acar

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See also: acaṛ, acār, açar, açâr, and ācār

English

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Noun

acar (countable and uncountable, plural acars)

  1. A vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, a local version of the Indian achar.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *atsara, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós, from the root *h₂eḱ- (sharp). Compare Old Irish aicher (sharp, fierce, bitter), Latin ācer (pungent, acidic; sharp-minded), Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, pointed, sharp; at the edge), ἄκρον (ákron, peak, sharp point, edge).[1]

Alternatively, borrowed from Italian azzaru (steel).

Pronunciation

Noun

acar m (plural acare, definite acari, definite plural acaret)

  1. bitter cold
    Synonym: thëllim
  2. period of frost, coldness
  3. (figurative) bitter, coarse, rough, brisk
  4. dread
  5. (figurative) astute, sharp-witted
  6. (old or regional) steel

Declension

Adjective

acar (feminine acare)

  1. exceedingly cold
  2. clean, clear
  3. neat (of a person's clothing, appearance)

Adverb

acar

  1. neatly
  2. rudely
  3. thorny

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “acar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 1

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
  • acar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Ambonese Malay

Noun

acar

  1. kind of dish made of fried vegetables

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Malay acar, from Classical Malay اچر (acar), from Classical Persian آچار (āčār, pickle, marinade). Doublet of acara, acarya, ajar, and hajar.

Pronunciation

Noun

acar (plural acar-acar)

  1. (cooking) pickle, achar

Derived terms

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Irish

Noun

acar m (genitive singular acara)

  1. Alternative form of acra (tool, implement; service, convenience)

Declension

Declension of acar (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative acar
vocative a acar
genitive acara
dative acar
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-acar
genitive an acara
dative leis an acar
don acar

Mutation

Mutated forms of acar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acar n-acar hacar t-acar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Romanian

Etymology

From ac +‎ -ar, or possibly Latin ac(u)ārius. The final sense was based on French aiguilleur.

Pronunciation

Noun

acar m (plural acari)

  1. one who makes needles
  2. a box with supplies for sewing, including needles, thread, etc.
  3. (railways) switchman, pointsman
    Synonym: macagiu

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative acar acarul acari acarii
genitive-dative acar acarului acari acarilor
vocative acarule acarilor

Further reading

Simalungun Batak

Noun

acar

  1. pickle

References

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Verb

acar (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵛⴰⵔ)

  1. (transitive) to steal, to rob

Conjugation

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Derived terms