tar

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Middle English terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwan (compare West Frisian tarre, Dutch teer), from Proto-Indo-European *deru̯o (compare Welsh derw ‘oaks’, Lithuanian dervà ‘pinewood, resin’, Russian дерево (dérevo) ‘tree’), from *dóru ‘tree’. More at tree.

Noun

Wikipedia tar (plural tars)

  1. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
  2. Coal tar.
  3. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
  4. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
  5. black tar, a form of heroin
Derived terms
Terms derived from tar (noun)
Translations
substance
coal tar
byproduct of tobacco smoke
sailor

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To coat with tar.
Derived terms
Terms derived from tar (verb)
Translations
to coat with tar

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of tape archive.

Noun

tar (plural tars)

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

Verb

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

  1. (computing) To create a tar archive.

Anagrams

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Asturian

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
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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Adjective

tar

  1. bald

Synonyms

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Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [t̪ˠaɾˠ]

Verb

tar (present analytic tagann, future analytic tiocfaidh, verbal noun teacht, past participle tagtha)

  1. to come

Conjugation

Conjugation
Finite forms
Analytic 1st sing. 2d sing. 3d sing. Autonomous
1st pl. 2d pl. 3d pl.
Present tagann tagaim tagair* tagtar
tagaimid tagaid*
Imperfect thagadh thagainn thagtá thagtaí
thagaimis thagaidís
Past tháinig thánag* thángais* thángthas
thángamar thángabhar* thángadar*
Future tiocfaidh tiocfad* tiocfair* tiocfar
tiocfaimid tiocfaid*
Conditional thiocfadh thiocfainn thiocfá thiocfaí
thiocfaimis thiocfaidís
Present subjunctive taga tagad* tagair* tagtar
tagaimid tagaid*
Past subjunctive tagadh tagainn tagtá tagtaí
tagaimis tagaidís
Imperative tagadh tagaim tar tagtar
tagaimis tagaigí;
tagaidh*		 tagaidís
*(Nonstandard)
Past participle
tagtha
Verbal noun
teacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tar thar dtar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Lojban

Rafsi

tar

  1. rafsi of tarci.
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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic طار (ʈá:ra, “to fly”).

Verb

tar (imperfect jtir, past participle mtajjar)

  1. to fly
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Manx

Verb

tar (verbal noun çheet, simple past haink)

  1. to come
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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh tra and Latin trāns.

Preposition

tar (with accusative)

  1. over, across

Derived terms

Descendants

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Swedish

Verb

tar

  1. present tense of ta.
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