yar

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /jɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

From Middle English ȝaren, ȝurren, ȝeorren, from Old English ġeorran, ġirran, gyrran (“to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate”), from Proto-Germanic *gerraną (“to creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble”). Cognate with Scots yarr, yirr (“to snarl, growl, quarrel, cause trouble”), Middle High German girren (“to roar, cry, rattle, chatter”).

• yarr

yar (third-person singular simple present yars, present participle yarring, simple past and past participle yarred)

1. (intransitive) To snarl; to gnar.
2. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.

Uncertain.

yar (comparative more yar, superlative most yar)

1. (UK dialectal) Sour; brackish.

• yarrish

From Middle English yar, ȝar, variants of yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“ready”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

• yare

yar (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (nautical, of a vessel, especially sailboat) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
   • 1390, J. Gower, Confessio Amantis, II. 237:

     The wynd was good, the Schip was yare.

   • 1939, The Philadelphia Story written by Philip Barry

     My, she was yar...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.

   • 1958, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library:

     ...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.

   • 1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06

     Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.

• yare

• -ary, Ary, Ayr, RYA, Ray, ary, ayr, ra'y, ray, rya, γ ray, γ-ray

From Persian یار (yâr).

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yar (definite accusative yarı, plural yarlar)

1. (poetic) beloved, sweetheart
2. (dated) friend
3. (dated) helper

   Allah yar olsun! (idiomatic) ― Godspeed! (literally, “may God be the helper”)

From Proto-Celtic *yarā (compare Welsh iâr).

yar f (plural yer)

1. hen

From Old Cornish yar, from Proto-Celtic *yarā (compare Welsh iâr).

• IPA^(key): /jaːɹ/

yar f (plural yer)

1. chicken, hen

• kock (“cock (male chicken)”)
• kulyek (“cock (male chicken)”)

yar

1. friend

• dus
• dust
• malgiri
• raphek
• yardus

yar

1. (chiefly Northern) alternative form of þeir

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *yarā.

yar

1. chicken, hen
   • c. 1200, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary in British Library MS Cotton Vespasian A XIV, folio 8 verso:

     Gallina. yar.

     Hen. — hen.

• Cornish: yar

Compare Hausa yārṑ (“boy”).

yar

1. small, little

Borrowed from German Jahr (“year”).

yar

1. year

   Synonym: yia

2. Pleiades
3. a kind of tree (Casuarina sp.) (clarification of this definition is needed)

• Murphy, John J. (1985) The Book of Pidgin English = Buk Bilong Tok Pisin, revised edition, Robert Brown & Associates, →ISBN, page 110
• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008) Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 123

From Ottoman Turkish یار (yar, “precipice”), from Proto-Turkic *yār (“precipice, steep bank”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (yār, “steep slope”).^[1] More at яр.

• IPA^(key): /jɑɾ/

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yar (definite accusative yarı, plural yarlar)

1. cliff, scarp, precipice

• uçurum

• IPA^(key): /jɑɾ/

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yar

1. second-person singular imperative of yarmak

yar (definite accusative yari, plural yarler)

1. alternative spelling of yâr

yar

1. alternative form of yartha
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

     Y'ar welcome hartille, yar welcome, joyes.

     [You're welcome heartily, you're welcome, joys.]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 130