avar

See also: Avar and àvar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin avarus.

Adjective

avar m or f (masculine and feminine plural avars)

1. stingy

Synonyms

• avariciós

Related terms

• avarícia

Further reading

• “avar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “avar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “avar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “avar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō.

Verb

avar (past participle avoit)

1. (Vegliot) to have

Conjugation

    Conjugation of avar

infinitive			avar
gerund			avando
past participle			avoit
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ju	te	jal/jala	nu	vu	jali/jale
	present	jai	ji	ju	jaime	jaite	ju
	imperfect	avas	avai	avaja	avajaime	avajaite	avas
	perfect	jai avoit	ji avoit	ju avoit	jaime avoit	jaite avoit	ju avoit
	pluperfect	avas avoit	avai avoit	avaja avoit	avajaime avoit	avajaite avoit	avas avoit
	future	avra	avrai	avra	avarme	avarte	avra
	conditional	avre	avre	avre	avarme	avarte	avre
subjunctive		ju	te	jal/jala	nu	vu	jali/jale
	present	avaja	avaja	avaja	avaime	avaite	avaja
	imperfect	avas	avasse	avassa	avassaime	avassaite	avas
imperative		—	te	—	nu	vu	—
	affirmative		avai		avaime	avaite
	negative		naun avai		naun avaime	naun avaite

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Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish avara.

Adjective

avar

1. ample

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Hungarian

avar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒvɒr]

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• Hyphenation: avar

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric stem as avul +‎ -r (“noun-forming suffix, obsolete”). For the -r ending, compare tompor, hunyor, sömör, fodor.

Noun

avar (plural avarok)

1. leaf litter (layer of fallen dry leaves on the ground)

   Synonym: levéltakaró

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	avar	avarok
accusative	avart	avarokat
dative	avarnak	avaroknak
instrumental	avarral	avarokkal
causal-final	avarért	avarokért
translative	avarrá	avarokká
terminative	avarig	avarokig
essive-formal	avarként	avarokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	avarban	avarokban
superessive	avaron	avarokon
adessive	avarnál	avaroknál
illative	avarba	avarokba
sublative	avarra	avarokra
allative	avarhoz	avarokhoz
elative	avarból	avarokból
delative	avarról	avarokról
ablative	avartól	avaroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	avaré	avaroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	avaréi	avarokéi

Possessive forms of avar
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	avarom	avarjaim
2nd person sing.	avarod	avarjaid
3rd person sing.	avarja	avarjai
1st person plural	avarunk	avarjaink
2nd person plural	avarotok	avarjaitok
3rd person plural	avarjuk	avarjaik

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin Avari, Avares. First attested in 1559.

Noun

avar (plural avarok)

1. Avar (people)
2. (singular only) Avar (language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	avar	avarok
accusative	avart	avarokat
dative	avarnak	avaroknak
instrumental	avarral	avarokkal
causal-final	avarért	avarokért
translative	avarrá	avarokká
terminative	avarig	avarokig
essive-formal	avarként	avarokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	avarban	avarokban
superessive	avaron	avarokon
adessive	avarnál	avaroknál
illative	avarba	avarokba
sublative	avarra	avarokra
allative	avarhoz	avarokhoz
elative	avarból	avarokból
delative	avarról	avarokról
ablative	avartól	avaroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	avaré	avaroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	avaréi	avarokéi

Possessive forms of avar
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	avarom	avarjaim
2nd person sing.	avarod	avarjaid
3rd person sing.	avarja	avarjai
1st person plural	avarunk	avarjaink
2nd person plural	avarotok	avarjaitok
3rd person plural	avarjuk	avarjaik

Adjective

avar (not comparable)

1. Avar (of or relating to the Avar language or people)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	avar	avarok
accusative	avart	avarokat
dative	avarnak	avaroknak
instrumental	avarral	avarokkal
causal-final	avarért	avarokért
translative	avarrá	avarokká
terminative	avarig	avarokig
essive-formal	avarként	avarokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	avarban	avarokban
superessive	avaron	avarokon
adessive	avarnál	avaroknál
illative	avarba	avarokba
sublative	avarra	avarokra
allative	avarhoz	avarokhoz
elative	avarból	avarokból
delative	avarról	avarokról
ablative	avartól	avaroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	avaré	avaroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	avaréi	avarokéi

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Portuguese

Noun

avar m (uncountable)

1. Avar (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan)

Noun

1. a member of the Avar people

Adjective

1. Avar (belonging or relating to the Avar people)

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Swedish

Verb

avar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of ava.

Anagrams

• vara

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Talysh

Noun

avar (Cyrillic авар)

1. oar, paddle, scull

   avari kəşe ― to row, to scull

References

• Pirejko, L. A. (1976) “авар”, in Talyšsko-russkij slovarʹ [Talysh–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 20

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Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish avara

Adjective

avar

1. ample

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Yola

Preposition

avar

1. before