gar

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

From Middle English gar, gare, gere, gore, from Old English gār (“spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms”), from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear, pike, javelin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰayso- (“pointed stick, spear”), from *ǵʰey- (“to drive, move, fling”). Cognate with West Frisian gear, Dutch geer (“pointed weapon, spear”), German Ger (“spear”), Norwegian geir (“spear”), Icelandic geir (“spear”). Related to gore.

• gore (dialectal)

gar (plural gars)

1. (obsolete) A spear.

Clipping of garfish.

gar (plural gars)

1. (especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
2. (especially Britain, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.

• The European species was the original gar, and the North American gars were named after it, with other common names also shared between the two. In modern usage an attempt has been made to restrict "gar" to the North American fish and "garfish" to the European ones, but both names can be found for both types. Context can help: the North American gars are freshwater fish of a very primitive type, while the European gars are saltwater fish known for their green bones and their association with mackerel in folklore.

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare yare; but also Old Cornish gorra (“put, place, set”).

gar (third-person singular simple present gars, present participle garring, simple past and past participle gart)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:

     I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:

     Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

• ARG, Arg., Gra, RGA, arg, rag

gar

1. blaze

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːr/

From Proto-Brythonic *garr, from Proto-Celtic *garros.

gar f (plural garoù)

1. leg

See the etymology of the main entry.

gar

1. Soft mutation of kar.

From Old High German garo, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz. Cognate with archaic English yare (“keen, lively, eager”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːɐ̯/ (official standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaː/ (more common)

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯, -aː

gar (not comparable)

1. cooked, done (of food such as meat or vegetables: ready for consumption)

• garen

gar

1. at all
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 25/2010, page 80:

     Ein Verbot sollte es nach Ansicht vieler Ökonomen auch für die sogenannten Leerverkäufe geben. Banken verkaufen dabei Aktien oder Währungen, die sie noch gar nicht besitzen oder allenfalls geliehen haben.

     In the opinion of many economists there should also exist a prohibition for the so-called short sales. In these banks sell shares or currencies that they do not own at all yet or have borrowed at best.

2. (Switzerland, Austria) very, really

• Garaus

From Old Irish gar (“short; near”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡaɾˠ]

gar (genitive singular masculine gair, genitive singular feminine gaire, plural gara, comparative gaire)

1. near
2. (of time) short
3. (literary) convenient; easy, likely
4. near, mean, stingy

• gar- (“near, close; approximate”)

gar m (genitive singular gair, nominative plural garanna)

1. nearness, proximity
2. convenience, service; turn, favor

• "gar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 gar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

gar

1. Alternative form of gare

From Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoys- (“pointed stick, spear”). Cognate with Old Frisian gēr, Old Saxon gēr, Old High German gēr, Old Norse geirr.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːr/

gār m (nominative plural gāras)

1. (poetic) spear, arrow

• Gārdene
• gārlēac
• nafogār

• Middle English: gar, gare, gere, gore
  • English: gore (dialectal), gar
  • → Middle English: garfysche
    • English: garfish
    • Scots: gairfish

• IPA^(key): /ɡar/

gar m inan

1. (colloquial) Augmentative of garnek.

• gar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gǫrva, gørva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare English yare.

• IPA^(key): /ɡar/, /ɡɛr/

gar (simple past and past participle gart or gert)

1. to make (somebody or something do something)

   Whit gars ye say that? ― What makes you say that?

• gare
• gair

gar

1. us (direct object)

   Cò a bhios gar cuideachadh? ― Who will help us?

• Adds the prefix n- to the following word if it begins with a vowel:

  Cha robh i gar n-ainmeachadh. ― She didn't mention us.

gar (past ghar, future garaidh, verbal noun garadh, past participle garte)

1. warm

   a' garadh an làmhan ris an teine ― warming their hands at the fire

• gorm

Borrowed from French gare.

gar (definite accusative garı, plural garlar)

1. station (railway)

gar (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. snow

• IPA^(key): /ɡar/

gar

1. Soft mutation of car.

gar

1. water

• Richard J. Nivens, A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan, in Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku (1992, edited by Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig)
• Richard J. Nivens, Borrowing Versus Code-switching in West Tarangan (Indonesia) (2002)
• E. Wattimury, A. Haulussy, J. Pentry, Sintaksis bahasa Tarangan (1995), page 48

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːr/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -óːr

From Old Norse í gær, í gjár

gar

1. Yesterday (only used in the adverbial form i gar.)

   i gar-o mårjan / i går óm móran

   yesterday morning

   i gar-o äfta

   yesterday evening

gar m

1. Skin-furrow (about the grain of a hide.)
2. Growth rings in wood.