douar

See also: Douar

English

Alternative forms

• dowar, duar

Etymology

Borrowed from French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduːɑː/

Noun

douar (plural douars)

1. A camp or village of tents in a North African country.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 65:

     “A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café.”

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 34:

     he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars.

   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 16:

     ‘We burn their douars, we rape their women, we confiscate their crops, we carry out the necessary exemplary executions and we round up those who are left into what I can only call concentrations camps.’

Anagrams

• doura

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *dijar or the like; cognate with Cornish dor and Welsh daear. Further etymology is unknown; Morris Jones associates it with Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm, but that suggestion has not been taken up by later scholars. No proposed etymology is given by GPC, Jackson 1953, Schrijver 1995, or Matasović 2009.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ar/

• Audio:

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Noun

douar m (plural douaroù or douareier)

1. earth, soil
2. Earth
3. land, country

Derived terms

• Douar an Tan
• douarek
• douaroniezh

Mutation

Mutation of douar

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	douar	zouar	unchanged	touar
plural	douaroù	zouaroù	unchanged	touaroù

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

French

Etymology

From Arabic دَوَّار (dawwār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwaʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

douar m (plural douars)

1. douar, duar

Further reading

• “douar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012