تار

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

Khalaj

Adjective

تار (târ)

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

Persian

Pronunciation

 

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

Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *temH-
    Proto-Indo-European *-os
    Proto-Indo-European *témHos
    Proto-Indo-European *-rós
    Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHsram
    Persian تار

    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. Cognate to tantra.

      Noun

      تار • (târ) (plural تارها)

      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
      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 تَار (tār). First attested in c. 1657 as Middle Hindi تار (tar /⁠tār⁠/).[1]

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        تار • (tār) m (Hindi spelling तार)

        1. cord, wire
        2. (technology) cable
        3. (dated) telegraph
        4. string, thread
        5. (music) cord, wire (of an instrument)

        Declension

        Declension of تار
        singular plural
        direct تار (tār) تار (tār)
        oblique تار (tār) تاروں (tārõ)
        vocative تار (tār) تارو (tāro)

        References

        1. ^ “تار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

        Further reading

        • “تار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
        • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “تار”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

        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, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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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