Tartar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

From Old French Tartaire, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (“Tartar, Mongol”), from Old Turkic 𐱃𐱃𐰺 (t¹t¹r¹) , spelling influenced by Latin Tartarus (“Hell (in Greek mythology)”), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

Tartar (plural Tartars)

1. Alternative spelling of Tatar.
2. A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
   • 1871, Henry Yule, transl., The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo, book 1, chapter 13:

     Persia is a great country, which was in old times very illustrious and powerful; but now the Tartars have wasted and destroyed it.

3. (figurative, dated) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
4. (figurative) A rough or violent event.
   • 2003, Erik Larson, “Alone”, in The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 106:

     I haven't escaped sickness all my life to get off easily now. […] I knew when my turn came, it would be a Tartar.

• Fish-skin Tartar

Tartar (comparative more Tartar, superlative most Tartar)

1. Of or relating to the people or culture of Tartars.

   Tartar customs

• Tartar maple (Acer tataricum)
• Tartary, Tartaria

From Armenian Թարթառ (Tʻartʻaṙ).

Tartar

1. One of the tributary rivers of the Kura, flowing through Artsakh and Azerbaijan.
2. A town in Azerbaijan located on this river.

Old French Tartar, from Medieval Latin Tartarus, alteration of Tatar, from a Turkic name. Influenced by Tartarus (“primeval god, underworld”).

Tartar m (plural Tartars)

1. Tartar (member of various Turkic tribes)

• French: Tartare

• Tartar on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Learned borrowing from Latin Tartarus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.tar/

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• Rhymes: -artar
• Syllabification: Tar‧tar

Tartar m inan

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tartarus (dark part of Hades)
2. (biblical, Christianity) Tartarus (Greek New Testament word used for Hell (in Christian belief), derived from the pagan Greek use)

Tartar m pers

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tartarus (primordial deity)

• Tartar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Tartar in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Latin Tartarus, from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

Tartar m

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tartarus