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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

zap (plural zaps)

1. (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
2. (colloquial) An electric shock.

   You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.

3. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
   • 1998, Raymond A. Smith, Encyclopedia of AIDS

     Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.

   • 2011, Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (page 84)

     When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.

Translations

Verb

zap (third-person singular simple present zaps, present participle zapping, simple past and past participle zapped)

1. (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
2. To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.

   Synonyms: channel surf, channel hop

3. To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.

   They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.

4. (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
   • 1966, U.S. News & World Report (volume 61, page 32)

     Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]

5. To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.

   I think they zapped the processor.

6. To heat (something) in a microwave oven.

   If it's not warm in the middle; zap it some more.

7. To delete or discard (electronic media).

   They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.

8. To further energize or charge (magnetic material).

   They zapped my motor's magnets.

Descendants

Translations

Interjection

zap!

1. Representing the sound or action of a zap.

   Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

zap

1. first-person singular present indicative of zappen
2. imperative of zappen

Portuguese

Etymology

From the last part of "WhatsApp".

Noun

zap m (usually uncountable, plural zaps)

1. WhatsApp, the messaging service

English

Alternative forms

• zaar

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (z?r).

Noun

zar (uncountable)

1. A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.

Anagrams

• Raz

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Noun

zar ?

1. die

Crimean Tatar

Noun

zar

1. membrane

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Alternative forms

• tsar
• czar (common, but not official)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?r/, [s???]
• Rhymes: -a??r

Noun

zar c (singular definite zaren, plural indefinite zarer)

1. tsar, czar

Inflection

Related terms

• zarina c

Further reading

• zar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

zar m (plural zars)

1. A form of exorcism practised in Egypt

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?), via Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?sar?), from Proto-Slavic *c?sa??, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Cesare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sar/

Noun

zar m (invariable)

1. tsar, czar

Derived terms

• zarina
• zarismo
• zarista

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (z?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?zar/

Noun

zar m (invariable)

1. zar

Northern Kurdish

Noun

zar ?

1. word
2. language

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Noun

zar n (plural zaruri)

1. die

Declension

Further reading

• zar in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *zaže, from *za + *že.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâr/

Particle

z?r (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (auxiliary interrogative particle) used in tag questions, to ask for an affirmation to a polar question; don't, doesn't, isn't, aren’t, right

See also

• li (interrogative particle)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic ??????? (?iz?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâ?r/

Noun

z?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. curtain
2. yashmak
3. veil

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “cube, die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zâr/

Noun

z?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. die

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (car?); see it for more. Doublet of César (“Caesar”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??a?/, [??a?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sa?/, [?sa?]

Noun

zar m (plural zares)

1. tsar, czar

Related terms

• zarina f

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “die”), from Arabic ?????? (zahr, “, cube, die”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (téssera, “four”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (téssara, “four”)

Noun

zar (definite accusative zar?, plural zarlar)

1. die

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic ??????? (?iz?r).

Noun

zar (definite accusative zar?, plural zarlar)

1. membrane
2. diaphragm
3. film
4. skin

Turkmen

Noun

zar (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

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Volapük

Noun

zar (nominative plural zars)

1. tsar

Declension