хар

From Written Oirat ᡍᠠᠷᠠ (xara), from Proto-Mongolic *kara, ultimately of Turkic origin; see Proto-Turkic *kara.

• IPA^(key): /χaˈrə/

хар • (xar) (Clear script spelling ᡍᠠᠷᠠ (xara))

1. black

From Old Turkic qar (“snow”), from Proto-Turkic *kār, *Kiār (“snow”).

• IPA^(key): /χar/,

хар • (xar)

1. (meteorology) snow

From Proto-Mongolic *kara (“black”); compare Buryat хара (xara), Kalmyk хар (xar), Daur xara. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”), whence also Turkish kara and Uyghur قارا (qara).

• IPA^(key):

хар • (xar) (Mongolian spelling ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ (qar-a))

1. black (color)

• хар гэр (xar ger, “jail, prison”)
• хар зах (xar zax, “black market”)
• хар тугалга (xar tugalga, “lead (metal)”)
• хар хэрээ (xar xeree, “raven”)

Inherited from Classical Persian خَر (xar).

• IPA^(key): /χär/,

хар • (xar) (Persian spelling خر)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonyms: улоғ (uloġ), дарозгӯш (darozgüš)

• хар on the Tajik Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tg
• “хар”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2024

From Proto-Samoyedic *kərə, from Proto-Uralic *kurɜ. Cognates include Finnish kuras and Lule Sami gürra.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: хар

хар • (xar°)

1. knife

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 155
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “хар”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 18

From Proto-Turkic *kār (“snow”). Cognate with Turkish kar (“snow”).

хар • (xar) (definite accusative харны, plural харлар)

1. snow
2. age (of someone)

   Мээң харым үжен. ― Meeñ xarım üjen. ― I'm thirty years old.

• чыл (çıl)

From Tajik.

хар (xar)

1. donkey, ass

Possibly onomatopoeic.

хар • (qar)

1. (transitive) to choke (on)
2. (transitive, by extension) to block off

• харыс (qarıs, “to fight, to butt heads”)