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English

Etymology

Compare French vari.

Noun

vari (plural varis)

1. (archaic) The ring-tailed lemur.

Anagrams

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vair, vira

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Norse [script needed] (*warj?n). Cognates include Swedish värja, Danish værge and Finnish varjo.

Noun

vari (genitive varju, partitive varju)

1. shadow
2. shade

Declension

Finnish

Noun

vari

1. hot weather
2. (rare) shadow

Declension

Synonyms

• helle

Anagrams

• Arvi, ravi

Icelandic

Noun

vari

1. indefinite dative singular of var

Ido

Noun

vari

1. plural of varo: wares, commodities, goods; merchandize

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

varî (alternative spelling vari)

1. masculine plural of vario

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

varî m (alternative spelling vari)

1. plural of vario

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

vari m

1. plural of varo

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vari

1. inflection of varare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular present subjunctive
   5. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vari

1. inflection of variare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular present subjunctive
   5. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• riva, vira

Latin

Adjective

v?r?

1. inflection of v?rus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

References

• vari in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vari in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Latvian

Verb

vari

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of var?t
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of var?t

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Related to varr (“aware, wary”).

Noun

vari m

1. wariness

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *h?wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see the Latin river Avara.

Noun

vari m

1. the watery substance of the blood

References

• vari in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vari in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic?^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 231

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vari/

Adjective

vari

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vari (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of var

Verb

vari (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of variti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish

Adverb

vari (not comparable)

1. wherein

Anagrams

• Ivar, riva, vira

Võro

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian vari, Finnish varjo.

Noun

vari (genitive var'o, partitive varjo)

1. shadow

Declension

English

Noun

vars

1. plural of var

Anagrams

• ARVs, VRSA, ravs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fars/

Adjective

vars (attributive varse, comparative varser, superlative varste)

1. fresh

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *varci. Cognate with Finnish varsi.

Noun

vars (genitive varre, partitive vart)

1. stalk
2. shaft

Inflection

Derived terms

• käsivars

Icelandic

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive singular of var

Latgalian

Noun

vars m

1. copper

Romanian

Verb

vars

1. first-person singular present indicative of v?rsa
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa

Swedish

Etymology 1

From an older interrogative adverb hvarest (“whereto, whither”), see varest, from Old Swedish hvaris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]
• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Adverb

vars

1. (dialectal, Northern Sweden) where

Usage notes

• Used both with motion and direction, where standard Swedish would use var and vart, respectively.

Etymology 2

Clipping of bevars, itself a contraction of (Gud) bevare oss (”may God save us”), from the present subjunctive of bevara (“to save, to keep”), and oss (“us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Interjection

vars

1. (colloquial) Added to an answering interjection to signify that the answer does not have full validity

Etymology 3

See main entry var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive plural of var
2. indefinite genitive singular of var

Etymology 4

• (relative pronoun) From Old Swedish hvars, genitive of hvar (“which, every”).
• (distributive pronoun) From a reanalysis of varsin, varsitt (“one each”) (from var +? sin, sitt) as consisting of vars + en, ett (“one”) and then expanded to further numerals, e.g. vars två (”two each”), standard Swedish två var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun, distributive pronoun) /v??rs/, [v???], [v???s]
• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun) /vars/, [va?]

Pronoun

vars

1. (relative pronoun) whose (of whom)
2. (distributive pronoun, dialectal, Scania) each

Usage notes

• Not used as an interrogative pronoun, in which case vems (singular) or vilkas (plural) is used.
• The use of vars with a plural referent was earlier proscribed in favour of vilkas, but is now accepted, e.g.:

References

• vars in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vars in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Vars. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 21 October 2013.

Anagrams

• arvs, sarv, svar