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Yes. The word yar is a Scrabble US word. The word yar is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word yar is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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3-letter words (4 found)

ARY,RAY,RYA,YAR,

2-letter words (3 found)

AR,AY,YA,

You can make 7 words from yar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of yar

yar ayr yra rya ary ray

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Definitions and meaning of yar

yar

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /jɑɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝaren, ȝurren, ȝeorren, from Old English ġeorran, ġirran, gyrran (“to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate”), from Proto-Germanic *gerraną (“to creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble”). Cognate with Scots yarr, yirr (“to snarl, growl, quarrel, cause trouble”), Middle High German girren (“to roar, cry, rattle, chatter”).

Alternative forms

  • yarr

Verb

yar (third-person singular simple present yars, present participle yarring, simple past and past participle yarred)

  1. (intransitive) To snarl; to gnar.
  2. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

Adjective

yar (comparative more yar, superlative most yar)

  1. (UK dialectal) Sour; brackish.
Derived terms
  • yarrish

Etymology 3

From Middle English yar, ȝar, variants of yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“ready”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Alternative forms

  • yare

Adjective

yar (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

  1. (nautical, of a vessel, especially sailboat) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
    • 1939, The Philadelphia Story written by Philip Barry
      My, she was yar...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.
    • 1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06
      Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.
Synonyms
  • yare

Anagrams

  • -ary, Ary, Ayr, RYA, Ray, ary, ayr, ra'y, ray, rya, γ ray, γ-ray

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian یار (yâr).

Pronunciation

Noun

yar (definite accusative yarı, plural yarlar)

  1. (poetic) beloved, sweetheart
  2. (dated) friend
  3. (dated) helper
    Allah yar olsun! (idiomatic) ― Godspeed! (literally, “may God be the helper”)

Declension

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yarā (compare Welsh iâr).

Noun

yar f (plural yer)

  1. hen

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish yar, from Proto-Celtic *yarā (compare Welsh iâr).

Noun

yar f (plural yer)

  1. chicken, hen

Derived terms

Kalasha

Noun

yar

  1. friend

Synonyms

  • dus
  • dust
  • malgiri
  • raphek
  • yardus

Middle English

Determiner

yar

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of þeir

Old Cornish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *yarā.

Noun

yar

  1. chicken, hen

Descendants

  • Cornish: yar

Somali

Etymology

Compare Hausa [script needed] (yārṑ, “boy”).

Adjective

yar

  1. small, little

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Jahr (“year”).

Noun

yar

  1. year
    Synonym: yia
  2. Pleiades
  3. a kind of tree (Casuarina sp.) (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

  • Murphy, John J. (1985) The Book of Pidgin English = Buk Bilong Tok Pisin, revised edition, Robert Brown & Associates, →ISBN, page 110
  • Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008) Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 123

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish یار (yar, “precipice”), from Proto-Turkic *yār (“precipice, steep bank”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (yār, “steep slope”). More at яр.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑɾ/

Noun

yar (definite accusative yarı, plural yarlar)

  1. cliff, scarp, precipice
Declension
Synonyms
  • uçurum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɑɾ/

Verb

yar

  1. second-person singular imperative of yarmak

Etymology 3

Noun

yar (definite accusative yari, plural yarler)

  1. Alternative spelling of yâr

References

Yola

Contraction

yar

  1. Alternative form of y'art

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 130

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