Aar

See also: aar, AAR, åar, -aar, a-ar, äär, and år

English

Alternative forms

• Aare

Etymology

From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ɑːɹ/

Proper noun

Aar

1. A river in Switzerland that rises at the Grimsel Pass and flows into the Rhine at the Swiss-German border.

Translations

A river in Switzerland

• Armenian: Աարե (hy) (Aare)
• French: Aar (fr)
• German: Aare (de)
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• Japanese: アーレ川 (āregawa)
• Russian: А́ре (ru) (Áre)

See also

• AAR

Anagrams

• ARA, Ara, RAA, ara

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French

Proper noun

Aar ?

1. The Aar river

Anagrams

• ara

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German ar, arn, from Old High German aro, arn, from Proto-Germanic *arô.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /aːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Noun

Aar m (genitive Aars or Aares or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)

1. (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.

   • 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:

     Feder des Aaren!

     Feather of the eagle!

   • 1808, Heinrich von Kleist († 1811), Die Herrmannschlacht. Ein Drama, a drama, in: 1870, H. v. Kleists Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe. Erster Band, edited by Heinrich Kurz, page 281:

     [...] der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars [...]

     the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood

Declension

• Strong noun:

• Weak noun:

Synonyms

• Adler

Further reading

• “Aar” in Duden online
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891