quar

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

quar (plural quars)

1. (obsolete) A quarry.
   • 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A chrysolite, a gem, the very agate / Of state and policy, cut from the quar / Of Machiavel.

Etymology 2

Noun

quar (uncountable)

1. (slang) Quarantine. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 3

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Verb

quar (third-person singular simple present quars, present participle quarring, simple past and past participle quarred)

1. (transitive) To choke or block (typically a river).

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kuer, kur — northeastern Gheg
• kjuer, kiuer — northwestern Gheg
• quer, qur, çur — central Gheg, southern Gheg
• kluar — Arvanitika
• qivur — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“cellar, pantry”). For the ending compare hamshor, fruer, etc. Doublet of qilar.

Discarded theories

Meyer (1891) separately misidentifies Bardhi's chiuer a typographical mistake for qiler and hesitatingly compares qur with ahur. Jokl (1923) connects the word to descendants of Proto-Slavic *klětь (“barn, cellar”) and other descendants of Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to shelter, cover”). Çabej SE compares it to the descendants of Proto-Celtic *kladeti (“to dig, bury”). Orel (1998) tentatively compares it to qos (“to finish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cuˈaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
• (dialectal, Gheg):
  • (northeastern Gheg) IPA^(key): [ˈkuːɾ], [ˈkueɾ]
  • (northwestern Gheg) IPA^(key): [ˈkjueɾ], [ˈkjuːɾ]
  • (central Gheg, southern Gheg) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃueɾ], [ˈt͡ʃuːɾ]
• (dialectal, Tosk):
  • IPA^(key): [ˈcuaɾ], [cuˈaɾ]
  • (Arvanitika) IPA^(key): [ˈkʎuaɾ]

Noun

quar m (plural quarë, definite quari, definite plural quarët)

1. basement, cellar, stable (where animals are kept)

   Synonyms: ahur, katua

2. cellar, pantry, storage, larder (where food is stored)

   Synonyms: qilar, ahur

3. (figurative) housing, shelter, bed

   Synonyms: jatak, strehë

4. (obsolete) bedroom
   • 1621, Pjetër Budi, Specchio di Confessione, Rome: B. Zannetti, page 387, lines 8–10:

     egoditi cori / chi aytue fyetune gniay nate atȣ ꝑpara dereſe / chiorit, keiſc iɛoti tue fyetune

     [e goditi kori qi aj tue fjetunë njaj nate aty përpara derësë qorit, ke ish i zoti tue fjetunë]

     it happened one night, while he was sleeping, in front of the door of the chamber where his master was sleeping

Declension

Declension of quar

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	quar	quari	quarë	quarët
accusative		quarin
dative	quari	quarit	quarëve	quarëve
ablative			quarësh

Variant declension forms of quar

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	quar quer — Gheg [from 1702] qur — Gheg kjuer — Gheg [from 1635]	quari qori [from 1763] quri — Gheg kjori — Gheg	quarë qore qure, qurë — Gheg kjore — Gheg	quarët qurët — Gheg kjuertë — Gheg [1685]
accusative		quarin
dative	quari qori [from 1763] quri — Gheg kjori — Gheg	quarit qorit [from 1621] kjorit — Gheg	quarëve	quarëve kjorevet — Gheg [1685]
ablative			quarësh

References

• FMGJSH (2026), “quár,~i”
• FGJSSH (1980), page 1619a: “quár,~i”
• Mann (1948), page 420a: “quer”, “quar”
• Bashkimi (1908), page 194b: “kiuer”
• Kristoforidhi (1904), page 191: “κϳουρ-ι”
• Bardhi (1635), page 112: “promptuarium, dispensa” → “chiuer”
• Etymological:
  • Jokl (1923), pages 95ff.: “ḱur, kiuer”
  • Meyer (1891), page 5: “ahúr” → “ḱur”, page 228: “ḱivúr” → “chiver”
  • Çabej SE, vol. 6, page 268ab: “quar”
  • Orel (1998), page 363: “quar”
  • Topalli (2017), page 1227a: “qúar”
  • DPEWA, “qúar -i”

Ido

Ido numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: quar     Ordinal: quaresma     Adverbial: quarfoye     Multiplier: quaropla     Fractional: quarima

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto kvar, French quatre, Italian quattro, Spanish cuatro, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwar/

Numeral

quar

1. four (4)

Old French

Alternative forms

• kar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k(w)aɾ/
• Homophones: kar, qar
• Rhymes: -ar

Conjunction

quar

1. for; because; due to this

Descendants

• French: car