Aar
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German (see Aare), probably from a Celtic language.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːɹ/
Proper noun
Aar
- A river in Switzerland that rises at the Grimsel Pass and flows into the Rhine at the Swiss-German border.
Translations
See also
German
Etymology
From Middle High German ar, arn, from Old High German aro, arn, from Proto-Germanic *arô.
Pronunciation
audio (file) - IPA(key): /aːɐ̯/
- Rhymes: -aːɐ̯
Noun
Aar m (genitive Aars or Aares or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)
- (poetic, formal or dated) eagle
- 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:
- Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.
- He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: the eagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
- Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.
- 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:
- Feder des Aaren!
- Feather of the eagle!
- Feder des Aaren!
- Heinrich von Kleist, a poem published in 1870 in H. v. Kleists Werke by editor Heinrich Kurz, page 281:
- der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars
- the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood
- der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars
- 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:
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