avar

Blend of animation +‎ variable

avar (plural avars)

1. (animation) an animation variable

• vara, Vara, VARA, arva

• IPA^(key): [ɑˈvɑr]

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avar (definite accusative avarı, plural avarlar)

1. oar, paddle, scull

   Synonym: kürək

   avar çəkmək ― to row, to scull

avar (definite accusative avarı, plural avarlar)

1. an Avar

• “avar” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from Latin avārus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈvar]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈvar]

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avar m or f (masculine and feminine plural avars)

1. greedy, avaricious

   Synonyms: avariciós, cobdiciós

2. stingy, miserly

   Synonyms: gasiu, mesquí

• avarícia

• “avar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “avar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “avar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “avar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin habēre.

avar (past participle avoit)

1. (Vegliot) to have

From Proto-Finnic *avara.

avar

1. ample

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒvɒr]

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• Hyphenation: avar
• Rhymes: -ɒr

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric stem as avul +‎ -r (obsolete noun-forming suffix). For the -r ending, compare tompor, hunyor, sömör, fodor.^[1]

avar (plural avarok)

1. leaf litter (layer of fallen dry leaves on the ground)

   Synonym: levéltakaró

From Medieval Latin Avari, Avares. First attested in 1559.

avar (not comparable)

1. Avar (of or relating to the Avar language or people)

avar (countable and uncountable, plural avarok)

1. Avar (people)
2. Avar (language)

• (fallen leaves): avar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (Avar people or their language): avar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• avar in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

avar m (uncountable)

1. Avar (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan)

avar m or f by sense (plural avares)

1. a member of the Avar people

avar m or f (plural avares)

1. Avar (belonging or relating to the Avar people)

Borrowed from French avare, from Latin avarus.

avar m (plural avari, feminine equivalent avară)

1. miser
2. greedy

   Synonym: zgârcit

avar

1. present indicative of ava

• vara

avar (Cyrillic авар)

1. oar, paddle, scull

   avari kəşe ― to row, to scull

• Pirejko, L. A. (1976) “авар”, in Talyšsko-russkij slovarʹ [Talysh–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 20

From Proto-Finnic *avara. Cognates include Finnish avara.

avar

1. spacious, vast

• avare

From Middle English afor, afore, from Old English onforan or ætforan.

• IPA^(key): /aˈvar/
• IPA^(key): /aˈvaːr/^[1]

avar ^[2]

1. before
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, pages 100^[2]:

     Ayenst zim vartful ropeare at a rumcht ouse avar.

     Against some wanton ranter that has raved (at) us before.

   • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 2^[3]:

     Thaay heighed upa Buckeen twi hours avar dawn,

     They mounted on Buckeen two hours before dawn.