Faroese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sár n (genitive singular sárs, plural sár)

  1. wound

Declension edit

Declension of sár
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sár sárið sár sárini
accusative sár sárið sár sárini
dative sári sárinum sárum sárunum
genitive sárs sársins sára sáranna

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Oghur *šār (compare Chuvash шур (šur, swamp)), from Proto-Turkic *siāŕ (marsh, dirt). Compare also Bashkir һаҙ (haź, swamp, marsh), Kazakh саз (saz, mud).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃaːr]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aːr
  • Hyphenation: sár

Noun edit

sár (usually uncountable, plural sarak)

  1. mud (a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment)
  2. (figuratively) mud, dirt, dust, mire, smirch (miserable, shameful, despised situation or condition)
  3. (figurative, with a possessive suffix, informal) sin, fault, wrong, culpability
    Synonyms: hiba, felelősség
  4. Synonym of agyag (clay, loam)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sár sarak
accusative sarat sarakat
dative sárnak saraknak
instrumental sárral sarakkal
causal-final sárért sarakért
translative sárrá sarakká
terminative sárig sarakig
essive-formal sárként sarakként
essive-modal
inessive sárban sarakban
superessive sáron sarakon
adessive sárnál saraknál
illative sárba sarakba
sublative sárra sarakra
allative sárhoz sarakhoz
elative sárból sarakból
delative sárról sarakról
ablative sártól saraktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
sáré saraké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
sáréi sarakéi
Possessive forms of sár
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. saram saraim
2nd person sing. sarad saraid
3rd person sing. sara sarai
1st person plural sarunk saraink
2nd person plural saratok saraitok
3rd person plural saruk saraik

Derived terms edit

Compound words
Expressions

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • sár in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse sárr, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective edit

sár (comparative sárari, superlative sárastur)

  1. painful, sore
    Á! Þetta er sárt!
    Ouch! This hurts!
  2. bitter, distressing
  3. hurt, offended, embittered
Inflection edit
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *sairą. Cognate with Swedish sår.

Noun edit

sár n (genitive singular sárs, nominative plural sár)

  1. a wound
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
  • (wound): (poetic) und
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Old Norse sár, from Proto-Germanic *saihaz.

Noun edit

sár m (genitive singular sás, nominative plural sáir)

  1. cask
Declension edit

Anagrams edit

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From a conflation of Old Irish sár m (chief, ruler) and English tsar, Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. The Old Irish may be elliptical for some such compound like (modern) sárfhear.

Noun edit

sár m (genitive singular sáir, nominative plural sáir)

  1. tsar
  2. (literary) overlord, ruler
Declension edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Irish sár m (outrage, insult, humiliation), from Proto-Celtic *sagro-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sāxsro-, from *soǵʰ-sro-, from *seǵʰ- (to overpower), with vowel lengthening.[1] See *segos (force).

Noun edit

sár m (genitive singular sáir)

  1. (literary) violation, outrage; humiliation
Declension edit
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 327–sego

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sár shár
after an, tsár
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

sár m (genitive sás, plural sáir)

  1. a large cask
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk:
  • Norwegian Bokmål:

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Norse *ᛊᚨᛁᚱᚨ (*saira) (attested in compound), from Proto-Germanic *sairą.

Noun edit

sár n (genitive sárs, plural sǫ́r)

  1. a wound
Declension edit
Related terms edit
  • sárr (sore, aching; wounded)
Descendants edit

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

sár

  1. strong feminine nominative singular of sárr
  2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of sárr

References edit

  • sár in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.