vari

Compare French vari.

vari (plural varis)

1. (archaic) The ring-tailed lemur.

• “vari”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vair, vira

Learned borrowing from Latin varius. Doublet of vair and vaire.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈba.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈva.ɾi]

vari (feminine vària, masculine plural varis, feminine plural vàries)

1. variable, changeable

   Synonym: mudable

2. varied, diverse

   Synonym: divers

• variar
• variat

• “vari”, 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

Related to varovat.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvarɪ]
• Hyphenation: va‧ri

vari

1. go away!
   • 1853, Karel Jaromír Erben, “Vodník”, in Kytice:

     Vari od našeho prahu, vari pryč, ty lstivý vrahu, a kdo tobě prve stlával, ať ti zase ustele!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “vari”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vari”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “vari”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Proto-Finnic *varjo, from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*warjōn). Cognates include Swedish värja, Danish værge and Finnish varjo.

vari (genitive varju, partitive varju)

1. shadow
2. shade

Declension of vari (ÕS type 24e/tühi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		vari	varjud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	varju
genitive			varjude
partitive		varju	varje varjusid
illative		varju varjusse	varjudesse varjesse
inessive		varjus	varjudes varjes
elative		varjust	varjudest varjest
allative		varjule	varjudele varjele
adessive		varjul	varjudel varjel
ablative		varjult	varjudelt varjelt
translative		varjuks	varjudeks varjeks
terminative		varjuni	varjudeni
essive		varjuna	varjudena
abessive		varjuta	varjudeta
comitative		varjuga	varjudega

• “vari”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “vari”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• vari in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑri/, [ˈʋɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Syllabification^(key): va‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧ri

Borrowed from Russian вар (var).

vari (dialectal)

1. hot weather

   Synonym: helle

• “2. vari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from English var.

vari

1. var (unit of electrical power)

• “1. vari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• Arvi, ravi

vari

1. indefinite dative singular of var

vari

1. plural of varo: wares, commodities, goods; merchandise

Borrowed from Russian вар (var, “boiling water”). Compare dialectal Finnish vari (“hot weather”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑri/, [ˈʋɑri]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑri/, [ˈʋɑri]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Hyphenation: va‧ri

vari

1. heat

vari (comparative varimp)

1. hot
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 13:

     Äkkistää mikälee vari ja märkä toukkais hänt kättee.

     Suddenly something hot and wet pushed against her hand.

   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 641:

     Afrikan ja Läns-Aazian variloil steeppilöil ellää suur vihakas hiisnikka - leva.

     In the hot steppes of Africa and West-Asia lives a big angry predator - the lion.

Declension of vari (type 5/vahti, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	vari	varit
genitive	varin	varriin, variloin
partitive	varria	varija, variloja
illative	varrii	varrii, variloihe
inessive	varis	variis, varilois
elative	varist	variist, variloist
allative	varille	variille, variloille
adessive	varil	variil, variloil
ablative	varilt	variilt, variloilt
translative	variks	variiks, variloiks
essive	varinna, varriin	variinna, variloinna, varriin, variloin
exessive1)	varint	variint, variloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (hot): kuuma

• (antonym(s) of “hot”): kylmä, viluin
• (antonym(s) of “hotness”): kylmä, vilu, kylmys

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “вари”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 677
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 641

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: và‧ri

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vari

1. masculine plural of vario

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vari m

1. plural of vario

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vari m

1. plural of varo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vari

1. inflection of varare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vari

1. inflection of variare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• riva, vira

vārī

1. inflection of vārus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vari”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• “vari”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

vari

1. inflection of varēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈvä̌ːrʲɪ]

vãri

1. vocative singular of vãris (“copper”)

Related to varr (“aware, wary”).

vari m

1. wariness

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see the Latin river Avara. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Missing Proto-Germanic link

vari m

1. the watery substance of the blood

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vari”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• “vari”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “231”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 231

vari

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of vara

• IPA^(key): /ˈvari/

vari

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vari (Cyrillic spelling вари)

1. genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of var

vari (Cyrillic spelling вари)

1. inflection of variti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *bali.

vari

1. wind

• Li, Jen-Kuei (2010) “vari”, in 新港文書研究 [Studies of Sinkang Manuscripts] (in Chinese), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 637

var (“where”) +‎ i (“in”)

vari (not comparable)

1. (formal) wherein, in which

• vari in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vari in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Ivar, riva, vira

From Proto-Finnic *varjo. Related to Estonian vari, Finnish varjo.

vari (genitive var'o, partitive varjo)

1. shadow

Borrowed from Russian вар (var).

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑri/, [ˈvɑrʲi]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Hyphenation: va‧ri

vari

1. hot

   Synonyms: kuumõ, palavõ (dialectal)

vari

1. hot weather
2. heat, hotness
3. fever

Declension of vari (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	vari	varid
genitive	vari	varijõ, varii
partitive	varria	variitõ, varii
illative	varrisõ, varri	variisõ
inessive	variz	variiz
elative	varissõ	variissõ
allative	varilõ	variilõ
adessive	varillõ	variillõ
ablative	variltõ	variiltõ
translative	varissi	variissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “vari”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn