ćar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "car"

Romani

Alternative forms

• čar (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *चारि (cāri).

Noun

ćar f (nominative plural ćarǎ)

1. (International Standard) grass

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāri”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 258
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čar”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 48b
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e ćar, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 105b

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كار (ḱar), from Persian کار (kâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕâːr/

Noun

ćȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ћа̑р)

1. (regional) profit, earnings

References

• “ćar” in Hrvatski jezični portal