saar

• IPA^(key): /saːɾ/

saar (plural saars)

1. (India) Pronunciation spelling of sir.
   • 1979, Indira Parthasarathy, translated by Ka. Naa. Subramanyam, River of Blood (Kuruthipunal), 2nd edition, New Delhi: Wikas Publishing House, page 17:

     The server did not look at him but watching the outer door he asked him "What do you want saar?"

   • 1997, Shashi Tharoor, “Scheduled Castes, Unscheduled Change”, in India: From Midnight to the Millennium, New York: Arcade Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 100:

     "Yes saar. Yes, saar." he said, perspiring. "No saar. Not long. Yes, saar. At once, saar."

2. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) an Indian person

From Proto-Finnic *saari.

saar (genitive saare, partitive saart)

1. island (an area of land totally surrounded by water)

From Proto-Finnic *sarni. Cognate to Finnish saarni and Eastern Mari шертне (šertńe, “willow”).

saar (genitive saare, partitive saart)

1. ash (tree)

• aras
• raas
• sara

saar

1. inflection of saart:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of saart
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of saart

From Old Norse sár.

saar n

1. wound

• Danish: sår

saar

1. put, place