lahar

See also: Lahar

English

WOTD – 24 July 2009

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑhɑɹ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lahar (plural lahars)

1. (geology) A volcanic mudflow.
   • 1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204:

     Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.

   • 2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138:

     Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.

   • 2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., “Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Volcanic Hazards in Central America, page 86:

     A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.

Descendants

• → Cebuano: lahar
• → Spanish: lahar
• → Tagalog: lahar

Translations

volcanic mudflow

Bishnupriya Manipuri: লহর Chinese: Mandarin: 火山泥流 (huǒshān níliú) Danish: lahar Dutch: lahar m Finnish: lahari (fi), vulkaaninen mutavyöry French: lahar (fr) m German: Lahar (de) m Greek: λαχάρ n (lachár) Indonesian: lahar (id) Italian: lahar m Japanese: ラハール (rahāru) Javanese: ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar) Malay: lahar (ms) Polish: lahar (pl) m Portuguese: lahar m Russian: лаха́р (ru) m (laxár) Slovak: lahár m Spanish: lahar m

See also

• pyroclast

Further reading

• lahar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rahal

Basque

Alternative forms

• lapar (Biscayan, Navarro-Lapurdian)
• sapar (Navarro-Lapurdian, Soule)

Etymology

Unknown. It is likely that lapar is a cross between lahar and kapar, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /lahar/ [la.har]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /lar/ [lar]
• Rhymes: -ahar, -ar
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: la‧har

Noun

lahar inan

1. bramble, blackberry bush

   Synonyms: sasi, (Northern) kapar

Declension

Declension of lahar (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	lahar	laharra	laharrak	laharrok
ergative	laharrek	laharrak	laharrek	laharrok
dative	laharri	laharrari	laharrei	laharroi
genitive	laharren	laharraren	laharren	laharron
comitative	laharrekin	laharrarekin	laharrekin	laharrokin
causative	laharrengatik	laharrarengatik	laharrengatik	laharrongatik
benefactive	laharrentzat	laharrarentzat	laharrentzat	laharrontzat
instrumental	laharrez	laharraz	laharrez	laharrotaz
innesive	laharretan	laharrean	laharretan	laharrotan
locative	laharretako	laharreko	laharretako	laharrotako
allative	laharretara	laharrera	laharretara	laharrotara
terminative	laharretaraino	laharreraino	laharretaraino	laharrotaraino
directive	laharretarantz	laharrerantz	laharretarantz	laharrotarantz
destinative	laharretarako	laharrerako	laharretarako	laharrotarako
ablative	laharretatik	laharretik	laharretatik	laharrotatik
partitive	laharrik	—	—	—
prolative	lahartzat	—	—	—

Further reading

• “lahar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “lahar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English lahar, from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la‧har
• IPA^(key): /laˈhaɾ/ [l̪ɐˈhaɾ̪]

Noun

lahár

1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Noun

lahar (plural lahar-lahar)

1. lava
2. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Derived terms

• berlahar

Further reading

• “lahar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

lahar

1. romanization of ꦭꦲꦂ

Malay

Etymology

From Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lahar/
• Rhymes: -har, -ar
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): [lähäː]

Noun

lahar (Jawi spelling لاهر, plural lahar-lahar or lahar²)

1. lava

   Synonym: lava

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• berlahar [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Further reading

• "lahar" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Portuguese

Noun

lahar m (plural lahars or lahares)

1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Spanish

Noun

lahar m (plural lahares)

1. lahar

Sumerian

Romanization

lahar

1. romanization of 𒇇 (laḫar)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lahar, from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /laˈhaɾ/ [lɐˈhaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧har

Noun

lahár (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔)

1. (geology) lahar (volcanic mudflow)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈlahaɾ/ [ˈlaː.hɐɾ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -ahaɾ
  • IPA^(key): /laˈhaɾ/ [lɐˈhaɾ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧har

Noun

lahar (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔) (Rizal, informal)

1. alternative form of lahad

Adjective

lahár (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜑᜇ᜔) (Rizal, informal)

1. alternative form of lahad

Further reading

• “lahar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.