Aar

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aar"

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Etymology

From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language.

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Proper noun

Aar

  1. A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German border.
  2. A river in Germany that flows 50 km from the Taunus in Hesse into the Lahn at Diez, Rhineland-Palatinate.
  3. A tributary in Hesse, Germany of the Dill river, itself a tributary of the Lahn.

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French

Proper noun

Aar f

  1. the Aar river

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German

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aːɐ̯/
  • Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Etymology 1

From Middle High German ar, arn, from Old High German aro, arn, from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô.

Noun

Aar m (strong or weak, genitive Aares or Aars or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)

  1. (poetic, formal or dated) eagle
    Synonym: Adler
    • 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:
      Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.
      He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: the eagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
    • 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:
      Feder des Aaren!
      Feather of the eagle!
    • 1808, Heinrich von Kleist († 1811), Die Herrmannschlacht. Ein Drama, a drama, in: 1870, H. v. Kleists Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe. Erster Band, edited by Heinrich Kurz, page 281:
      [...] der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars [...]
      the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood
Declension
Declension of Aar
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Aar die Aare, Aaren
genitive eines des Aares, Aars, Aaren der Aare, Aaren
dative einem dem Aar, Aare1, Aaren den Aaren
accusative einen den Aar, Aaren die Aare, Aaren

1Now rare, see notes.

Etymology 2

Attested as Late Latin Arola, Arula in the 7th century, from a pre-Indo-European hydronym *ar- (“watercourse”), also present in several other Old European hydronymy names such as Ahr in Rhineland, Ar in Meurthe-et-Moselle, l'Arc in both Savoie and Bouches-du-Rhône, Hérault (Occitan Erau) in Hérault, Arre in Gard, etc.

Proper noun

die Aar f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Aar)

  1. A tributary of the Rhine in Switzerland
  2. A left tributary of the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Germany
  3. A left tributary of the Dill in Hesse, Germany
  4. A branch of the Ill, Bas-Rhin department, France
  5. A left tributary of the Twiste, Hesse, Germany
Declension
Declension of Aar
singular
def. noun
nominative die Aar
genitive der Aar
dative der Aar
accusative die Aar

References

  • Chronicle of Fredegar, leaflet 130
  • Kristol, Andres; Cattin, Florence; Meroni, Barbara; Schmid, Gabrielle, eds. (2005). "Aarau AG (Aarau)" . Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen LSG: Dictionnaire toponymique de scommunes suisses DTS /Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri DTS (in German) (1st ed.). Stuttgart, Germany: Huber Frauenfeld

Further reading

  • “Aar” in Duden online
  • “Aar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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