zar
English
Alternative forms
Noun
zar (uncountable)
- 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
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “die”), from Arabic زَهْر (zahr, “cube, die”).
Crimean Tatar
Declension
nominative | zar |
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genitive | zarnıñ |
dative | zarğa |
accusative | zarnı |
locative | zarda |
ablative | zardan |
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saːr/, [sɑːˀ]
- Rhymes: -aːˀr
Inflection
Related terms
- zarina c
Further reading
- zar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), via Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Cesare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡zar/, (traditional) */ˈt͡sar/[1]
- Rhymes: -ar
- Hyphenation: zàr
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡zar/
- Rhymes: -ar
- Hyphenation: zàr
References
- zar in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “die”), from Arabic زَهْر (zahr, “cube, die”).
Declension
Further reading
- zar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zaže, from *za + *že.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zâr/
Particle
zȁr (Cyrillic spelling за̏р)
- (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
- Zar ne zna to? ― Doesn’t he/she know that?
- Hladno je, zar ne? ― It’s cold, isn’t it?
- To i nije tako loša ideja, zar ne? ― That isn’t such a bad idea, right?
See also
- li (interrogative particle)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic إِزَار (ʔizār).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zâːr/
Declension
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zâr/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɾ/ [ˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsaɾ/ [ˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: zar
Further reading
- “zar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “die”), from Arabic زَهْر (zahr, “, cube, die”) from Ancient Greek τέσσερα (téssera, “four”) from Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρᾰ (téssara, “four”).
Etymology 2
From Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “wrap, membrane”), from Arabic إِزَار (ʔizār).
Turkmen
Noun
zar (definite accusative zary, plural zarlar)
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Declension
Further reading
- “zar” in Enedilim.com
Volapük
Yola
Verb
zar
- Alternative form of zarve (“serve”)
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
- Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,
- Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80 & 88