gars

See also: Gars, GARs, garš, and gärs

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

Noun

gars

1. plural of gar

Etymology 2

Noun

gars

1. Alternative form of garce (“unit of measure”).

Anagrams

• ARGs, GRAS, Gras, args, rags

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch garst, a variant of gerst, from Middle Dutch gerste, from Old Dutch *gersta, from Proto-West Germanic *gerstu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χars/

• Audio:

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Noun

gars (uncountable)

1. barley

Descendants

• → Xhosa: írhási

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French gars, the nominative singular of garçon m, from Early Medieval Latin garciō m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/ ~ /ɡɑ/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɡɔ]

• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

Noun

gars m (invariable)

1. lad, guy

   Synonyms: bougre m, mec m, type m

2. (in the plural) guys (usually all male)

Derived terms

• garce f

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gras

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot, warm”), see also Welsh gwres (“heat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡars/

Noun

gars m (1st declension)

1. spirit
2. mind, intellect
3. ghost, spectre

   Synonym: rēgs

4. vapor

Declension

Declension of gars (1st)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	gars	gari
genitive	gara	garu
dative	garam	gariem
accusative	garu	garus
instrumental	garu	gariem
locative	garā	garos
vocative	gar	gari

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 493-95

Middle English

Noun

gars

1. alternative form of gras

Norman

Etymology

Germanic borrowing, probably from Frankish *gard (“spike, stick”) (with reference to the male's penis).

Noun

gars m (plural gars)

1. (Jersey) gander

Old French

Noun

gars m

1. nominative singular of garçon
2. nominative singular of garçun