tar
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English teru, teoru, from Germanic *terwo-, probably a derivation of *trewo- ( > English tree), from Indo-European *drew ‘tree’. Cognate with Dutch teer, German Teer, Swedish tjära.
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tar (plural tars)
- (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
- Coal tar.
- (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
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to tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)
- (transitive) To coat with tar.
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[edit] Etymology 2
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tar (plural tars)
- (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
- (computing) A file produced by such a program.
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to tar (third-person singular simple present tars, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)
- (computing) To create a tar archive.
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[edit] Hungarian
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- IPA: /ˈtɒr/
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tar
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[edit] Irish
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- IPA: [t̪ˠaɾˠ]
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tar
- to come
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- Finite forms
| Analytic | 1st sing. | 2d sing. | 3d sing. | Autonomous | |
| 1st pl. | 2d pl. | 3d pl. | |||
| Present | tagann | tagaim | tagair* | tagtar | |
| tagaimid | tagaid* | ||||
| Imperfect | thagadh | thagainn | thagtá | thagtaí | |
| thagaimis | thagaidís | ||||
| Past | tháinig | thánag* | thángais* | thángthas | |
| thángamar | thángabhar* | thángadar* | |||
| Future | tiocfaidh | tiocfad* | tiocfair* | tiocfar | |
| tiocfaimid | tiocfaid* | ||||
| Conditional | thiocfadh | thiocfainn | thiocfá | thiocfaí | |
| thiocfaimis | thiocfaidís | ||||
| Present subjunctive | taga | tagad* | tagair* | tagtar | |
| tagaimid | tagaid* | ||||
| Past subjunctive | tagadh | tagainn | tagtá | tagtaí | |
| tagaimis | tagaidís | ||||
| Imperative | tagadh | tagaim | tar | tagtar | |
| tagaimis | tagaigí; tagaidh* |
tagaidís | |||
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| tar | thar | dtar | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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[edit] Maltese
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From Arabic طار (ʈá:ra, to fly)
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tar
[edit] Swedish
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tar
- present tense of ta