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English

WOTD – 9 December 2015

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- +‎ char. Akin to Scots char, chare (“to turn, cause to turn”), Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.

Alternative forms

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door was standing ajar.
Translations

Adjective

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door is ajar.
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      I know—for Death, who comes for me
      From regions of the blest afar,
      Where there is nothing to deceive,
      Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
Translations
slightly turned or opened

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

  1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
    • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, volume 10:
      A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
    • 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod:
      Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.
    • 2007, Loki, Shard of the Ancient:
      Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.

Etymology 2

From a- (“in, at”) +‎ jar (“discord, disagreement”).

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
  2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:
      There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […] .
Translations

Verb

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

  1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
    • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 36:
      It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.
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Anagrams

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Albanian

Noun

ajar m

  1. (archaic) large basket for holding or measuring grain

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • Newmark, Leonard (1999), “ajar”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Malay ajar

Verb

ajar

  1. to learn

Iban

Etymology

From Malay ajar, from Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “teacher, master”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒar/
  • Rhymes: -jar
  • Hyphenation: a‧jar

Noun

ajar

  1. lesson
  2. advice

Verb

ajar

  1. to teach

Derived terms

  • diajar
  • dipelajarka
  • ngajar
  • pemelajar
  • pengajar

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay ajar, from Classical Malay اجر (ajar), from Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “teacher, master”), likely derived from आचार (ācāra, “conduct, behavior”). Doublet of acar, acara, acarya, and hajar.

Verb

ajar (base-imperative ajar, active mengajar, passive diajar)

  1. to teach
Conjugation
More information root, active ...

1 There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
2 The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms
Affixations
  • ajar (“to teach (imperative)”)
  • ajari (“to teach (imperative)”)
  • ajarkan (“to teach (imperative)”)
  • belajar (“to learn, to study”)
  • belajari
  • belajarkan
  • diajar
  • diajari
  • diajarkan
  • diperajar
  • diperajari
  • diperajarkan
  • kepengajaran
  • membelajarkan
  • mengajar (“to teach”)
  • mengajari (“to teach (someone)”)
  • mengajarkan (“to teach (someone something)”)
  • pelajar (“student, pupil”)
  • pelajaran (“lesson”)
  • pelajari
  • pelajarkan
  • pembelajar
  • pembelajaran (“a learning process”)
  • pemelajar
  • pengajar (“teacher”)
  • pengajaran (“the act of teaching”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay [Term?] (Medan/Deli dialect).

Noun

ajar (plural ajar-ajar)

  1. (dialect) first fruit

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦗꦂ (ajar, “section of fruit”).

Classifier

ajar

  1. (dialect) classifier for durian compartment
  • larikan buah
  • pongge

Further reading

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Javanese

Romanization

ajar

  1. romanization of ꦲꦗꦂ

Malay

Old Javanese

Spanish

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