Wiktionary

spar

See also: SPAR, Spar, spař, spár, spär, and spår

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /spɑː/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /spɑɹ/, [spɑɹ], [spɑ˞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
  • Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.

Noun edit

spar (plural spars)

  1. A rafter of a roof.
  2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
  3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
rafter of a roof — see rafter
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Verb edit

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:
      The church dores were sparred,
      Fast boltyd and barryd,
      Yet wyth a prety gyn
      I fortuned to come in, […]
  2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.

Verb edit

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

  1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
    • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎[1]:
      After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
  2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  3. To contest in words; to wrangle.
Translations edit

Noun edit

spar (plural spars)

  1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
  2. (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
    • 2002, “No Escape” (track 23), in It's All Happening Now‎[2], performed by Lewis Parker (musician), Klashnekoff, and Skriblah Dan Gogh:
      KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars.
    • 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto‎[3], performed by Goldie Looking Chain:
      'Ello clart! How are you doin' spar? Let's have a look at your mobile phone there, that's fuckin' posh, innit? […] that's fuckin' safe, spar!
    • 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars‎[4], performed by Tempa T:
      I don't care if you got friends in your car. Light up your whip and all of your spars.
    • 2014 September 12, “September 12th”‎[5]performed by S.Kalibre:
      Trying to explain to my spars how it is over a spliff. Arguing, cause the media got 'em locked under their lids.

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

Noun edit

spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)

  2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
  3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • → Irish: sparra
  • → Welsh: sbar
Translations edit

Anagrams edit

Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

Noun edit

spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)

  1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection edit
Declension of spar
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative spar sparen sparer sparerne
genitive spars sparens sparers sparernes

Etymology 2 edit

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb edit

spar

  1. imperative of spare

See also edit

Suits in Danish · farver, kulører (layout · text)
       
hjerter ruder spar klør

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.

Noun edit

spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)

  1. spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. inflection of sparren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

German edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. singular imperative of sparen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

Related to the verb spara (“to save”)

Adjective edit

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

  1. economical
  2. thrifty

Declension edit

    positive (strong declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative spar spör spart
accusative sparan spara spart
dative spörum sparri spöru
genitive spars sparrar spars
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparir sparar spör
accusative spara sparar spör
dative spörum spörum spörum
genitive sparra sparra sparra
    positive (weak declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative spari spara spara
accusative spara spöru spara
dative spara spöru spara
genitive spara spöru spara
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative spöru spöru spöru
accusative spöru spöru spöru
dative spöru spöru spöru
genitive spöru spöru spöru
    comparative
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparari sparari sparara
accusative sparari sparari sparara
dative sparari sparari sparara
genitive sparari sparari sparara
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparari sparari sparari
accusative sparari sparari sparari
dative sparari sparari sparari
genitive sparari sparari sparari
    superlative (strong declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparastur spörust sparast
accusative sparastan sparasta sparast
dative spörustum sparastri spörustu
genitive sparasts sparastrar sparasts
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparastir sparastar spörust
accusative sparasta sparastar spörust
dative spörustum spörustum spörustum
genitive sparastra sparastra sparastra
    superlative (weak declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparasti sparasta sparasta
accusative sparasta spörustu sparasta
dative sparasta spörustu sparasta
genitive sparasta spörustu sparasta
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative spörustu spörustu spörustu
accusative spörustu spörustu spörustu
dative spörustu spörustu spörustu
genitive spörustu spörustu spörustu

Jamaican Creole edit

Noun edit

spar

  1. A friend, a mate, a pal.
    • 2007, “They Fear Me” (track 6), in Gangsta for Life:The Symphony of David Brooks (2007)‎[6], performed by Mavado (singer):
      I'm so far, my main spars dem no near mi. Singing my song to let my enemies hear mi.
      I'm so far better than the competition that my main friends aren't near me in ability. Singing my song to let my enemies hear me.

Middle English edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun edit

spar

  1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. imperative of spare

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun edit

spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)

  1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. present of spa
  2. imperative of spara

References edit

Swedish edit

Verb edit

spar

  1. inflection of spara:
    1. present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams edit

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