czar

See also: Czar

English

Etymology

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɑː(ɹ)/, /tsɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

czar (plural czars)

1. Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
   • 1555, Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, translated by Richard Eden, The decades of the newe worlde or west India‎^[1], London: William Powell, page 290:

     Note therfore that Czar in the Ruthens tounge signifieth a kynge, wheras in the language of the Slauons, Pollons, Bohemes, and other, the same woorde Czar, signifieth Cesar by whiche name Themperours haue byn commonly cauled.

2. (informal, US politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.

   drug czar

   cyberczar

   • 2020 May 8, Jayne O'Donnell, “'Deaths of despair': Coronavirus pandemic could push suicide, drug deaths as high as 150k, study says”, in USA Today‎^[2], archived from the original on 9 May 2020:

     The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand services to help people suffering amid the social isolation imposed by the coronavirus pandemic […]

Derived terms

• if only the czar knew

Anagrams

• Racz, Z-car, z car

French

"À sa Majesté Alexandre III Czar de toutes les Russies", Marche Russe by Louis Ganne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsaʁ/

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Noun

czar m (plural czars)

1. Archaic spelling of tsar.

Further reading

• “czar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʂar/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: czar

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čarъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ker-, *kēr-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Noun

czar m inan

1. spell (magic)

   Synonyms: zaklęcie, urok

2. allure, charm (quality of inspiring delight or admiration)

   Synonym: urok

Declension

Declension of czar

	singular	plural
nominative	czar	czary
genitive	czaru	czarów
dative	czarowi	czarom
accusative	czar	czary
instrumental	czarem	czarami
locative	czarze	czarach
vocative	czarze	czary

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

czar

1. genitive plural of czara

Further reading

• czar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• czar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “czar”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

Portuguese

czar

Alternative forms

• tsar, tzar

Etymology

From Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of César and kaiser.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtsaʁ/ [ˈtsah], /ˈkzaʁ/ [ˈkzah], /kiˈzaʁ/ [kiˈzah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtsaʁ/ [ˈtsah], /ˈkzaʁ/ [ˈkzah], /kiˈzaʁ/ [kiˈzah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈtsaɾ/, /ˈkzaɾ/, /kiˈzaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtsaʁ/ [ˈtsaχ], /ˈkzaʁ/ [ˈkzaχ], /kiˈzaʁ/ [kiˈzaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtsaɻ/, /ˈkzaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkzaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkzaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkza.ɾi/

Noun

czar m (plural czares, feminine czarina, feminine plural czarinas)

1. tsar