Gar

From Tibetan སྒར (sgar).

Gar

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1972, Kao Yuan-ching, “Changes on the Ari Plateau”, in Great Changes in Tibet [西藏巨变]‎^[1], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

     No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.

   • 1994, Graham E. Clarke, “The Movement of Population to the West of China; Tibet and Qinghai”, in Judith M. Brown, Rosemary Foot, editors, Migration: The Asian Experience‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 242, 255:

     The figures indicate that Han peoples form 12 per cent of the registered residents of Gar county, and that Tibetans are 87.5 per cent of the county and 97.6 per cent of the prefecture.⁵⁸

     58. The total number of official residents listed in Ngari (A-li) prefecture is 61 639, with 1153 Han and 8212 Tibetan in Gar county.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ga'er
• (from Tibetan) Senge Tsangpo

• Gra, grá, Arg., RAG, Rag, RGA, rag, ARG, arg, agr-, arg.

From Middle High German and Old High German garn, from Proto-West Germanic *garn.

Cognate with German Garn, Dutch garen, English yarn, Icelandic garn.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːr/, [ɡaː(ʀ)]
• Rhymes: -aːʀ
• Homophone: Gare

Gar n (plural Garen)

1. yarn