gusar

Uncertain; possibilities include:

• From Italian corsaro (“corsair”), from Medieval Latin cursarius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“running”), from currō (“run”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with English corsair.
• Borrowed from Byzantine Greek χωσάριος, χονσάριος (khōsários, khonsários).

Doublet of hȕsār.

• IPA^(key): /ɡûsaːr/
• Hyphenation: gu‧sar

gȕsār m (Cyrillic spelling гу̏са̄р)

1. pirate, corsair

• → Hungarian: huszár
  • → French: hussard, houssard
    • → English: hussar
    • → Spanish: húsar
  • → German: Husar
    • → Dutch: huzaar
    • → Italian: ussaro
  • → Medieval Latin: husārō
  • → Polish: husarz
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hȕsār

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• IPA^(key): /ɡúːsar/

gȗsar m animacy unspecified

1. pirate

• “gusar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “gusar”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Compounding of gu ("to sow, to transplant") and sarou ("rice tree").

• IPA^(key): /ɡusar/

gusar (savara)

1. to sow paddy

• gusargajan (referring) – the month of September when rice seedlings are transplanted.