sár

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔaːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔaːɹ

Noun

sár n (genitive singular sárs, plural sár)

1. wound

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Oghur *šār (compare Chuvash шур (šur, “swamp”)), from Proto-Turkic *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”). Compare also Bashkir һаҙ (haź, “swamp, marsh”), Kazakh саз (saz, “mud”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːr
• Hyphenation: sár

Noun

sár (usually uncountable, plural sarak)

1. mud (a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment)
2. (figuratively) mud, dirt, dust, mire, smirch (miserable, shameful, despised situation or condition)
3. (figurative, with a possessive suffix, informal) sin, fault, wrong, culpability

   Synonyms: hiba, felelősség

4. Synonym of agyag (“clay, loam”)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• iszap

Further reading

• sár in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sauːr/

  Rhymes: -auːr

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sárr, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sár (comparative sárari, superlative sárastur)

1. painful, sore

   Á! Þetta er sárt!

   Ouch! This hurts!

2. bitter, distressing
3. hurt, offended, embittered

Inflection

Synonyms

• (painful): kvalafullur
• (distressing): átakanlegur
• (embittered): gramur

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *sairą. Cognate with Swedish sår.

Noun

sár n (genitive singular sárs, nominative plural sár)

1. a wound

Declension

Synonyms

• (wound): (poetic) und

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *saihaz.

Noun

sár m (genitive singular sás, nominative plural sáir)

1. cask

Declension

Anagrams

• rás, árs

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠæːɾˠ/

Etymology 1

From a conflation of Old Irish sár m (“chief, ruler”) and English tsar, Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. The Old Irish may be elliptical for some such compound like (modern) sárfhear.

Noun

sár m (genitive singular sáir, nominative plural sáir)

1. tsar
2. (literary) overlord, ruler

Declension

Derived terms

• bansár (“tsarina”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish sár m (“outrage, insult, humiliation”), from Proto-Celtic *sagro-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sāxsro-, from *soǵʰ-sro-, from *seǵʰ- (“to overpower”), with vowel lengthening. See *segos (“force”).

Noun

sár m (genitive singular sáir)

1. (literary) violation, outrage; humiliation

Declension

Derived terms

• sár gach searbhais (“the height of bitterness”)

References

Mutation

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sár m (genitive sás, plural sáir)

1. a large cask

Declension

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: så
• Norwegian Bokmål: så

Etymology 2

From Proto-Norse *ᛊᚨᛁᚱᚨ (*saira) (attested in compound), from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Noun

sár n (genitive sárs, plural sǫ́r)

2. a wound

Declension

Related terms

• sárr (“sore, aching; wounded”)

Descendants

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sár

1. strong feminine nominative singular of sárr
2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of sárr

References

• sár in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.