ciar

From Old Irish cíar (“dark”), from Proto-Celtic *keiros, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃i-, extension of *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Further cognates are Old Novgorodian хѣрь (xěrĭ, “gray cloth”) and Old English hār (“grey-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /ciəɾˠ/
• Homophone: cíor (one pronunciation of cíor)

ciar (genitive singular masculine céir, genitive singular feminine céire, plural ciara, comparative céire)

1. swarthy, dark

• ciardhubh (“jet black, sable”)
• ciaróg (“beetle”)

• Ciarán

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

ciar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of ciō

From Old Irish cíar (“dark”), from Proto-Celtic *keiros, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃i-, extension of *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Further cognates are Old Novgorodian хѣрь (xěrĭ, “gray cloth”) and Old English hār (“grey-haired”).

• IPA^(key): /cʰiaɾ/

ciar (comparative nas cèire / na bu chèire)

1. swarthy, dark, dun, dusky
2. gloomy, depressed.

• ciarag

Probably from Old Spanish cía (“thighbone”), referring to the use of this bone when rowing, from Latin scias, from Ancient Greek ἰσχιας (iskhias, “sciatic”), from ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjaɾ/ [ˈθjaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjaɾ/ [ˈsjaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ciar

ciar (first-person singular present cío, first-person singular preterite cie, past participle ciado)

1. (intransitive) to back water

• “ciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024