sangar

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Pashto سنګر (sangar) or from Persian سنگر (sangar).

Pronunciation

Noun

sangar (plural sangars)

  1. (military, UK) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 422:
      At the summits of these the enemy sharpshooters waited for them in sangars, or rock-built entrenchments, each of which had to be taken before the advance could safely continue.
    • 2002, Stephen Hughes, The Iraqi Threat and Saddam Hussein′s Weapons of Mass Destruction, page 140:
      A sangar is a breastwork in the form of stonewalls built without bounding material. If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the sangar.
    • 2003, Mike Ryan, Secret Operations of the SAS, page 81:
      As the sun finally set, the rebels rushed the sangars, but were cut to pieces by the deadly accurate SAS fire.
    • 2007, David Humphry, Siege, page 205:
      The game′s up, thought Piet as the Burghers returned fire and moved forward to attack the sangar.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sankari.

Noun

sangar (genitive sangari, partitive sangarit)

  1. hero

Declension

Declension of sangar (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative sangar sangarid
accusative nom.
gen. sangari
genitive sangarite
partitive sangarit sangareid
illative sangarisse sangaritesse
sangareisse
inessive sangaris sangarites
sangareis
elative sangarist sangaritest
sangareist
allative sangarile sangaritele
sangareile
adessive sangaril sangaritel
sangareil
ablative sangarilt sangaritelt
sangareilt
translative sangariks sangariteks
sangareiks
terminative sangarini sangariteni
essive sangarina sangaritena
abessive sangarita sangariteta
comitative sangariga sangaritega

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