Star

• As a German and Jewish surname, from Star (“starling”).
• Also as a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Stern (“star”).
• As a Dutch surname, from star (“stiff, rigid”).
• As a Slovene surname, from star (“old”).
• As an English given name, from star, sometimes originating as a nickname.

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Star

1. A surname.
2. A female given name from English.
   • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Emily Starr Series; All Three Novels: Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:

     Emily Byrd Starr — Starr should be your first name. You look like a star—you have a radiant sort of personality shining through you— ... I think I shall call you Star.

   • 2019 February 7, Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 11, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Stella was always an original. I don't think she went on to university but I'm sure she's doing something interesting with her life. She calls herself Star now.

3. A hamlet in Lamont County, Alberta, Canada.
4. A hamlet in Shipham civil parish, Somerset, England.
5. A work settlement in the Dyatkovsky District, Bryansk Oblast, Russia.
6. A village in the Maryovsky District, Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
7. A small village in Fife council area, Scotland, also known as Star of Markinch.
8. A city in Idaho.
9. An unincorporated community in Munising Township, Alger County, Michigan.
10. An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
11. An unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska.
12. A small town in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
13. An unincorporated community in Mills County, Texas.
14. A hamlet in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
15. A small settlement near the village of Gaerwen, Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
16. (UK, rail transport) Star class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR.

• tars, sart, ARTS, arts., 'rats, tsar, tars-, ARTs, rats, Sart, srat, Srta., RATs, RAST, Arts, stra., Srta, arts, astr-, TSRA, RTAs, TRAs

From Middle High German star, stare, from Old High German stara, staro, star, from Proto-West Germanic *star.

Cognate with Middle Dutch sterre, Middle Low German stār(e), Old English stær, Old Norse stari, and further with Latin sturnus.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtaːr/, [ʃtaː(ɐ̯)], [ʃtaːʁ]

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• Homophone: starr (some speakers)

Star m (strong or weak, genitive Stars or Stares or (archaic) Staren, plural Stare or (archaic) Staren)

1. starling

• Weak singular declension is now rare and archaic. The plural Staren remains slightly more common, but much less common than Stare.

• Staar (superseded)

• Starenkasten
• Starenjunges

16th-century backformation from now archaic starblind, staarblind, from Middle High German star(e)blint, from Old High German starablint (“blind or highly vision-impaired but having normal-looking eyes”). The meaning is interpreted as "blind with cloudy eyes." The first element is from *starēn (“to stare, gaze, be fixed upon”) and second element is from *blind (“blind”).^[1]

Compare Middle Dutch staerblint, Old English stæreblind. Related with starren, English stare.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtaːr/, [ʃtaː(ɐ̯)], [ʃtaːʁ]

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• Homophone: starr (some speakers)

Star m (strong, genitive Stars or Stares, plural Stare)

2. (pathology) cataract (an eye disease, leucoma)

• Staar, Stahr (superseded)

• grauer Star
• grüner Star

• jemandem den Star stechen

• → Danish: stær (“cataract”)

19th century, from English star. Doublet of Aster and Stern.

• IPA^(key): /staːr/, [staː(ɐ̯)], [staːʁ]
• IPA^(key): /ʃtaːr/ (less common)

Star m (strong, genitive Stars, plural Stars)

1. celebrity, star

   Synonyms: Prominenter, Berühmter, Berühmtheit, Sternchen

• “Star” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Star” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Star” in Duden online
• “Star” in Duden online