Zar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "zar"

English

Etymology

Borrowed both from Czech Žár and Arabic زر.

Proper noun

Zar (plural Zars)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Zar is the 33530^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Zar is most common among White (69.71%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22.79%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Zar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Raz

German

Alternative forms

• Czar, Zaar (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Kaiser and Cäsar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsaːr/, [t͡saː], [t͡saːɐ̯], [t͡saːr]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Noun

Zar m (weak, genitive Zaren, plural Zaren, feminine Zarin)

1. tsar, czar (Russian monarch)

Usage notes

• Zar is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have a stark tendency to be strong colloquially, so one might hear dem Zar instead of dem Zaren.

Declension

Declension of Zar [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zar	die	Zaren
genitive	eines	des	Zaren	der	Zaren
dative	einem	dem	Zaren	den	Zaren
accusative	einen	den	Zaren	die	Zaren

Derived terms

• Zarenreich
• Zarentum
• Zarismus

Further reading

• “Zar” in Duden online
• “Zar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache