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Etymology

Clipping of English Tarahumara.

Symbol

tar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Central Tarahumara.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Central Tarahumara terms

English

WOTD – 22 May 2007

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tar

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɑɹ/, [tʰɑɻ], [tʰɑɹ]

  • Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /tæːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

PIE word
*dóru

From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”).

See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”). More at tree.

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tar (viscous substance)

Wikipedia

tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)

2. (usually uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
   1. Coal tar.
   2. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
4. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.

   Synonyms: Jack Tar, Jack tar, jacktar, jack

   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough‎:

     Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     a ruminating tar was […] adorning [the wooden settle] with his jack-knife, […] trying his hand at a ship under full sail.

   • 1915, W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald:

     If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar.

6. (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.

Derived terms

Terms derived from tar (noun)

• Archangel tar
• Athabasca tar sands
• beat the tar out of
• birch tar
• black as tar
• black tar
• coal tar
• gas tar
• green tar
• Jack Tar
• jacktar
• juniper tar
• mineral tar
• pine tar
• pitch-tar
• slow as tar
• spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
• Stockholm tar
• tar baby
• tar-black
• tar board
• tar boil
• tarbrush
• tar derby
• Tar Heel
• tarlike
• tarmac
• tarmacadam
• tar paper
• tarpaulin
• tar pit
• tarpot
• tar sand
• tar spot
• tar water
• tarweed
• the tackies hit the tar
• touch of the tar brush
• wood tar

Translations

substance

Albanian: zift (sq) m Arabic: قَطْرَان m (qaṭrān) Armenian: կուպր (hy) (kupr) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can Asturian: alquitrán m Azerbaijani: qatran (az) Basque: mundrun Belarusian: дзёгаць m (dzjóhacʹ), гудро́н m (hudrón), смала́ f (smalá) Bulgarian: катра́н (bg) m (katrán) Burmese: ကတ္တရာစေး (my) (katta.race:) Catalan: quitrà (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 焦油 (zh) (jiāoyóu) Czech: dehet (cs) m Danish: tjære (da) c Dutch: teer (nl) m or n Esperanto: gudro Estonian: tõrv Faroese: tjøra f Finnish: terva (fi) French: goudron (fr) m Galician: alcatrén m, alcatrón m, chapapote (gl) m, galipote f, piche (gl) m, brea (gl) f, breu m Georgian: კუპრი (ka) (ḳuṗri) German: Teer (de) m Greek: πίσσα (el) f (píssa), κατράμι (el) n (katrámi) Hebrew: זֶפֶת (he) (zefet) Hindi: तारकोल (hi) m (tārkol) Hungarian: kátrány (hu) Icelandic: tjara f Ingrian: terva Irish: tarra m Italian: catrame (it) m, bitume (it) m Japanese: 乾留液 (かんりゅうえき, kanryūeki), タール (ja) (tāru) Kazakh: қарамай (qaramai), гудрон (gudron) Khmer: ចុង (km) (cong) Korean: 수지 (ko) (suji), 타르 (tareu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: قەتران (qetran) Northern Kurdish: qîr (ku) f, qetran (ku) f Kyrgyz: карамай (karamay), дёготь (dyogot), гудрон (gudron) Lao: ນ້ຳມັນດິນ (nam man din) Latgalian: daguts m Latvian: darva (lv) f Lithuanian: dervà f, degùtas m Macedonian: катран m (katran) Maori: tā Northern Sami: darvi Norwegian: Bokmål: tjære (no) m or f Nynorsk: tjære f, tjøre f Ojibwe: bigiw Ottoman Turkish: قطران (katran), زفت (zift) Pashto: قطران m (qetrān), تارکول (ps) m (tārkól) Persian: قطران (fa) (qatrân), کرف (fa) (korf), کتران (fa) (katrân) Polish: dziegieć (pl) m, smoła (pl) f Portuguese: alcatrão (pt) m Romanian: gudron (ro) n Russian: дёготь (ru) m (djógotʹ), гудро́н (ru) m (gudrón), смола́ (ru) m (smolá) Sango: godoröo (sg) Scottish Gaelic: teàrr f, bìth f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ка̀тран m Roman: kàtran (sh) m Sicilian: catramu m, bitumi m Slovak: decht (sk) m Slovene: katran m Southern Altai: тӧгӧт (tögöt) Spanish: alquitrán (es) m, galipote m, chapopote (es) m, chapapote (es) m Swedish: tjära (sv) c Tagalog: ayangaw, alkitran (tl) Tajik: қатрон (qatron), гудрон (gudron) Thai: น้ำมันดิน (th) (nám-man-din) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: katran (tr) Turkmen: garaýag Ukrainian: дьо́готь m (dʹóhotʹ), гудро́н m (hudrón), смола́ f (smolá) Uyghur: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: gudron (uz), qatron (uz) Vietnamese: hắc ín (vi) Welsh: tar m Yiddish: פּעך (pekh)

coal tar

Belarusian: смала́ f (smalá) Bulgarian: смола́ (bg) f (smolá) Burmese: ကတ္တရာစေး (my) (katta.race:) Catalan: quitrà de carbó m Czech: uhelný dehet Dutch: koolteer (nl) Esperanto: gudro Finnish: kivihiiliterva (fi) Greek: πίσσα (el) f (píssa) Icelandic: tjara f Italian: catrame (it) m Khmer: ជ័រទឹក (cɔətɨk) Latin: pix f Macedonian: катран m (katran) Maori: tā Persian: قطران (fa) (qatrân) Polish: smoła (pl) f Portuguese: alcatrão (pt) m Russian: смола́ (ru) m (smolá), каменноу́гольная смола́ f (kamennoúgolʹnaja smolá) Scottish Gaelic: teàrr f, bìth f Slovak: smola (sk) f Spanish: alquitrán (es) m, chapopote bituminoso m, chapopote hullero m, alquitrán carbonoso m Swedish: tjära (sv) c Ukrainian: смола́ f (smolá)

byproduct of tobacco smoke

Catalan: quitrà (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 焦油 (zh) (jiāoyóu) Czech: dehet (cs) m Dutch: teer (nl) Esperanto: gudro Estonian: tõrv Finnish: terva (fi) French: goudron (fr) m German: Teer (de) m Greek: πίσσα (el) f (píssa) Icelandic: tjara f Italian: catrame (it) m Japanese: 脂 (ja) (やに, yani) Macedonian: катран m (katran) Maori: tā Norwegian: Bokmål: tjære (no) m or f Nynorsk: tjære f, tjøre f Polish: smoła (pl) f Portuguese: alcatrão (pt) m Russian: смола́ (ru) m (smolá) Spanish: alquitrán (es) m Swedish: tjära (sv) c

sailor

Finnish: pikipöksy German: Teerjacke f Icelandic: sjóari m, sjómaður (is) m Italian: marinaio (it) m Portuguese: marujo (pt) m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: морнар m Roman: mornar (sh) m Swedish: beckbyxa Welsh: dyn môr m

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

1. (transitive) To coat with tar.
2. (transitive) To besmirch.

   The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.

   • 1995, Paul Robinson, The Gate Contracts:

     Dr. Sign: In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know why
     Dr. Ellsworth: Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.

Derived terms

• tar and feather
• tar out
• tar with the same brush, tar with the same stick (dated)

Translations

to coat with tar

Catalan: enquitranar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: tjære (da) Esperanto: gudri Estonian: tõrvama Finnish: tervata (fi) German: teeren (de) Greek: πισσώνω (el) (pissóno) Hebrew: זִפֵּת (he) m (zipét) Icelandic: tjarga Ingrian: tervata Irish: tarráil, tarra a chur ar Italian: catramare (it), incatramare, calafatare (it), bitumare (it) Macedonian: катраносува (katranosuva) Ottoman Turkish: قطرانلامق (katranlamak), زفتلمك (ziftlemek) Portuguese: alcatroar (pt) Russian: ма́зать дёгтем (mázatʹ djógtem) Spanish: alquitranar (es) Swedish: tjära (sv) Turkish: katranlamak (tr)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Noun

tar (plural tars)

1. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
2. (computing) A file produced by such a program.

Derived terms

• tarball
• tarbomb
• tarfile

Translations

a file produced by an archiving program

Icelandic: tar-skrá f Portuguese: tar (pt) m

Verb

tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

1. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.

Antonyms

• untar

Derived terms

• untar

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tar (lute)

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Persian تار (târ). Doublet of tantra.

Alternative forms

• tār

Noun

tar (plural tars)

2. A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
   • 2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 9 April 2022:

     MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).

Translations

Persian musical instrument

Armenian: թառ (hy) (tʻaṙ) Azerbaijani: tar (az) Finnish: tar (fi) Georgian: თარი (ka) (tari) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تار (tar) Northern Kurdish: tar (ku) Macedonian: тар m (tar) Persian: تار (fa) (târ) Russian: тар (ru) (tar) Tajik: тор (tor) Turkish: tar (tr) Uzbek: tor (uz)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Etymology 4

From Arabic طار (ṭār).

Noun

tar (plural tars)

1. A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of membranophones

References

• 2001. Drum Circle: A Guide to World Percussion. Chalo Eduardo, Frank Kumor. Pg. 18.

Etymology 5

Noun

tar (plural tars)

1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).

Anagrams

• RAT, TRA, ART, ATR, art, RTA, rat, Rat, rta, Art, tra, 'rat, 'art, art.

Ao

Etymology

From Proto-Central Naga *a-(h)rə.

Noun

tar

1. (Chungli) intestine

   Synonym: (Mongsen) tehrü

Further reading

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎, Berkeley: University of California, pages 91-92, 206
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 132

Aromanian

Noun

tar m (plural tari)

1. donkey

Synonyms

• gumar/yumar, shonj/shonjiu, cãci, tãronj/tãroanji, uci, uricljat, dãnglãrã, dãngã

Derived terms

• tãronj

Asturian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin stāre. Compare Spanish estar, Aragonese estar, Galician estar, Portuguese estar, Catalan estar.

Verb

tar

1. to be (referring to geographical place)
2. to be (referring to something temporary)
3. to be (for use in constructing continuous verb forms)

   tas xugando ― you are playing

Conjugation

Conjugation of tar

infinitive		tar
gerundive		tando
participle		m [Term?], f [Term?], n tao, m pl [Term?], f pl [Term?]
person		first singular yo	second singular tu	third singular él/elli	first plural nosotros/nós	second plural vosotros/vós	third plural ellos
indicative	present	to toi	tas	ta	tamos	tais	tán
	imperfect	taba	tabes	taba	tábamos ~ tábemos	tabais ~ tabeis	taben
	preterite	tuvi tevi	tuvisti tuviesti	tuvo tevo	tuvimos tuviemos	tuvistis tuviestis	tuvieron
	pluperfect	tuviera ~ tuviere	tuvieras ~ tuvieres	tuviera ~ tuviere	tuviéramos ~ tuviéremos	tuvierais ~ tuviereis	tuvieran ~ tuvieren
	future	taré	tarás	tará	taremos	taréis	tarán
	conditional	taría	taríes	taría	taríamos ~ taríemos	taríais ~ taríeis	taríen
subjunctive	present	tea	teas	tea	teamos	teáis	tean
	imperfect	tuviera ~ tuviere	tuvieras ~ tuvieres	tuviera ~ tuviere	tuviéramos ~ tuviéremos	tuvierais ~ tuviereis	tuvieran ~ tuvieren
imperative			ta			tai

• Reference: http://www.academiadelallingua.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gramatica_Llingua.pdf

See also

• ser

Further reading

• “tar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “tar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تار (târ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɑr]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tar (definite accusative tarı, plural tarlar)

1. tar

Declension

Declension of tar

	singular	plural
nominative	tar	tarlar
definite accusative	tarı	tarları
dative	tara	tarlara
locative	tarda	tarlarda
ablative	tardan	tarlardan
definite genitive	tarın	tarların

Possessive forms of tar

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarım	tarlarım
sənin (“your”)	tarın	tarların
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarı	tarları
bizim (“our”)	tarımız	tarlarımız
sizin (“your”)	tarınız	tarlarınız
onların (“their”)	tarı or tarları	tarları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarımı	tarlarımı
sənin (“your”)	tarını	tarlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarını	tarlarını
bizim (“our”)	tarımızı	tarlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	tarınızı	tarlarınızı
onların (“their”)	tarını or tarlarını	tarlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarıma	tarlarıma
sənin (“your”)	tarına	tarlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarına	tarlarına
bizim (“our”)	tarımıza	tarlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	tarınıza	tarlarınıza
onların (“their”)	tarına or tarlarına	tarlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarımda	tarlarımda
sənin (“your”)	tarında	tarlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarında	tarlarında
bizim (“our”)	tarımızda	tarlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	tarınızda	tarlarınızda
onların (“their”)	tarında or tarlarında	tarlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarımdan	tarlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	tarından	tarlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarından	tarlarından
bizim (“our”)	tarımızdan	tarlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	tarınızdan	tarlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	tarından or tarlarından	tarlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tarımın	tarlarımın
sənin (“your”)	tarının	tarlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	tarının	tarlarının
bizim (“our”)	tarımızın	tarlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	tarınızın	tarlarınızın
onların (“their”)	tarının or tarlarının	tarlarının