yar

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

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”).

• yarr

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.

Origin uncertain.

yar (comparative more yar, superlative most yar)

1. (Britain dialectal) Sour; brackish.

• yarrish

From Old English gearu (“ready”), from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

• yare

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.

   • 1958, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

     ...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.

   • 1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06

     Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.

• yare

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

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

yar f (plural yer)

1. hen

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

yar f (plural yer)

1. chicken, hen

yar

1. friend

• dus
• dust
• malgiri
• raphek
• yardus

yar

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þeir

• “their(e, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 June 2018.

yar

1. small

From Ottoman Turkish يار‎ (yar, “precipice”), from Old Turkic yār ("steep slope"),[1] from Proto-Turkic *jạ̄r (“precipice, steep bank”). More at яр.

• IPA^(key): /jaɾ/

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yar (definite accusative yarı, plural yarlar)

1. cliff, scarp, precipice

• uçurum

• IPA^(key): /jaɾ/

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yar

1. imperative of yarmak

From Ottoman Turkish يار‎ (yār, “friend, a beloved friend, one's lover”), from Persian یار‎ (yâr).

• IPA^(key): /jaːɾ/

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yar (definite accusative yari, plural yarlar)

1. beloved; lover
2. friend

• Before consonantal endings, the stem vowel is pronounced short and the endings themselves have back vowels. In the accusative, dative, and genitive singular, the stem vowel is pronounced long and the endings accordingly take front vowels. The declension is thus irregular:

Singular: nom. yar — acc. yari — dat. yare — loc. yarda — abl. yardan — gen. yarin

Plural: nom. yarlar — acc. yarları — dat. yarlara — loc. yarlarda — abl. yarlardan — gen. yarların