pendar

Albanian

Etymology

According to Orel, sense 1 is an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic *pǫdarь.[1] For sense 2 and sense 3, derived from pendë (plough animals yoked together) + -ar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /penˈdaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: pen‧dár

Noun

pendar m (plural pendarë, definite pendari, definite plural pendarët)

  1. watchman
    Synonyms: bekçi, rojtar
  2. (historical) sharecropper, tenant farmer
    Synonym: çifçi
  3. ploughing oxen rider; ploughman

Declension

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pendar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 315

Further reading

  • “pendar”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
  • pendar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto pendi, from English pend, French pendre, Italian pendere, Spanish pender, from Latin pendere, present active infinitive of pendō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pen.ˈdar/, /pɛn.ˈdaɾ/

Verb

pendar (present tense pendas, past tense pendis, future tense pendos, imperative pendez, conditional pendus)

  1. (intransitive) to hang down, suspend, hang, dangle
    Ka vu ja pendis nia nova lampo de la plafono?
    Have you already hung our new lampo from the ceiling?
  2. (transitive) hang up
    Mea papa pendis fotografuro de me en la salono.
    My dad hung a photograph of me in the living room.
  3. (transitive) to hang somebody using a gibbet or a cord in order to kill him/her by strangulation

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (2) akrochar

Antonyms

  • despendar

Derived terms

  • pendanta (aweigh, dependent)
  • pendito (hung)
  • pendajo (hang, dependent, wattle, bob)
  • pendigar (to suspend, hang)

Latin

Verb

pendar

  1. first-person singular future passive indicative of pendō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek πεντάρα (pentára).

Noun

pendar m (plural pendari)

  1. (obsolete) a coin worth five para or five lei

Declension

References

  • pendar in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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