tár

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tár, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (tear).

Pronunciation

Noun

tár n (genitive singular társ, plural tár)

  1. a tear

Declension

Declension of tár
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tár tárið tár tárini
accusative tár tárið tár tárini
dative tári tárinum tárum tárunum
genitive társ társins tára táranna

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

Probably from a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian tovar (cargo), Polish towar (merchandise), Russian това́р (továr, merchandise).

Noun

tár (plural tárak)

  1. storehouse, repository
  2. cabinet, collection (in museums)
  3. magazine (in guns)
Declension
Note: Some of its compounds can take the accusative in the form of -tárt aside from the regular -tárat (given below).
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tár tárak
accusative tárat tárakat
dative tárnak táraknak
instrumental tárral tárakkal
causal-final tárért tárakért
translative tárrá tárakká
terminative tárig tárakig
essive-formal tárként tárakként
essive-modal
inessive tárban tárakban
superessive táron tárakon
adessive tárnál táraknál
illative tárba tárakba
sublative tárra tárakra
allative tárhoz tárakhoz
elative tárból tárakból
delative tárról tárakról
ablative tártól táraktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
táré táraké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
táréi tárakéi
Possessive forms of tár
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. táram táraim
2nd person sing. tárad táraid
3rd person sing. tára tárai
1st person plural tárunk táraink
2nd person plural táratok táraitok
3rd person plural táruk táraik
Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

Etymology 2

Probably an onomatopoeia.

Verb

tár

  1. (transitive) to open wide
    Synonym: nyit
    Middle-voice counterpart: tárul
  2. (transitive) to expose, to reveal something (to someone elé)
Conjugation
Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ tár in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’), Second, revised and expanded edition, Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2021, →ISBN. (See also the PDF of its 1st edition.) lists tárol as a derivation of the verb and a derivation of the noun, but with two different dates. tár in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024. clarifies that the tárol derivation of the verb, dated from 1779, is ’nyit; öffnen’ (Kónyi János: NySz.)", an early coinage that has become obsolete, and the tárol derivation of the noun, dated from 1890, is ’lagern’ (Ballagi), which is still in use today.

Further reading

  • (to open wide): tár 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
  • (repository): tár 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

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tár, from Proto-Germanic *tahrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (tear).

Pronunciation

Noun

tár n (genitive singular társ, nominative plural tár)

  1. a tear (from crying)
  2. a small amount of a drink such as coffee or liquor; drop

Declension

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tahrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (tear).

Noun

tár n (genitive társ, plural tár)

  1. tear

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: tár
  • Faroese: tár
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tåre
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tåre
  • Old Swedish: tār
  • Danish: tåre (tear), tår (drop of liquid)