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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1 From Middle English ter , terr , tarr , from Old English teoru , from Proto-West Germanic *teru , from Proto-Germanic *terwą (compare Saterland Frisian Taar , West Frisian tarre , tar , Dutch teer , German Teer ), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw ( “ oaks ” ) , Lithuanian dervà ( “ pinewood, resin ” ) , Russian де́рево ( dérevo , “ tree ” ) , Bulgarian дърво́ ( dǎrvó , “ tree ” ) ), from *dóru ( “ tree ” ) . More at tree .
Noun
tar (countable and uncountable , plural tars )
( usually uncountable ) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat , or coal.
Coal tar .
( uncountable ) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
( slang , dated ) A sailor , because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
Synonym: Jack Tar
1723 , Jonathan Swift , To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough :Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar .
1851 , Herman Melville , Moby Dick :a ruminating tar was [ …] adorning [the wooden settle ] with his jack-knife, [ …] trying his hand at a ship under full sail.
1915 , W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald :If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar .
( uncountable ) Black tar , a form of heroin .
Derived terms
Translations
substance
Albanian: zift (sq) m
Arabic: قَطْرَان m ( qaṭrān )
Armenian: կուպր (hy) ( kupr )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: alquitrán m
Azerbaijani: qatran (az)
Basque: mundrun
Belarusian: дзёгаць m ( dzjóhacʹ ) , гудро́н m ( hudrón ) , смала́ f ( smalá )
Bulgarian: катра́н (bg) m ( katrán )
Burmese: ကတ္တရာစေး (my) ( katta.race: )
Catalan: quitrà (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 焦油 (zh) ( jiāoyóu )
Czech: dehet (cs) m
Danish: tjære (da) c
Dutch: teer (nl) m or n
Esperanto: gudro
Estonian: tõrv
Faroese: tjøra f
Finnish: terva (fi)
French: goudron (fr) m
Galician: alcatrén m , alcatrón m , chapapote (gl) m , galipote f , piche (gl) m , brea (gl) f , breu m
Georgian: კუპრი (ka) ( ḳuṗri )
German: Teer (de) m
Greek: πίσσα (el) f ( píssa ) , κατράμι (el) n ( katrámi )
Hebrew: זֶפֶת (he) ( zefet )
Hindi: तारकोल (hi) m ( tārkol )
Hungarian: kátrány (hu)
Icelandic: tjara f
Ingrian: terva
Irish: tarra m
Italian: catrame (it) m , bitume (it) m
Japanese: 乾留液 ( かんりゅうえき, kanryūeki ) , タール (ja) ( tāru )
Kazakh: қарамай ( qaramai ) , гудрон ( gudron )
Khmer: ចុង (km) ( cong )
Korean: 수지 (ko) ( suji ) , 타르 ( tareu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قەتران ( qetran )
Northern Kurdish: qîr (ku) f , qetran (ku) f
Kyrgyz: карамай ( karamay ) , дёготь ( dyogot ) , гудрон ( gudron )
Lao: ນ້ຳມັນດິນ ( nam man din )
Latgalian: daguts m
Latvian: darva (lv) f
Lithuanian: dervà f , degùtas m
Macedonian: катран m ( katran )
Maori: tā
Northern Sami: darvi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tjære (no) m or f
Nynorsk: tjære f , tjøre f
Ojibwe: bigiw
Ottoman Turkish: قطران ( katran ) , زفت ( zift )
Pashto: قطران m ( qetrān ) , تارکول (ps) m ( tārkól )
Persian: قطران (fa) ( qatrân ) , کرف (fa) ( korf ) , کتران (fa) ( katrân )
Polish: dziegieć (pl) m , smoła (pl) f
Portuguese: alcatrão (pt) m
Romanian: gudron (ro) n
Russian: дёготь (ru) m ( djógotʹ ) , гудро́н (ru) m ( gudrón ) , смола́ (ru) m ( smolá )
Sango: godoröo (sg)
Scottish Gaelic: teàrr f , bìth f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀тран m
Roman: kàtran (sh) m
Sicilian: catramu m , bitumi m
Slovak: decht (sk) m
Slovene: katran m
Southern Altai: тӧгӧт ( tögöt )
Spanish: alquitrán (es) m , galipote m , chapopote m , chapapote m
Swedish: tjära (sv) c
Tagalog: ayangaw , alkitran (tl)
Tajik: қатрон ( qatron ) , гудрон ( gudron )
Thai: น้ำมันดิน (th) ( nám-man-din )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: katran (tr)
Turkmen: garaýag
Ukrainian: дьо́готь m ( dʹóhotʹ ) , гудро́н m ( hudrón ) , смола́ f ( smolá )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: gudron (uz) , qatron (uz)
Vietnamese: hắc ín (vi)
Welsh: tar m
Yiddish: פּעך ( pekh )
byproduct of tobacco smoke
Verb
tar (third-person singular simple present tars , present participle tarring , simple past and past participle tarred )
( transitive ) To coat with tar.
( transitive ) To besmirch .
The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.
1995 , Paul Robinson, The Gate Contracts :Dr. Sign : In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know whyDr. Ellsworth : Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of tape archive .
Noun
tar (plural tars )
( computing ) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
( computing ) A file produced by such a program.
Derived terms
Translations
a file produced by an archiving program
Verb
tar (third-person singular simple present tars , present participle tarring , simple past and past participle tarred )
( computing , transitive ) To create a tar archive.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Persian تار ( târ ) . Doublet of tantra .
Noun
tar (plural tars )
A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument , shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
Translations
Persian musical instrument
See also
Etymology 4
From Arabic طار ( ṭār ) .
Noun
tar (plural tars )
A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
See also
References
Etymology 5
Noun
tar (plural tars )
Alternative form of tara ( “ Indian coin ” )
Anagrams
RAT , TRA , ART , ATR , art , RTA , rat , Rat , rta , Art , tra , 'rat , 'art , art.
Aromanian
Noun
tar m (plural tari )
donkey
Synonyms
Derived terms
Asturian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin stāre . Compare Spanish estar , Aragonese estar , Galician estar , Portuguese estar , Catalan estar .
Verb
tar
to be (referring to geographical place)
to be (referring to something temporary)
to be (for use in constructing continuous verb forms)
tas xugando ― you are playing
Conjugation
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian تار ( târ ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
tar (definite accusative tarı , plural tarlar )
tar
Declension
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowing from an Oghur language, before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries),[ 1] from Proto-Turkic *tāŕ ( “ bald ” ) . Cognates include Turkish dazlak ( “ bald ” ) , Karakhanid تازْ ( tāz , “ bald ” ) , and Middle Mongol ( tarasun , “ bald ” ) , the latter perhaps a Turkic borrowing too.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tar (not comparable )
bald
Synonym: kopasz
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
tar 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
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
tar (plural tar -tar )
Alternative spelling of tir ( chess pieces ) .
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic .
Noun
tar (plural tar -tar )
( onomatopoeic ) whipping sound .
Etymology 3
From Dutch taart , from Middle Dutch tāerte , from Old French tarte .
Noun
tar (plural tar -tar )
( cooking ) a type of cake .
Synonym: kue tar
Etymology 4
From English tar , from Proto-Germanic *terwą , from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- . Doublet of ter and tir .
Noun
tar (plural tar -tar )
tar , the solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
Usage notes
Other definition of tar translated into ter or tir .
Etymology 5
Noun
tar (plural tar -tar )
( colloquial ) aphetic form of sebentar .
Further reading
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish do·icc . The imperative is from a related verb, do·airicc .
Pronunciation
Verb
tar (present analytic tagann , future analytic tiocfaidh , verbal noun teacht , past participle tagtha )
to come
to survive , pull through
Bhí a ndeartháir ar leaba an bháis, ach tháinig sé. Their brother was on his deathbed, but he pulled through.
Bádh a hathair agus tháinig a máthair. Her father drowned and her mother survived.
Conjugation
singular
plural
relative
autonomous
first
second
third
first
second
third
indicative
present
tagaim
tagann tú; tagair †
tagann sé, sí
tagaimid ; tagann muid
tagann sibh
tagann siad; tagaid †
a thagann ; a thagas / a dtagann *; a dtagas *
tagtar
past
tháinig mé; thánag
tháinig tú; thángais
tháinig sé, sí
thángamar ; tháinig muid
tháinig sibh; thángabhair
tháinig siad; thángadar
a tháinig / ar tháinig *
thángthas
past habitual
thagainn / dtagainn ‡‡
thagtá / dtagtá ‡‡
thagadh sé, sí / dtagadh sé, s퇇
thagaimis ; thagadh muid / dtagaimis ‡‡; dtagadh muid‡‡
thagadh sibh / dtagadh sibh‡‡
thagaidís ; thagadh siad / dtagaidís ‡‡; dtagadh siad‡‡
a thagadh / a dtagadh *
thagtaí / dtagtaí ‡‡
future
tiocfaidh mé; tiocfad
tiocfaidh tú; tiocfair †
tiocfaidh sé, sí
tiocfaimid ; tiocfaidh muid
tiocfaidh sibh
tiocfaidh siad; tiocfaid †
a thiocfaidh , a thiocfas / a dtiocfaidh *, a dtiocfas *
tiocfar
conditional
thiocfainn / dtiocfainn ‡‡
thiocfá / dtiocfá ‡‡
thiocfadh sé, sí / dtiocfadh sé, s퇇
thiocfaimis ; thiocfadh muid / dtiocfaimis ‡‡; dtiocfadh muid‡‡
thiocfadh sibh / dtiocfadh sibh‡‡
thiocfaidís ; thiocfadh siad / dtiocfaidís ‡‡; dtiocfadh siad‡‡
a thiocfadh / a dtiocfadh *
thiocfaí / dtiocfaí ‡‡
subjunctive
present
go dtaga mé; go dtagad †
go dtaga tú; go dtagair †
go dtaga sé, sí
go dtagaimid ; go dtaga muid
go dtaga sibh
go dtaga siad; go dtagaid †
—
go dtagtar
past
dá dtagainn
dá dtagtá
dá dtagadh sé, sí
dá dtagaimis ; dá dtagadh muid
dá dtagadh sibh
dá dtagaidís ; dá dtagadh siad
—
dá dtagtaí
imperative
tagaim
tar
tagadh sé, sí
tagaimis
tagaigí ;tagaidh †
tagaidís
—
tagtar
verbal noun
teacht
past participle
tagtha
*indirect relative † dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Forms based on the stem tig- (e.g. tigim and tig /tigeann ) are found in Ulster, North Mayo and parts of Munster; in at least some of these varieties there may also be spontaneous lenition to thig etc. even in environments where no lenition is expected. Forms based on the stem teag- (e.g. teagaim , teagann ) are found in parts of Connacht.
The present analytic tig is particularly common in tar le ( “ be able ” ) .
The obsolete present subjunctive tí is now found only in the preposition go dtí ( “ to, toward, up to, until ” ) .
Alternative forms of the second-person singular imperative include tair in Munster, teighre in Aran, teara in Connemara, and gabh in Ulster.
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Karaim
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *t(i)ār .
Adjective
tar
narrow
References
N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973 ), “tar ”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary ], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Karakalpak
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *t(i)ār .
Adjective
tar
narrow
References
N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958 ), “тар ”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary ], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic طَارَ ( ṭāra ) .
Pronunciation
Verb
tar (imperfect jtir , verbal noun tajran )
to fly
1970 , Anton Buttigieg , “Fil-Ġnien”, in Fl-Arena :Ta’ ferħ u serħ imlietni, u bħall-għasafar u l-friefet jien għamilt: minn fjur għal fjur ħsiebi tar bħal farfett, taħt siġra kbira qalbi fesdqet il-għana bħal għasfur. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
to be quick
Conjugation
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish do·icc .
Verb
tar (verbal noun çheet , simple past haink , future hig , conditional harragh )
to come
Haink ee er etlan .She came by plane.
Conjugation
Conjugation of tar
first
analytical
singular
plural
future
independent
higym
higmayd
hig
dependent
jigym
jigmayd
jig
relative
(no future relative form)
conditional
independent
harrin
harragh
dependent
darrin
darragh
past
haink
verbal noun
çheet
past participle
(no past participle form)
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
tar
Alternative form of tare ( “ vetch ” )
Etymology 2
Determiner
tar
( chiefly Northern dialectal ) Alternative form of þeir
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
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Verb
tar
present of ta
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
tar
present of ta
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *taras , from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂és , from the root *terh₂- ( “ to cross ” ) .[ 1]
The voiced variant dar is the original one, since *t in proclitics regularly became d in Old Irish. Tar with a voiceless initial consonant is analogical after its conjugated forms.[ 2]
Preposition
tar (with accusative )
over , across
Inflection
Forms combined with the definite article:
tarsin ( masculine/feminine singular )
tarsa ( neuter singular )
tarsna ( plural all genders )
Forms combined with a possessive determiner:
Forms combined with a possessive pronoun:
Derived terms
Descendants
References
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009 ) “*taras”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill , →ISBN , page 370
^ McCone, Kim (1981 ) “Final /t/ to /d/ after Unstressed Vowels, and an Old Irish Sound Law”, in Ériu , volume 32 , Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN , →JSTOR , retrieved November 25, 2022 , pages 29–44
Further reading
Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940 ) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin , transl., A Grammar of Old Irish , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN , §§ 434, 854 ; reprinted 2017
Pedersen, Holger (1913 ) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages ] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN , page 150
Pali
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit तॄ ( tṝ ) .
Root
tar (Pali name tara )
to cross
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈtar/
Rhymes: -ar
Syllabification: tar
Noun
tar f
genitive plural of tara
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
tar
( Portugal ) Nonstandard spelling of estar .
1983 , Manuel da Costa Fontes, Romanceiro da Ilha de São Jorge , Universidade de Coimbra, page 236:
Eu tou aqui nesta serra I’m here in this mountain chain
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian tár .
Noun
tar m (plural taruri )
unit of measurement for weights
Declension
Sumerian
Romanization
tar
Romanization of 𒋻 ( tar )
Swedish
Verb
tar
present indicative of ta
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English tar , from Old English teoru , from Proto-West Germanic *teru .
Pronunciation
Noun
tar
tar
1927 , “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD , page 132 , line 10 :Aal haar, an wi eyen lik torches o tar ?" "All hair, and with eyes like torches of tar ,"
References
Kathleen A. Browne (1927 ) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2 , Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132