tar

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɑɹ/, [tʰɑɻ], [tʰɑɹ]

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• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /tæːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

PIE word
*dóru

From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą (compare Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”)), from *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.

tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)

2. (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
   2. Coal tar.
   3. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
4. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

   Synonyms: Jack Tar, Jack tar, jacktar, jack

   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough‎^[2]:

     Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     a ruminating tar was […] adorning [the wooden settle] with his jack-knife, […] trying his hand at a ship under full sail.

   • 1915, W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald:

     If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar.

6. (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

1. (transitive) To coat with tar.
2. (transitive) To besmirch.

   The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.

   • 1995, Paul Robinson, The Gate Contracts:

     Dr. Sign: In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know why
     Dr. Ellsworth: Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.

• tar and feather
• tar out
• tar with the same brush, tar with the same stick (dated)

Abbreviation of tape archive.

tar (plural tars)

1. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
2. (computing) A file produced by such a program.

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

1. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.

• untar

• untar

From Persian تار (târ). Doublet of tantra.

• tār

tar (plural tars)

2. A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

From Arabic طار (ṭār).

tar (plural tars)

1. A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

• Appendix:Glossary of membranophones

• 2001. Drum Circle: A Guide to World Percussion. Chalo Eduardo, Frank Kumor. Pg. 18.

tar (plural tars)

1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).

• RAT, TRA, ART, ATR, art, RTA, rat, Rat, rta, Art, tra, 'rat, 'art, art.

tar m (plural tari)

1. donkey

• gumar/yumar, shonj/shonjiu, cãci, tãronj/tãroanji, uci, uricljat, dãnglãrã, dãngã

• tãronj

Ultimately from Latin stāre. Compare Spanish estar, Aragonese estar, Galician estar, Portuguese estar, Catalan estar.

tar

1. to be (referring to geographical place)
2. to be (referring to something temporary)
3. to be (for use in constructing continuous verb forms)

   tas xugando ― you are playing

• Reference: http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

• ser

Borrowed from Persian تار (târ).

• IPA^(key): [tɑr]

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tar (definite accusative tarı, plural tarlar)

1. tar

Borrowing from an Oghur language, before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries),^[1] from Proto-Turkic *tāŕ (“bald”). Cognates include Turkish dazlak (“bald”), Karakhanid تازْ (tāz, “bald”), and Middle Mongol [script needed] (tarasun, “bald”), the latter perhaps a Turkic borrowing too.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒr]

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• Rhymes: -ɒr

tar (not comparable)

1. bald

   Synonym: kopasz

• tarol

• tar 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.

• IPA^(key): /tar/
• Hyphenation: tar
• Rhymes: -tar, -ar, -r

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tar (plural tar-tar)

1. alternative spelling of tir (chess pieces)

Onomatopoeic.

tar (plural tar-tar)

1. (onomatopoeic) whipping sound

From Dutch taart, from Middle Dutch tāerte, from Old French tarte.

tar (plural tar-tar)

1. (cooking) a type of cake

   Synonym: kue tar

• tart [tat] (Standard Malay)

From English tar, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-. Doublet of ter and tir.

tar (plural tar-tar)

1. tar, the solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke

Other definition of tar translated into ter or tir.

tar (plural tar-tar)

1. (colloquial) aphetic form of sebentar

• “tar” 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.

From Old Irish do·icc. The imperative is from a related verb, do·airicc.

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠaɾˠ/

tar (present analytic tagann, future analytic tiocfaidh, verbal noun teacht, past participle tagtha)

1. to come

   Tiocfaidh ár lá.

   Our day will come.

2. to survive, pull through

   Bhí a ndeartháir ar leaba an bháis, ach tháinig sé.

   Their brother was on his deathbed, but he pulled through.

   Bádh a hathair agus tháinig a máthair.

   Her father drowned and her mother survived.

Forms based on the stem tig- (e.g. tigim and tig/tigeann) are found in Ulster, North Mayo and parts of Munster; in at least some of these varieties there may also be spontaneous lenition to thig etc. even in environments where no lenition is expected. Forms based on the stem teag- (e.g. teagaim, teagann) are found in parts of Connacht.

The present analytic tig is particularly common in tar le (“be able”).

The obsolete present subjunctive tí is now found only in the preposition go dtí (“to, toward, up to, until”).

Alternative forms of the second-person singular imperative include tair in Munster, teighre in Aran, teara in Connemara, and gabh in Ulster.

From Proto-Turkic *t(i)ār.

tar

1. narrow

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “tar”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *t(i)ār.

tar

1. narrow

• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “тар”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

From Arabic طَارَ (ṭāra).

• IPA^(key): /taːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

tar (imperfect jtir, verbal noun tajran)

1. to fly
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Fil-Ġnien”, in Fl-Arena:

     Ta’ ferħ u serħ imlietni, u bħall-għasafar
     u l-friefet jien għamilt: minn fjur għal fjur
     ħsiebi tar bħal farfett, taħt siġra kbira
     qalbi fesdqet il-għana bħal għasfur.

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2. to be quick

From Old Irish do·icc.

tar (verbal noun çheet, simple past haink, future hig, conditional harragh)

1. to come

   Haink ee er etlan.

   She came by plane.

• tar er-ash (“return”)

tar

1. alternative form of tare (“vetch”)

tar

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) alternative form of þeir

tar

1. present of ta

tar

1. present of ta

• dar

From Proto-Celtic *taras, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂és, from the root *terh₂- (“to cross”).^[1]

The voiced variant dar is the original one, since *t in proclitics regularly became d in Old Irish. Tar with a voiceless initial consonant is analogical after its conjugated forms.^[2]

tar (with accusative)

1. over, across

Forms combined with the definite article:

• tarsin (masculine/feminine singular)
• tarsa (neuter singular)
• tarsna (plural all genders)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• tarm(u), darm (first person singular)
• t(a)ra, dara (third person)

Forms combined with a possessive pronoun:

• tar(s)a·, dara·

• tar cenn
• tairm-

• Irish: thar
• Manx: har, harrish
• Scottish Gaelic: thar

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, §§ 434, 854; reprinted 2017
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 150

Inherited from Sanskrit तॄ (tṝ).

tar (Pali name tara)

1. to cross

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: tar

tar f

1. genitive plural of tara

• tá (Brazil)

• Rhymes: -aɾ

tar

1. (Portugal) nonstandard spelling of estar
   • 1983, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Romanceiro da Ilha de São Jorge, Universidade de Coimbra, page 236:

     Eu tou aqui nesta serra

     I’m here in this mountain chain

Borrowed from Hungarian tár.

tar m (plural taruri)

1. unit of measurement for weights

tar

1. romanization of 𒋻 (tar)

tar

1. present indicative of ta

• art

From Middle English tar, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru.

• IPA^(key): /tar/

tar

1. tar
   • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 10:

     Aal haar, an wi eyen lik torches o tar?"

     "All hair, and with eyes like torches of tar,"

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[3], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132