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atar (plural atars)

1. Alternative spelling of attar

• A.A.R.T., ATRA, Arta, Tara, Tārā, rata, ta-ra, tara

From Latin aptāre, present active infinitive of aptō.

atar (first-person singular indicative present ato, past participle atáu)

1. to attach, tie, tie up

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin aptāre, present active infinitive of aptō.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtaɾ/ [aˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite atei, past participle atado)

1. to tie, bind, fasten

   Synonyms: amarrar, lear

   Antonym: desatar

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

2. to repair a fishing net

• “atar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “atar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “atar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “atar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “atar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “atar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

atar (first-person possessive atarku, second-person possessive atarmu, third-person possessive atarnya)

1. perfume

Borrowed from English attar, from Persian عطر ('ater, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume, scent; essence, attar”).

atar m (genitive singular atair)

1. attar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

atar

1. present indicative/present subjunctive/imperative autonomous of at

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “atar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Spanish, from Latin aptāre, present active infinitive of aptō.

atar (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אטאר)

1. to tie

atar

1. inflection of atart:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of atart
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of atart

From Arabic أَثَر (ʔaṯar).

• IPA^(key): (singular) /ˈa.tar/, (plural) /aˈtaːr/

atar m (plural atar)

1. trace
2. footstep

atar m pl (singulative eterin)

1. bird

• Middle Welsh: adar
  • Welsh: adar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin aptāre. Doublet of aptar, a later borrowing.

• Hyphenation: a‧tar

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite atei, past participle atado)

1. to tie, tie up

• atilho
• atadura
• desatar
• reatar

• apto

• “atar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• hȁtār

Borrowed from Hungarian határ.

• IPA^(key): /âtaːr/
• Hyphenation: a‧tar

ȁtār m (Cyrillic spelling а̏та̄р)

1. region, district, area, land
2. (transitive) area within one's jurisdiction

• “atar” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin aptāre. Doublet of aptar, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtaɾ/ [aˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tar

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite até, past participle atado)

1. (transitive) to tie, tie up, tie down, to tether (secure (something) by rope or the like)

   Synonyms: amarrar, ligar

   Antonym: desatar

2. (transitive) to constrain, limit (prevent or remove movement, leave (someone or something) without freedom of movement or ability to act)

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

atar

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of atmak