ajar

See also: Ajar

English

WOTD – 9 December 2015

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒɑː/
• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒɑɹ/

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Etymology 1

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

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

   The door was standing ajar.

Translations

slightly turned or opened

• Bulgarian: открехнат (bg) (otkrehnat)
• Danish: på klem, klem
• Dutch: op een kier
• Finnish: raollaan (fi)
• French: entrouvert (fr), entrebâillé (fr)
• Icelandic: í hálfa gátt
• Interlingue:
• Italian: socchiuso (it)
• Japanese: 少し開いて (すこしあいて, sukoshi aite)
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• Mandarin: 虚掩地 (xūyăn de), 半开地 (bànkāi de)
• Maori: matata
• Occitan: entredobèrt, entrebadat
• Persian: نیمه‌لا (nime-lā)
• Portuguese: entreaberto (pt)
• Russian: (adjective) приоткры́тый (ru) (priotkrýtyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: odškrinut (sh)
• Spanish: entreabierto (es), entornado (es)
• Swedish: på glänt (sv)

Adjective

ajar (comparative more ajar, superlative most ajar)

1. Slightly turned or opened.

   The door is ajar.

Translations

slightly turned or opened

• Bulgarian: открехнат (bg) (otkrehnat)
• Czech: pootevřený (cs)
• Danish: på klem
• Dutch: op een kier
• Finnish: raollaan (fi)
• French: entrebâillé (fr), entrouvert (fr)
• German: angelehnt (de)
• Icelandic: opinn til hálfs; opinn í hálfa gátt
• Interlingue:
• Mandarin: 虚掩的 (xūyăn de), 半开的 (bànkāi de)
• Maori: matata
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• Norwegian: på gløtt
• Persian: نیمه‌باز (nime-bâz)
• Portuguese: entreaberto (pt)
• Russian: приоткры́тый (ru) (priotkrýtyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: odškrinuto (sh)

  Cyrillic: одшкринут m

  Roman: odškrinut (sh) m

• Slovak: pootvorený, odchýlený
• Spanish: entreabierto (es), entornado (es)
• Swedish: på glänt (sv)

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

a- (“in, at”) +‎ jar (“discord, disagreement”)

Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
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

Being at variance or in contradiction to something

• Icelandic: úr samræmi, í ósamræmi, úr takti
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Verb

1. (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.

Translations

To show variance

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Anagrams

• raja

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ajar, from Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “teacher, master”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d͡ʒar/

Verb

ajar (used in the form mengajar)

1. to teach

Derived terms

Derived terms

• belajar to learn, to study
• pelajaran lesson

• pelajar student, pupil
• pengajar teacher

Further reading

• “ajar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya, “teacher, master”).

Verb

ajar

1. to teach

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pengajar (“teacher”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• pengajaran (“lesson, moral of story”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• ajaran (“teachings”) [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• ajar-ajar (“ascetics”) [reduplication] (redup)
• pelajar (“student”) [causative passive] (peR-)
• pelajaran (“subject, education”) [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
• ajarkan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• ajari [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
• mengajar (“to teach”) [agent focus] (meN-)
• diajar (“being taught (intr.)”) [patient focus] (di-)
• diajarkan (“being taught (tr.)”) [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
• terajar (“taught (accidentally)”) [agentless action] (teR-)
• belajar (“to learn”) [stative / habitual] (beR-)

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• ahajar (obsolete)

Etymology

From older ahajar, from Old Spanish haja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈxaɾ/ [aˈxaɾ]

Verb

1. (transitive and reflexive) to fade, wither

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001