ajar

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from Old English ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- +‎ char. Akin to Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

ajar (not comparable)

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door was standing ajar.
  2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:
      There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar [...].

Translations[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door is ajar.
    When is a door not a door? When it is ajar.
    The pantry door was ajar, so I opened it and took out the jamb.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

ajar (third-person singular simple present ajars, present participle ajarring, simple past and past participle ajarred)

  1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
    • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, Volume 10,
      A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
    • 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod,
      Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.
    • 2007, Loki, Shard of the Ancient,
      Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.
  2. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
    • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 36,
      It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

Anagrams[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

Verb[edit]

ajar (used in the form mengajar)

  1. to teach

Derived terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From obsolete ahajar, from Old Spanish haja.

Verb[edit]

ajar (first-person singular present ajo, first-person singular preterite ajé, past participle ajado)

  1. (transitive and reflexive) to fade, wither

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of ajar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive ajar
gerund ajando
past participle ajado
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos		 él/ella
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present ajo ajastú
ajásvos		 aja ajamos ajáis ajan
imperfect ajaba ajabas ajaba ajábamos ajabais ajaban
preterite ajé ajaste ajó ajamos ajasteis ajaron
future ajaré ajarás ajará ajaremos ajaréis ajarán
conditional ajaría ajarías ajaría ajaríamos ajaríais ajarían
subjunctive yo tú
vos		 él/ella
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present aje ajestú
ajésvos1		 aje ajemos ajéis ajen
imperfect
(ra)		 ajara ajaras ajara ajáramos ajarais ajaran
imperfect
(se)		 ajase ajases ajase ajásemos ajaseis ajasen
future ajare ajares ajare ajáremos ajareis ajaren
imperative — tú
vos		 usted nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ustedes
affirmative ajatú
ajávos		 aje ajemos ajad ajen
negative no ajes no aje no ajemos no ajéis no ajen
1 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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