تار

See also: باژ, باز, تاز, بار, پار, ثأر, and ثار

Khalaj

Adjective

تار (târ)

  1. Arabic spelling of târ (“narrow, tight”)

Persian

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɑːɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɑːɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɔːɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? tār
Dari reading? tār
Iranian reading? târ
Tajik reading? tor

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾr /⁠tār⁠/, “darkness”), from Proto-Iranian *támHsram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHsram, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-.

Cognate to Avestan 𐬙𐬄𐬚𐬭𐬀 (tąθra), Pashto تور (tor, “black”), Sanskrit तमिस्र (tamisra), Latin tenebrae.

Adjective

تار • (târ)

  1. dark; obscure; dim
    هوای تار ― havâ-ye târ ― dark sky; dark weather
  2. bleary; dim
  3. faint; unclear

Etymology 2

From Proto-Iranian *tánθram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tántram, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”); see there for further information.

Noun

تار • (târ) (plural تارها (târ-hâ))

  1. string; cord
    Synonym: رشته (rešte)
  2. warp
    Coordinate term: پود (pud)
  3. tar (a classical musical instrument of Persia)
Derived terms
  • تار عنکبوت (târ-e ankabut, “spiderweb”)
  • تار و پود (târ o pud, “warp and weft; basic structure”)
Descendants
  • → English: tar
  • → Hindi: तार (tār)
  • → Armenian: թառ (tʻaṙ)
  • → Uyghur: تار (tar)

South Levantine Arabic
Root
ت و ر
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic ثَارَ (ṯāra).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taːr/, [tɑːrˤ]
  • Audio (al-Lidd)(file)

Verb

تار • (tār) I (present بتور (bitūr))

  1. to rebel, to revolt

Conjugation
    Conjugation of تار (tār)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m ترت (turt) ترت (turt) تار (tār) ترنا (turna) ترتو (turtu) تارو (tāru)
f ترتي (turti) تارت (tārat)
present m بتور (batūr) بتتور (bittūr) بتور (bitūr) منتور (mintūr) بتتورو (bittūru) بيتورو (bitūru)
f بتتوري (bittūri) بتتور (bittūr)
subjunctive m اتور (atūr) تتور (ttūr) يتور (ytūr) نتور (ntūr) تتورو (ttūru) يتورو (ytūru)
f تتوري (ttūri) تتور (ttūr)
imperative m تور (tūr) تورو (tūru)
f توري (tūri)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تار (târ).

Pronunciation

Noun

تار • (tār) m (Hindi spelling तार)

  1. cord, wire
  2. string
  3. telegraph

Declension
Declension of تار
singular plural
direct تار (tār) تار (tār)
oblique تار (tār) تاروں (tārō̃)
vocative تار (tār) تارو (tārō)

References
  • “تار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “تار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Uyghur

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɑr/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *tār.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish dar.

Adjective

تار • (tar)

  1. narrow, cramped
  2. tight, taut

Etymology 2

From Persian تار (târ)

Noun

تار • (tar) (plural تارلار (tarlar))

  1. string, cord

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ta:r”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 528
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*d(i)ār”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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