chinar

English

Alternative forms

• chenar, cheenar, chinaur, chunar

Etymology

From Hindustani चिनार / چنار (cinar), from Classical Persian چنار (činār, “Platanus”).

Noun

chinar (plural chinars)

1. The tree Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane.
   • 1854, John Claudius Loudon, Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum‎^[1]:

     The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees about it, the plague has not come nigh their dwellings."

   • 2007 October 26, Holland Cotter, “Treasures From a Land in Tumult”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around.

   • 2011, Environment Chronicles: the best of TerraGreen‎^[3], page 57:

     I too felt that the government has not made judicious use of its powers to curb the felling of chinars.

Translations

Platanus orientalis

• Albanian: çinar
• Armenian: չինար (hy) (čʻinar)
• Bulgarian: чина́р (bg) (činár)
• Khalaj: çinâr
• Macedonian: чинар (činar)
• Persian: چنار (fa) (čenâr)
• Punjabi: ਚਿਨਾਰ (cinār)
• Russian: чина́р (ru) (činár)
• Turkish: çınar (tr)

References

• “chinar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cheenar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 187.

Anagrams

• Ranchi, archin, chiRNA, chrain, inarch

Portuguese

Etymology

From chino (“knife”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna(ʁ)/ [ʃiˈna(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna(ʁ)/ [ʃiˈna(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna(ʁ)/ [ʃiˈna(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈnaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈnaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈnaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈna.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: chi‧nar

Verb

chinar (first-person singular present chino, first-person singular preterite chinei, past participle chinado)

1. (Portugal, colloquial) to stab

   Synonym: esfaquear

Conjugation

    Conjugation of chinar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	chinar
Personal	chinar	chinares	chinar	chinarmos	chinardes	chinarem
Gerund
	chinando
Past participle
Masculine	chinado			chinados
Feminine	chinada			chinadas
Indicative
Present	chino	chinas	china	chinamos	chinais	chinam
Imperfect	chinava	chinavas	chinava	chinávamos	chináveis	chinavam
Preterite	chinei	chinaste	chinou	chinamos1, chinámos2	chinastes	chinaram
Pluperfect	chinara	chinaras	chinara	chináramos	chináreis	chinaram
Future	chinarei	chinarás	chinará	chinaremos	chinareis	chinarão
Conditional	chinaria	chinarias	chinaria	chinaríamos	chinaríeis	chinariam
Subjunctive
Present	chine	chines	chine	chinemos	chineis	chinem
Imperfect	chinasse	chinasses	chinasse	chinássemos	chinásseis	chinassem
Future	chinar	chinares	chinar	chinarmos	chinardes	chinarem
Imperative
Affirmative		china	chine	chinemos	chinai	chinem
Negative (não)		não chines	não chine	não chinemos	não chineis	não chinem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Derived terms

• chinado

 

Related terms

• chinaço
• chino