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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Old East Slavic цьсарь ( cĭsarĭ ) , from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь , from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz , from Latin Caesar .[ 1] Doublet of kaiser and Caesar . The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Byzantine Greek Τζαῖσαρ ( Tzaîsar ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
tsar (plural tsars )
Tsar Nicholas II.
( historical ) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
1832 August 1, W. Barnes, “On the Origin of Language”, in Gentleman's Magazine , London, page 129 :and why, in the name of common sense, should the English call the Czar (tsar ) of Russia raze ?
( figuratively ) A person with great power; an autocrat .
1969 March 14 [1969 March 13], “Report from Border Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts , number 50 , Foreign Broadcast Information Service , sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC , page A 6 :Chin Chien-shih, an old poor peasant of Korean nationality, said: "The wolfish ambition of the new tsars is exactly the same as that of the old tsars. The Soviet revisionist renegade clique is struggling desperately in the hope of saving itself from doom, but this will only bring on its destruction more quickly."
Usage notes
( emperor of Russia ) : Officially, emperors after 1721 were styled imperator (импера́тор ( imperátor ) ) rather than tsar (царь ( carʹ ) ), but the latter term is still commonly applied to them.
The term sometimes refers to other emperors, besides those of Russia, e.g. the monarch of Bulgaria (1908-1946).
The spelling czar is predominant in figurative and informal senses. Scholarly literature prefers tsar .
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
an emperor
Afrikaans: tsaar (af)
Albanian: car (sq) m
Arabic: تْسَار m ( tsār ) , قَيْصَر m ( qayṣar )
Armenian: ցար (hy) ( cʻar )
Azerbaijani: çar (az)
Belarusian: цар m ( car )
Bengali: জার (bn) ( jar )
Bulgarian: цар (bg) m ( car )
Carpathian Rusyn: царь m ( carʹ )
Catalan: tsar (ca) m
Chinese:
Dungan: хуонвон ( huonvon )
Mandarin: 沙皇 (zh) ( shāhuáng ) , 察罕汗 (zh) ( early Qing )
Chukchi: тиркэрым ( tirkėrym )
Crimean Tatar: çar
Czech: car (cs) m
Danish: zar (da) c
Dutch: tsaar (nl)
Esperanto: caro
Estonian: tsaar (et)
Faroese: sarur m
Finnish: tsaari (fi)
French: tsar (fr) m , tzar (fr) m
Gagauz: ţar
Georgian: ცარი ( cari )
German: Zar (de) m
Greek: τσάρος (el) m ( tsáros )
Hebrew: צָאר (he) m ( tsar )
Hindi: ज़ार m ( zār ) , त्सार m ( tsār ) , जार (hi) m ( jār )
Hungarian: cár (hu)
Ido: caro (io) , carulo (io)
Ingrian: kuningas
Irish: sár m
Italian: zar (it) m
Japanese: ツァーリ (ja) ( tsāri ) , ツァー (ja) ( tsā ) , ツァール (ja) ( tsāru )
Karelian: čuari
Kashubian: césôrz m
Kazakh: патша ( patşa ) , царь ( sar )
Khmer: ត្សារ ( tsaa )
Korean: 차르 (ko) ( chareu ) , 짜리 ( jjari ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: qeyser (ku) m , çar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: падыша (ky) ( padışa ) , царь ( tsar )
Latvian: cars m
Lithuanian: caras (lt)
Macedonian: цар m ( car )
Malay: czar
Manchu: ᠴᠠᡤᠠᠨ ᡥᠠᠨ ( cagan han )
Marathi: त्सार m ( tsār ) , जार ( jār )
Mongolian:
Classical Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ( čaɣan qaɣan )
Cyrillic: цагаан хаан (mn) ( cagaan xaan )
Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ ( čaɣan qaɣan )
Northern Sami: cára
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tsar m
Nynorsk: tsar m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цѣсарь m ( cěsarĭ ) , царь m ( carĭ )
Old East Slavic: цьсарь m ( cĭsarĭ ) , царь m ( carĭ )
Pashto: تزار (ps) m ( tazãr )
Persian: تزار (fa) ( tezâr ) , تسار ( tesâr )
Polish: car (pl) m
Portuguese: tsar (pt) m , czar (pt) m , tzar m
Romanian: țar (ro) m
Russian: царь (ru) m ( carʹ ) , импера́тор (ru) m ( imperátor )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ца̏р m
Roman: cȁr (sh) m
Skolt Sami: caarr
Slovak: cár (sk) m
Slovene: cár m
Spanish: zar (es) m
Swahili: czar
Swedish: tsar (sv) c
Tagalog: sar
Tajik: подшоҳ ( podšoh ) , шоҳ (tg) ( šoh ) , тсар ( tsar )
Tatar: патша (tt) ( patşa )
Thai: ซาร์ ( saa )
Turkish: çar (tr)
Turkmen: patyşa , şa , tsar
Ukrainian: цар (uk) m ( car )
Urdu: زار m ( zār ) , تسار m ( tsār )
Uyghur: چار ( char )
Uzbek: podsho (uz) , shoh (uz) , tsar
Vietnamese: sa hoàng (vi) , Nga hoàng
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) zar (vo) , ( ♂ ) hizar
Yiddish: צאַר m ( tsar )
a person with great power; an autocrat
an appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area
References
^ Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories , New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.
Anagrams
tars , sart , ARTS , arts. , 'rats , tars- , ARTs , rats , Sart , srat , Srta. , star , RATs , RAST , Arts , stra. , Srta , arts , astr- , TSRA , RTAs , Star , TRAs
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Old East Slavic цьсарь ( cĭsarĭ ) , from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь , from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz , from Latin Caesar . Doublet of Cèsar .
Pronunciation
Noun
tsar m (plural tsars , feminine tsarina )
tsar
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
From Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Old East Slavic цьсарь ( cĭsarĭ ) , from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь , from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz , from Latin Caesar . Doublet of César .
Pronunciation
Noun
tsar m (plural tsars )
czar ( Russian nobility )
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
Galician
Noun
tsar m (plural tsares )
tsar
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂 ( kaisar ) , from Latin Caesar .
Noun
tsar m (definite singular tsaren , indefinite plural tsarer , definite plural tsarene )
a tsar or czar
References
“tsar” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
“tsar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB ).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂 ( kaisar ) , from Latin Caesar .
Noun
tsar m (definite singular tsaren , indefinite plural tsarar , definite plural tsarane )
a tsar or czar
References
“tsar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
tsar m (plural tsares , feminine tsarina , feminine plural tsarinas )
Alternative form of czar
Swedish
Etymology
From Russian царь ( carʹ ) , from Old East Slavic цьсарь ( cĭsarĭ ) , from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь , from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz , from Latin Caesar .
Pronunciation
Noun
tsar c
tsar
Declension
Further reading
Anagrams
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *ṣar , from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr , from *ǵʰes- . Cognate with Albanian dorë , Ancient Greek χείρ ( kheír ) , Old Armenian ձեռն ( jeṙn ) , Hittite ( kessar ) . Compare Tocharian B ṣar .
Noun
tsar m
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