quar

quar (plural quars)

1. (obsolete) A quarry.
   • 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson , “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy ”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume.  (Second Folio), London: Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:

     A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.

2. (slang) quarantine

quar (third-person singular simple present quars, present participle quarring, simple past and past participle quarred)

1. To choke or block (typically a river).

• quer

From Proto-Albanian *klā(u)ra, related to qos. Cognate to Ancient Greek κλᾰδᾰρός (klădărós, “fragile”), Old Irish claidim (“to empty”).

quar m (plural quarë, definite quari, definite plural quarët)

1. prison, cellar, shelter

• qos

• “quar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980

Borrowed from Esperanto kvar, French quatre, Italian quattro, Spanish cuatro, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /kwar/

quar

1. four (4)

• kar

• IPA^(key): /k(w)aɾ/
• Homophones: kar, qar
• Rhymes: -ar

quar

1. for; because; due to this

• French: car