хар

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xarъ.

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хар • (har) (obsolete)

1. worn-out, shabby, tattered from excessive use
2. (of a person or a working animal) extremely fatigued, drained, bone-tired

• не́хар (néhar, “indolence, hebetude, lack of effort”) (dialectal)
• не́хрьо (néhrjo)
• не́хра (néhra, “indolent person, loafer”)
• ха́рост (hárost)
• харота́ (harotá)

• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “ха́рꙑй, -ръ, -ра, ро”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. ‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 489

From Written Oirat ᡍᠠᠷᠠ (xara), from Proto-Mongolic *kara, ultimately of Turkic origin; see Proto-Turkic *kara.

• IPA^(key): /χaˈrə/

хар • (xar) (Clear script spelling ᡍᠠᠷᠠ (xara))

1. black

From Old Turkic qar (“snow”), from Proto-Turkic *kār (“snow”).

• IPA^(key): /χar/,

хар • (xar)

1. (meteorology) snow

From Proto-Mongolic *kara (“black”); compare Buryat хара (xara), Kalmyk хар (xar), Daur xara. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Turkic *kara (“black”), whence also Turkish kara and Uyghur قارا (qara).

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хар • (xar) (Mongolian spelling ᠬᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ (qar-a))

1. black (color)

• хар гэр (xar ger, “jail, prison”)
• хар зах (xar zax, “black market”)
• хар тугалга (xar tugalga, “lead (metal)”)
• хар хэрээ (xar xeree, “raven”)

Inherited from Classical Persian خَر (xar, “donkey”).

• IPA^(key): /xar/,

хар • (xar) (Persian spelling خر)

1. idiot, fool

   Synonym: аҳмақ (ahmaq)

хар • (xar) (Persian spelling خر)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonyms: улоғ (uloġ), дарозгӯш (darozgüš)

2. idiot, fool

   Synonym: аҳмақ (ahmaq)

Inherited from Classical Persian خَر (xar).

• IPA^(key): /xar/,

хар • (xar) (Persian spelling خر)

1. present stem of харидан (xaridan)

• хар on the Tajik Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tg
• “хар”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو (in Tajik), 2025

From Proto-Samoyedic *kərə, from Proto-Uralic *kurɜ. Cognates include Finnish kuras and Lule Sami gürra.

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• Hyphenation: хар

хар • (xar°)

1. knife

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь , Moscow: Огиз, page 155
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “хар”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 18

From Proto-Turkic *kār (“snow”). Cognate with Turkish kar (“snow”).

хар • (xar) (definite accusative харны, plural харлар)

1. snow
2. age (of someone)

   Мээң харым үжен. ― Meeñ xarım üjen. ― I'm thirty years old.

• чыл (çıl)

From Tajik хар (xar).

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хар (xar)

1. donkey, ass

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

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хар • (qar) (transitive)

1. to choke (on something)
2. to block off

• харыс (qarıs, “to fight, to butt heads”)