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yar

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /j??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /j??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?aren, ?urren, ?eorren, from Old English ?eorran, ?irran, gyrran (to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate), from Proto-Germanic *gerran? (to creak), from Proto-Indo-European *g?er- (to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble). Cognate with Scots yarr, yirr (to snarl, growl, quarrel, cause trouble), Middle High German girren (to roar, cry, rattle, chatter).

Alternative forms

  • yarr

Verb

yar (third-person singular simple present yars, present participle yarring, simple past and past participle yarred)

  1. (intransitive) To snarl; to gnar.
  2. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain.

Adjective

yar (comparative more yar, superlative most yar)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Sour; brackish.
Derived terms
  • yarrish

Etymology 3

From Middle English yar, ?ar, variants of yare, ?are, from Old English ?earu (ready), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Alternative forms

  • yare

Adjective

yar (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

  1. (nautical, of a vessel, especially sailboat) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
    • 1390 J. Gower, Confessio Amantis II. 237
      The wynd was good, the Schip was yare.
    • 1939, The Philadelphia Story written by Philip Barry
      My, she was yar...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.
    • 1958, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
      ...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.
    • 1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06
      Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.
Synonyms
  • yare

Anagrams

  • -ary, Ary, Ayr, RYA, Ray, ary, ayr, ra'y, ray, rya, ? ray, ?-ray

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ???? (yâr).

Noun

yar (definite accusative yar?, plural yarlar)

  1. (poetic) beloved, sweetheart
  2. (dated) friend
  3. (dated) helper

Declension


Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yar? (compare Welsh iâr).

Noun

yar f (plural yer)

  1. hen

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yar? (compare Welsh iâr).

Noun

yar f (plural yer)

  1. chicken, hen

Derived terms


Kalasha

Noun

yar

  1. friend

Synonyms

  • dus
  • dust
  • malgiri
  • raphek
  • yardus

Middle English

Determiner

yar

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of þeir

Somali

Adjective

yar

  1. small

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Jahr (year).

Noun

yar

  1. year
    Synonym: yia
  2. Pleiades
  3. a kind of tree (Casuarina sp.) (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

  • Murphy, John J. (1985) The Book of Pidgin English = Buk Bilong Tok Pisin, revised edition, Robert Brown & Associates, ?ISBN, page 110
  • Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008) Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, ?ISBN, page 123

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (yar, precipice), from Old Turkic y?r ("steep slope"), from Proto-Turkic *y?r (precipice, steep bank). More at ??.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ja?/

Noun

yar (definite accusative yar?, plural yarlar)

  1. cliff, scarp, precipice

Declension

Synonyms
  • uçurum

References

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ja?/

Verb

yar

  1. imperative of yarmak

Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (y?r, friend, a beloved friend, one's lover), from Persian ???? (yâr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ja??/

Noun

yar (definite accusative yari, plural yarlar)

  1. beloved; lover
  2. friend

Declension

  • Before consonantal endings, the stem vowel is pronounced short and the endings themselves have back vowels. In the accusative, dative, and genitive singular, the stem vowel is pronounced long and the endings accordingly take front vowels. The declension is thus irregular:
Singular: nom. yar — acc. yari — dat. yare — loc. yarda — abl. yardan — gen. yarin
Plural: nom. yarlar — acc. yarlar? — dat. yarlara — loc. yarlarda — abl. yarlardan — gen. yarlar?n

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par

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations

Noun

par

  1. Abbreviation of paragraph.
  2. Abbreviation of parenthesis.
  3. Abbreviation of parish.

Adjective

par

  1. Abbreviation of parallel.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French par (through, by), from Latin per (through). Doublet of per.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /p??/, [p???], [p???]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Preposition

par

  1. By; with.
Usage notes
  • Used frequently in Middle English in phrases taken from French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin p?r (equal).

Noun

par (plural pars)

  1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  2. Equality of condition or circumstances.
  3. (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
  4. (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
  5. (Britain) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
Coordinate terms

(golf score):

  • buzzard
  • bogey
  • birdie
  • eagle
  • albatross
  • condor
  • ostrich
Derived terms

Verb

par (third-person singular simple present pars, present participle parring, simple past and past participle parred)

  1. (transitive, golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

Etymology 4

Noun

par (plural pars)

  1. Alternative form of parr (young salmon)

Anagrams

  • APR, ARP, Apr, Apr., Arp, PRA, RAP, RPA, Rap, apr, arp, rap

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese para.

Preposition

par

  1. for

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin p?re?. Compare Daco-Romanian p?rea, par.

Alternative forms

  • paru, ampar, apar, aparu

Verb

par (past participle pãrutã)

  1. I seem, appear.
Derived terms
  • pãreari / pãreare
  • pãrut
See also
  • undzescu

Etymology 2

From Latin p?lus. Compare Daco-Romanian par.

Alternative forms

  • paru

Noun

par

  1. stake
Related terms
  • mpar

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish par (pair).

Noun

par

  1. pair

Danish

Etymology 1

From late Old Danish par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin p?r.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?p??]
  • Rhymes: -ar

Noun

par n (singular definite parret, plural indefinite par)

  1. pair
  2. couple
Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English par.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?p???]

Noun

par c

  1. (golf) par (the allotted number of strokes to reach the hole)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?p???]

Verb

par

  1. imperative of parre

Faroese

Etymology

From late Old Norse par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin p?r.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??a??/
  • Rhymes: -?a??

Noun

par n (genitive singular pars, plural pør)

  1. pair

Declension


French

Etymology

From Middle French par, from Old French par, from Latin per, from Proto-Indo-European *peri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?/
  • Homophones: pars, part
  • Rhymes: -a?

Preposition

par

  1. through
  2. by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction))
  3. over (used to express direction)
  4. from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement)
  5. around, round (inside of)
  6. on (situated on, used in certain phrases)
  7. on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs)
  8. in
  9. per, a, an
  10. out of (used to describe the reason for something)
  11. for

Derived terms

  • de par
  • par ici
  • par là

Descendants

  • ? English: par

Noun

par m (plural pars)

  1. (golf) par

Further reading

  • “par” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • rap

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin per.

Preposition

par

  1. for
  2. through
  3. by

Gabrielino-Fernandeño

Alternative forms

  • paar /pa?r/, pa'r
  • paara'

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

par

  1. water

References

  • Kroeber, Shoshonean Dialects of California, in University of California Publications: American archaeology and ethnology, volume 4, page 81
  • HG

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p?a?r/
  • Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German par, from Latin p?r (equal).

Noun

par n (genitive singular pars, nominative plural pör)

  1. pair
  2. a couple, two people who are dating
  3. (poker) pair
Declension
Synonyms
  • (pair): tvenna

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English par.

Noun

par n (genitive singular pars, no plural)

  1. (golf) par
Declension

Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Portuguese para, from Old Portuguese pera, from Latin per (through) + ad (to).

Preposition

par

  1. (Diu) to (indicates indirect object)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, []
      The youngest one told (literally: said to) his father []
  2. (Diu) for (indicates subject of an infinitive)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:
      Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to regale ourselves:

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin per.

Preposition

par

  1. for
  2. through

Kaqchikel

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pahay.

Noun

par

  1. skunk

References

  • Brown, R. McKenna; Maxwell, Judith M.; Little, Walter E. (2006) ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 237
  • Ruyán Canú, Déborah; Coyote Tum, Rafael; Munson L., Jo Ann (1991) Diccionario cakchiquel central y español?[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano de Centroamérica, page 180

Latin

Etymology

Unclear. A traditional reconstruction is Proto-Indo-European *perH- (exchange), comparing Ancient Greek ??????? (pérn?mi) etc. and Lithuanian pirkti; but this accounts badly for the /a(?)/. Others refrain from assigning an Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pa?r/, [pä?r]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /par/, [p?r]

Adjective

p?r (genitive paris, comparative parior, superlative parissimus, adverb pariter); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. even (of a number)
  2. equal
  3. like
  4. suitable

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

  • aequus
  • similis

Latvian

Preposition

par (with accusative)

  1. about, on
  2. than
  3. for (price)
  4. as

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French par.

Conjunction

par

  1. by (introduces an agent)
    • .

Descendants

  • French: par
    • ? English: par

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From *p- + *ar-, cognate with Avestan ????????????????-? (y?r?-, year), English year, all from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?r- (year).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p???/

Noun

par f

  1. share, part

Noun

par f

  1. last year

Adverb

par

  1. last year

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

par n (definite singular paret, indefinite plural par, definite plural para or parene)

  1. a pair
  2. a couple
  3. a few (determiner)

Derived terms

  • brudepar
  • ektepar
  • kongepar
  • parvis

Noun

par n

  1. (golf, uncountable) par

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??r/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin paria (equals), neuter plural of p?r. Akin to English pair.

Noun

par n (definite singular paret, indefinite plural par, definite plural para)

  1. a pair
  2. a couple
  3. a few (determiner)
Derived terms
  • brudepar
  • ektepar
  • kongepar
  • parvis

Etymology 2

From English par

Noun

par n

  1. (golf, uncountable) par

References

  • “par” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin per.

Conjunction

par

  1. by; via (introduces a medium)
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
      Tost m'oceïst par son orguel.
      Soon, he killed with his pride.
  2. because of; due to (introduces a medium)
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
      Premiers sont au mostier venu,
      La furent par devocion
      The first ones came to the minster,
      they were there to pray
  3. by
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
      L'une a l'autre par la main prise,
      They took each other by the hand
  4. by; through; across
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
      Li cheval par le chanp s'an fuient.
      The horses fled through the field
  5. by (introduces an exclamation)
    • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide
      "Sire, par Deu et par sa croiz!
      "Sire! By God and by his cross!"
  6. in (at a location)

Descendants

  • Middle French: par
    • French: par
      • ? English: par
  • Lorrain: poir
  • Picard: per

Phalura

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /par/

Adverb

par (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

  1. suddenly

Alternative forms

  • pras

References

  • Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /par/

Noun

par

  1. genitive plural of para
  2. genitive plural of pary

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese par, from Latin p?r (equal, like), from Proto-Indo-European *per (exchange).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?pa?/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /?pa?/
  • Hyphenation: par

Noun

par m (plural pares)

  1. pair
  2. partner
  3. couple
  4. peer
  5. (golf) par

Derived terms

  • grupo de pares

Adjective

par m or f (plural pares, not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) even
    Antonym: impar

Related terms

  • díspar
  • ímpar
  • paridade

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin p?lus (stake), from Proto-Italic *p?kslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-slos, from *peh??-.

Noun

par m (plural pari)

  1. stake
Related terms
  • împ?ra
See also
  • ?eap?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin par.

Adjective

par m or n (feminine singular par?, masculine plural pari, feminine and neuter plural pare)

  1. (of an integer) even; divisible by two

Antonyms

  • impar

Etymology 3

Form of p?rea.

Verb

par

  1. first-person singular present indicative of p?rea
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of p?rea
  3. third-person plural present indicative of p?rea

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Paar, from Latin par (equal, like).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pâ?r/

Noun

p?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. pair, couple
  2. (informal) few, handful, several

Declension

Derived terms

  • p?ran

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pà?r/

Noun

pár m inan

  1. pair
  2. some, a couple (of)
  3. couple (two partners)
  4. (golf)) par
  5. (card games) (poker) pair

Inflection

Synonyms

  • (some): nekaj

See also

Further reading

  • par”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin p?r (equal, like), from Proto-Indo-European *per (exchange).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pa?/, [?pa?]

Adjective

par (plural pares)

  1. even (divisible by two)
    Antonym: impar

Derived terms

Noun

par m (plural pares)

  1. pair (two of the same or similar items that go together)
  2. couple (two of the same or similar items)
  3. (physics) two equal non-collinear forces; that is a force couple in Newtonian mechanics
  4. peer (somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal)
  5. some, a few

Noun

par f (plural pares)

  1. (finance) par (acceptable level)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • impar
  • parejo

Further reading

  • “par” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

par n

  1. a pair, a couple (either two or a few of something)
  2. a couple, two people who are dating

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

  • ? Finnish: pari

Anagrams

  • apr, rap

Tok Pisin

Noun

par

  1. stingray

Venetian

Alternative forms

  • paro
  • pèr

Etymology

From Latin p?r. Compare Italian paio.

Noun

par m (plural pari)

  1. pair

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

par c (plural parren, diminutive parke)

  1. pear

Further reading

  • “par”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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