tara

See also: Tara, tará, tarą, tāra, tåra, țară, țara, ta-ra, and тара

English

Alternative forms

• ta-ra
• turrah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæˈɹɑː/, /təˈɹɑː/ (note: Stress on 2nd syllable, unlike the proper name Tara)

Interjection

tara

1. (Northern England or informal) goodbye; equivalent to the more geographically widespread ta ta
   • 2004: Metro in This is London (website of London Evening Standard), Jolie says ta-ra to Lara - Pssst...Actress Angelina Jolie's days as Tomb Raider action hero Lara Croft are over.

Synonyms

• bye, ta ta

See also

• ta ta

Anagrams

• A.A.R.T., ATRA, Arta, atar, rata

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'Are'are

Noun

tara

1. road

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

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Balinese

Romanization

tara

1. Romanization of ᬢᬭ
2. Romanization of ᬢᬭᬵ

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɾa/

Noun

tara f (plural tares)

1. defect, imperfection
2. tare (empty weight of a container)

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• tiara

Etymology

From Latin terra. Compare Italian and Portuguese terra, Romansch terra, tiara, teara, Romanian țară, Spanish tierra, French terre.

Noun

tara f

1. earth, ground

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Fijian

Verb

tara

1. (transitive) to touch, to take hold of

tara (tara-va)

1. (intransitive) to follow, to succeed, to come after

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

tara

1. third-person singular past historic of tarer

Anagrams

• rata, râta

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Hausa

Hausa cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tara

Etymology 1

Considered by Blench to be likely derived from a Plateau Benue-Congo language; compare Horom taras, Che ataras, Fyam téres.

Numeral

tar̃à f

1. nine

Etymology 2

Verb

tārā̀ (grade 1)

1. collect, gather
2. add up

Etymology 3

Verb

tàrā (grade 2)

1. go to meet or welcome someone
2. buy up something to resell later

Etymology 4

Noun

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)

1. fine (of money)

Etymology 5

Noun

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)

1. being mindful, caring about something

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Italian

Etymology

From medieval Latin tara, from Arabic طَرْح‎ (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ‎ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

Noun

tara f (plural tare)

1. tare
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. (archaic) deficiency

Verb

tara

1. inflection of tarare:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Descendants

• French: tare

Anagrams

• atra, rata

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Japanese

Romanization

tara

1. Rōmaji transcription of たら

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) tarā

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tarha, related to Finnish tarha.

Noun

tara

1. fence
2. garden

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Miskito

Adjective

tara

1. big, large

Antonyms

• sirpi

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ra/

Etymology 1

From trzeć.

Noun

tara f

1. washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)

   Synonym: tarka

Declension

declension of tara

	singular	plural
nominative	tara	tary
genitive	tary	tar
dative	tarze	tarom
accusative	tarę	tary
instrumental	tarą	tarami
locative	tarze	tarach
vocative	taro	tary

Etymology 2

From Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة‎‎ (ṭarḥa).

Noun

tara f

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)

Declension

declension of tara

	singular	plural
nominative	tara	tary
genitive	tary	tar
dative	tarze	tarom
accusative	tarę	tary
instrumental	tarą	tarami
locative	tarze	tarach
vocative	taro	tary

Further reading

• tara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic طَرْحَة‎ (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”). Compare Italian tara and French tare, taré (“crazy”).

Noun

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)
2. (colloquial) obsession, mania
3. (colloquial) flaw, defect
4. (slang) sexual fetish or desire

Synonyms

• (obsession): mania, obsessão
• (flaw): defeito
• (sexual fetish): perversão, fetiche

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Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali তারা (tara).

Noun

tara

1. star

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling та̏ра)

1. tare

Declension

Declension of tara

	singular	plural
nominative	tara	tare
genitive	tare	tara
dative	tari	tarama
accusative	taru	tare
vocative	taro	tare
locative	tari	tarama
instrumental	tarom	tarama

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Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara, from Andalusian Arabic طَرْحَة‎ (“that which is thrown away”), a derivative of Arabic طَرَحَ‎ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

Noun

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (empty weight of a container)
2. defect, flaw, vice
3. deficiency

Related terms

• tarado
• tarar
• destarar

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Tagalog

Etymology

From tayo na.

Verb

tara

1. (colloquial) Let's go.

   Tara, alisan na.

   Let's go, it's time to leave.

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Tahitian

Noun

tara

1. horn

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Turkish

Noun

tara (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. grain

Verb

tara

1. imperative of taramak