adar

See also: Adar, ADAR, and Adár

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• adaru

Verb

adar (past participle adãratã)

1. I do; I create.
2. I build, form.
3. I decorate, ornament, embellish, adorn.
4. I fix, mend, repair.
5. I arrange.

Synonyms

• (do): fac
• (mend, repair): ndreg

Related terms

• adãrari/adãrare
• adãrat

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Basque

adar handiak dituen ahuntza
(a goat with big horns)

olibondo adarra
(an olive branch)

Etymology

Unknown. Often explained as a Celtic borrowing. Compare Old Irish adarc (“horn”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adar/, [a.ð̞ar]

Noun

adar inan

1. horn
2. branch

Declension

Declension of adar (inanimate, ending in -r)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	adar	adarra	adarrak
ergative	adarrek	adarrak	adarrek
dative	adarri	adarrari	adarrei
genitive	adarren	adarraren	adarren
comitative	adarrekin	adarrarekin	adarrekin
causative	adarrengatik	adarrarengatik	adarrengatik
benefactive	adarrentzat	adarrarentzat	adarrentzat
instrumental	adarrez	adarraz	adarrez
inessive	adarretan	adarrean	adarretan
locative	adarretako	adarreko	adarretako
allative	adarretara	adarrera	adarretara
terminative	adarretaraino	adarreraino	adarretaraino
directive	adarretarantz	adarrerantz	adarretarantz
destinative	adarretarako	adarrerako	adarretarako
ablative	adarretatik	adarretik	adarretatik
partitive	adarrik	—	—
prolative	adartzat	—	—

Derived terms

• adabegi (“knot, shake”)
• adabegitsu (“knotty”)
• adabeso (“main branch”)
• adaburu (“treetop”)
• adaburutu (“to prune”)
• adaganeko
• adaje (“horns”)
• adaka (“sprig”)
• adakaitz (“horned sheep”)
• adakera (“horns”)
• adaki (“branch used as firewood”)
• adakitu (“to defoliate”)
• adaondu (“to prune”)
• adapo
• adar-zulo (“yoke strap”)
• adarbakar (“unicorn”)
• adarbakoitz (“unicorn”)
• adardun (“horned”)
• adargabe (“branchless, hornless”)
• adarjotzaile (“prankster”)
• adarjotze (“taunt, joke”)
• adarka egin (“to gore”)
• adarka (“with the horns”)
• adarkada (“goring”)
• adarkadura (“ramification”)
• adarkari (“prone to goring”)
• adarkatu (“to gore, to ramify”)
• adarki (“horn used as a material”)
• adarmotz (“lacking a horn”)
• adarra jo (“to pull someone's leg”)
• adarrak ipini (“to cheat on someone”)
• adarrak jarri (“to cheat on someone”)
• adarrarte (“thicket”)
• adarreko (“a small quantity”)
• adarrondo (“knot, shake”)
• adarrondotsu (“knotty”)
• adartsu (“branchy”)
• adartu (“to ramify”)
• adarzabal (“fallow deer”)
• adaxka (“small branch”)
• adegi (“temple (part of the head)”) (uncertain)
• adondo (“forehead of cattle”)

 

Further reading

• “adar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “adar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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Portuguese

Noun

adar m (plural adares)

1. (Judaism) Adar (sixth Jewish month)

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Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh atar, from Proto-Celtic *ɸatar, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (obl. *pth₂-éns), from the same root as Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos, hence Welsh edn, adain, ehedeg and Old Irish én "bird". Also compare Old Irish ette "feather", English feather, and Latin penna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadar/
• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdar/, /ˈadar/
• Rhymes: -adar

Noun

adar m (collective, singulative aderyn)

1. birds

   Synonyms: ednod, ehediaid

2. (obsolete) young birds, chicks

   Synonyms: adar bach, cywion

Derived terms

• adar dŵr (“waterfowl”)
  • adar o'r unlliw a hedant i'r unlle (“birds of a feather flock together”)
  • adar paradwys (“birds of paradise”)
  • adar ysglyfaeth (“birds of prey”)
  • adara (“to fowl, to catch birds”)
  • adardy (“aviary”)
  • adareg (“ornithology”)
  • adaregol (“ornithological”)
  • adaregydd (“ornithologist”)
  • adargi (“retriever, setter, spaniel”)
  • adarwr (“fowler”)
  • adarydd (“ornithologist”)
  • adaryddiaeth (“ornithology”)
  • aderyn anlwc (“bird of ill omen”)
  • aderyn bach (“young bird, little bird”)
  • glud adar (“birdlime”)
  • gwylio adar (“to birdwatch”)
  • lladd dau aderyn ag un ergyd (“kill two birds with one stone”)
  • tipyn o dderyn (“bit of a lad”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
adar	unchanged	unchanged	hadar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “adar”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies