Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word gar. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in gar.
Definitions and meaning of gar
gar
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɑː/
(General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑɹ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishgar, gare, gere, gore, from Old Englishgār(“spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms”), from Proto-Germanic*gaizaz(“spear, pike, javelin”), from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰayso-(“pointed stick, spear”), from *ǵʰey-(“to drive, move, fling”). Cognate with West Frisiangear, Dutchgeer(“pointed weapon, spear”), GermanGer(“spear”), Norwegiangeir(“spear”), Icelandicgeir(“spear”). Related to gore.
Alternative forms
gore(dialectal)
Noun
gar (pluralgars)
(obsolete) A spear.
Etymology 2
Clipping of garfish.
Noun
gar (pluralgars)
(especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
(especially Britain, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.
Usage notes
The European species was the original gar, and the North American gars were named after it, with other common names also shared between the two. In modern usage an attempt has been made to restrict "gar" to the North American fish and "garfish" to the European ones, but both names can be found for both types. Context can help: the North American gars are freshwater fish of a very primitive type, while the European gars are saltwater fish known for their green bones and their association with mackerel in folklore.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle Englishgarren, gerren, from Old Norsegera, gerva (Swedishgöra, Danishgøre), from Proto-Germanic*garwijaną. Compare yare; but also Old Cornishgorra(“put, place, set”).
Verb
gar (third-person singular simple presentgars, present participlegarring, simple past and past participlegart)
(now chiefly Britain dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). [14th-19th c.]
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:
Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].
Anagrams
ARG, Arg., Gra, RGA, arg, rag
Basque
Noun
garinan
blaze
Breton
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːr/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic*garr, from Proto-Celtic*garros.
Noun
garf (pluralgaroù)
leg
Mutation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
gar
Soft mutation of kar.
Mutation
German
Etymology
From Middle High Germangare (inflected garw-), from Old High Germangaro, from Proto-West Germanic*garu, from Proto-Germanic*garwaz.
Cognate with Dutchgaar, archaic Englishyare(“keen, lively, eager”). Related with gerben.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡaːr/, [ɡaː], [ɡaːɐ̯], [ɡaːʁ]
Rhymes: -aːɐ̯, -aː
Adjective
gar (not comparable)
cooked, done (of food such as meat or vegetables: ready for consumption)
Declension
Derived terms
garen
Adverb
gar
(with a negative) at all; even
Synonym:überhaupt
2010, Der Spiegel, issue 25/2010, page 80:
(chiefly formal or literary) even; expressing a climax
"gar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 gar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Latvian
Etymology
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Preposition
gar (with accusative)
along
Middle English
Noun
gar
Alternative form of gare
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic*gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰoys-(“pointed stick, spear”).
Cognate with Old Frisiangēr, Old Saxongēr, Old High Germangēr, Old Norsegeirr.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡɑːr/
Noun
gārm (nominative pluralgāras)
(poetic) spear, arrow, dart
Declension
Derived terms
Gārdene
gārlēac
nafogār
Descendants
Middle English: gar, gare, gere, gore
English: gore(dialectal), gar
→ Middle English: garfysche
English: garfish
Scots: gairfish
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡar/
Noun
garm inan
(colloquial)Augmentative of garnek.
Declension
Further reading
gar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scots
Etymology
From Middle Englishgarren, gerren, from Old Norsegera, gǫrva, gørva (Swedishgöra, Danishgøre), from Proto-Germanic*garwijaną. Compare Englishyare.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡar/, /ɡɛr/
Verb
gar (simple past and past participlegartorgert)
to make (somebody or something do something)
Related terms
gare
gair
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
Pronoun
gar
us (direct object)
Usage notes
Adds the prefix n- to the following word if it begins with a vowel:
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irishgorim, from Proto-Celtic*gʷrenso-, from Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰrenso-(“warm”), from *gʷʰer-(“warm, hot”); see also Old Irishgrís(“heat (of the sun), fire, embers”), Sanskritघ्रंस(ghraṃsa, “heat of the sun”), Latinformus(“warm”), Ancient Greekθερμός(thermós), Englishwarm.
Verb
gar (pastghar, futuregaraidh, verbal noungaradh, past participlegarte)
warm
Related terms
gorm
References
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchgare.
Noun
gar (definite accusativegarı, pluralgarlar)
station (railway)
Turkmen
Noun
gar (definite accusative?, plural?)
snow
Welsh
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡar/
Noun
gar
Soft mutation of car.
Mutation
West Tarangan
Noun
gar
water
Further reading
Richard J. Nivens, A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan, in Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku (1992, edited by Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig)
Richard J. Nivens, Borrowing Versus Code-switching in West Tarangan (Indonesia) (2002)
E. Wattimury, A. Haulussy, J. Pentry, Sintaksis bahasa Tarangan (1995), page 48
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡɑːr/ (example of pronunciation)
Rhymes: -óːr
Etymology 1
From Old Norseígær, ígjár
Noun
gar
Yesterday (only used in the adverbial form i gar.)