solar

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊlə(ɹ)/, (Indic) /ˈsoːlɑː(ɾ)/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

solar (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun

   solar light

   solar rays

   solar influence

2. (astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     and proud beside, as solar people are

3. Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
4. Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid.

5. Employing solar power.

   a solar furnace

• sunly

English terms starting with “solar”

solar (uncountable)

1. solar energy
   • December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine‎^[1]:

     He’s a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds.

• day

From Middle English solar, soler; from a conflation of Old English soler, solere (“raised platform; loft, upper room, upper part of a house, soler”), from Latin sōlārium; and Old English solor, salor (“residence, dwelling; hall; palace”), from Proto-West Germanic *salaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *salaz, *salą (“house, room, hall”). More at sale.

solar (plural solars)

1. (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

• solar topee

• “solar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “solar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “solar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Loars, Losar, Rosal, Sarlo, Slora, orals, soral

Borrowed from Spanish solar (“ground, land”).

• IPA^(key): /soˈlaɾ/ [soˈl̪aɾ]
• Hyphenation: so‧lar

solár

1. property

   Synonym: propiyedad

2. land

   Synonym: daga

From sòl (“soil”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈlaɾ]

solar m (plural solars)

1. lot, plot (a distinct portion of land, usually smaller than a field)

• sòl

Borrowed from Latin sōlāris.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈlaɾ]

solar m or f (masculine and feminine plural solars)

1. (relational) sun; solar

• sol

From sòl (“soil; surface”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈlaɾ]

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solí, past participle solat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to pave
2. (transitive, fishing) to weigh down (rigging) (on the seabed or riverbed by means of stones or lead weights)

From sola (“sole”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈlaɾ]

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solí, past participle solat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to sole (to put a sole on a shoe or boot)

• ressolar

• “solar”, 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
• “solar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “solar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “solar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From sola (“sole”). Compare Portuguese solar.

• IPA^(key): /soˈlaɾ/

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solei, past participle solado)

1. (transitive) to sole
   • 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 76:

     Iten por solar calças, des et seis branquas et dous coroados.

     Item, for soling stockings, sixteen white coins and two crowns

• sola

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlāris.

• IPA^(key): /soˈlaɾ/

solar m or f (plural solares)

1. solar

• sol

• “solar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “solar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “solar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “solar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “solar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “solar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin sōlāris.

• IPA^(key): /zoˈlaːɐ̯/

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solar (strong nominative masculine singular solarer, not comparable)

1. solar

• “solar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “solar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsolar/ [ˈso.lar]
• Rhymes: -olar
• Syllabification: so‧lar

From Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

solar (comparative lebih solar, superlative paling solar)

1. solar, of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun

   Synonym: surya

Generic trademark of Pertamina's diesel fuel, which came from minyak solar, from Dutch solaarolie (cognate of Danish solarolie and Norwegian solarolje), from English solar oil. The association developed from the usage of such petroleum product as fuel for solar oil lamp. See also Russian солярка (soljarka) and German Solaröl.

solar (plural solar-solar)

1. diesel fuel

   Pertamina akan Ekspor Solar dan Avtur ― Pertamina will export diesel fuel and jet fuel.

• “solar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /suˈla/

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solar

1. solar

• IPA^(key): /suˈlar/

solar

1. solar

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlāris (“solar”), corresponding to sol +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: so‧lar

solar m or f (plural solares)

1. (astronomy) solar (relating to the Sun)
2. solar (relating to sunlight or solar energy)
3. (figurative) radiant (beaming with vivacity and happiness)

   Synonyms: radiante, jovial

From solo (“ground”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: so‧lar

solar m (plural solares)

1. mansion (large, luxurious house)

   Synonyms: mansão, palacete

From solo (“solo”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: so‧lar

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solei, past participle solado)

1. (music, intransitive or transitive) to solo (to play a solo)

From sola (“sole”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: so‧lar

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solei, past participle solado)

1. (sports, transitive) to hit someone with the sole of the shoe
2. (shoemaking, transitive) to sole (to put a sole on a shoe)

• “solar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “solar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “solar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “solar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “solar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “solar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French solaire, from Latin solaris.

• IPA^(key): /soˈlar/

solar m or n (feminine singular solară, masculine plural solari, feminine and neuter plural solare)

1. solar

   Synonym: soresc

• “solar”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

sòlār m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̀ла̄р)

1. bullary worker

• IPA^(key): /soˈlaɾ/ [soˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧lar

From suelo (“ground”), from Latin solum.

solar m (plural solares)

1. ground, land
2. house (of a family), noble lineage

   Synonym: casa

3. (Cuba) tenement house

   Synonym: casa de vecindad

solar (first-person singular present suelo, first-person singular preterite solé, past participle solado)

1. to pave
2. to sole a shoe

From Latin sōlāris (“solar”).

solar m or f (masculine and feminine plural solares)

1. solar

• “solar”, 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

solar

1. indefinite plural of sol

solar

1. present indicative of sola

• loars, sorla