sár

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔaːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔaːɹ

sár n (genitive singular sárs, plural sár)

1. wound

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”).

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• Rhymes: -aːr
• Hyphenation: sár

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”)

• iszap

• 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

• IPA^(key): /sauːr/

  Rhymes: -auːr

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

sár (comparative sárari, superlative sárastur)

1. painful, sore

   Synonym: kvalafullur

   Á! Þetta er sárt!

   Ouch! This hurts!

2. bitter, distressing

   Synonym: átakanlegur

3. hurt, offended, embittered

   Synonym: gramur

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

sár n (genitive singular sárs, nominative plural sár)

1. a wound

   Synonym: (poetic) und

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

sár m (genitive singular sás, nominative plural sáir)

1. (archaic) cask

• rás, árs

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

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.

sár m (genitive singular sáir, nominative plural sáir)

1. tsar
2. (literary) overlord, ruler

• bansár (“tsarina”)

From Old Irish sár m (“outrage, insult, humiliation”), from Proto-Celtic *sagros, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sāxsro-, from *soǵʰ-sro-, from *seǵʰ- (“to overpower”), with vowel lengthening.^[1] See *segos (“force”).

sár m (genitive singular sáir)

1. (literary) violation, outrage; humiliation

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

sár m (genitive sás, plural sáir)

1. a large cask

• Norwegian Nynorsk: så
• Norwegian Bokmål: så

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

sár n (genitive sárs, plural sǫ́r)

2. a wound

• sárr (“sore, aching; wounded”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sár

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sár”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 352; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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