angar

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See also: ängar, angår, and ångar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

am- (“not”) +‎ gáire (“a laugh”); compare Old Irish ingir (“sorrow, lamentation”).

Noun

angar m (genitive singular angair)

  1. want, distress, affliction, austerity, privation

Declension

Declension of angar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative angar
Vocative a angair
Genitive angair
Dative angar

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an t-angar
Genitive an angair
Dative leis an angar

don angar

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
angar n-angar hangar t-angar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “angar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “austerity”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
  • “privation”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “angar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page amhgar

Latin

Verb

angar

  1. first-person singular future passive indicative of angō

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Noun

angar m

  1. indefinite plural of ange

Verb

angar

  1. present tense of ange

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angraz.

Noun

angar m

  1. field; meadow
  2. weevil

References

Old Norse

Noun

angar (m)

  1. nominative plural of angi

Verb

angar

  1. second/third-person singular present indicative active of anga

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀸𑀭 (aṃgāra), from Sanskrit अङ्गार (aṅgāra).

Noun

angar m (nominative plural angara)

  1. coal
  2. charcoal

Descendants

  • Angloromani:

References

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “áṅgāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 7
  • Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “angár”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 7b
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o angar, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 62ab
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