spar

See also: SPAR, Spar, spař, spár, spär, and spår

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /spɑɹ/, [spɑɹ], [spɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophone: spa (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Derived terms

• interspar
• monkey spar
• multispar
• short spar
• spar buoy
• spar deck
• sparless
• sparlike
• sparmaker
• sparmaking
• spar torpedo
• unspar

Translations

rafter of a roof — see rafter

thick pole

• Bulgarian: як прът m (jak prăt), греда (bg) f (greda)
• Finnish: parru (fi)
• Māori: rākau whakapakoko
• Middle English: sparre
• Persian: شاهتیر (šāhtir)
• Russian: столб (ru) m (stolb)
• Spanish: poste (es) m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صیریق (sırık), كوندر (günder, gönder)

bar to fasten door

• Czech: závora (cs) f
• Finnish: telki (fi)
• Spanish: tranca (es) f

nautical: linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff

• Bulgarian: ранго́ут m (rangóut)
• Czech: ráhno (cs) n, žerď (cs) f
• Dutch: rondhout (nl) n
• Finnish: pyöröpuu (fi)
• German: Spiere f, Rundholz n
• Irish: sparra m
• Māori: rākau whakapakoko
• Marshallese: buum̧
• Persian: دکل (fa) (dakal)
• Russian: ранго́ут (ru) m (rangóut) (from Dutch "rondhout" - roundwood)

aeronautics: beam-like structural member

• Finnish: siipisalko
• French: longeron (fr) m
• German: Holm (de), Flügelholm
• Irish: croscheann sciatháin m
• Russian: лонжеро́н крыла́ m (lonžerón krylá)
• Spanish: larguero (es) m
• Swedish: balk (sv), vingbalk

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} spèrre f (Jersey)

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:

     The church dores were sparred,
     Fast boltyd and barryd,
     Yet wyth a prety gyn
     I fortuned to come in, […]

2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

Derived terms

• oversparred, undersparred

Etymology 2

From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
   • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.

2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Derived terms

• sparrer

Translations

to fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat

• Czech: trénovat (cs) impf, cvičit se impf
• Dutch: sparren (nl)
• Finnish: sparrata (fi)
• Irish: speáráil
• Italian: allenarsi al combattimento
• Russian: спарринговать (ru) (sparringovatʹ), вести (ru) (vesti) тренировочный (ru) (trenirovočnyj) бой (ru) (boj)
• Swedish: sparra

to argue — see also discuss

• Czech: přít se (cs) impf, dohadovat se impf

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
2. (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
   • 2002, “No Escape” (track 23), in It's All Happening Now‎^[2], performed by Lewis Parker (musician), Klashnekoff, and Skriblah Dan Gogh:

     KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars.

   • 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto‎^[3], performed by Goldie Looking Chain:

     'Ello clart! How are you doin' spar? Let's have a look at your mobile phone there, that's fuckin' posh, innit? […] that's fuckin' safe, spar!

   • 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars‎^[4], performed by Tempa T:

     I don't care if you got friends in your car. Light up your whip and all of your spars.

   • 2014 September 12, “September 12th”‎^[5]performed by S.Kalibre:

     Trying to explain to my spars how it is over a spliff. Arguing, cause the media got 'em locked under their lids.

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Middle Low German sparder.

Old English spærstān

Middle English sparston

English sparstonebf.

English spar

From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

Noun

spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)

2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

Derived terms

• bitter spar
• brown spar
• calcspar
• Derbyshire spar
• feldspar
• fluor spar
• fluorspar
• Greenland spar
• heavy spar
• hog-tooth spar
• Iceland spar
• ice spar
• K-spar
• Labrador spar
• microspar
• needle spar
• pearl spar
• satin spar
• schiller-spar
• sparitic
• sparlike
• sparmaker
• sparmaking
• tabular spar
• unspar

Descendants

• → Irish: sparra
• → Welsh: sbar

Translations

any crystal with readily discernible faces

• Catalan: espat m
• Finnish: sälpä (fi)
• French: spath (fr) m
• German: Spat (de) m
• Irish: sparra m
• Russian: шпат (ru) m (špat)
• Spanish: espato m

Anagrams

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-

Danish

Etymology 1

From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

Noun

spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer or spar)

1. spade (One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠)

Inflection

Declension of spar

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	spar	sparen	sparer spar	sparerne sparene
genitive	spars	sparens	sparers spars	sparernes sparenes

Etymology 2

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

See also

• spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɑr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: spar
• Rhymes: -ɑr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.

Noun

spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)

1. spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga

Derived terms

• blauwspar
• douglasspar
• fijnspar
• hemlockspar
• Nordmannspar
• zilverspar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

spar

1. inflection of sparren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃpaːɐ̯]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

spar

1. singular imperative of sparen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen

Icelandic

Etymology

Related to the verb spara (“to save”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspaːr]

Adjective

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

1. economical
2. thrifty

Declension

Positive forms of spar

strong declension (indefinite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	spar	spör	spart
	accusative	sparan	spara
	dative	spörum	sparri	spöru
	genitive	spars	sparrar	spars
	plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	sparir	sparar	spör
	accusative	spara
	dative	spörum
	genitive	sparra
weak declension (definite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	spari	spara	spara
	acc/dat/gen	spara	spöru
	plural (all-case)	spöru

Comparative forms of spar

weak declension (definite)		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular (all-case)	sparari	sparari	sparara
	plural (all-case)	sparari

Superlative forms of spar

strong declension (indefinite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	sparastur	spörust	sparast
	accusative	sparastan	sparasta
	dative	spörustum	sparastri	spörustu
	genitive	sparasts	sparastrar	sparasts
	plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	sparastir	sparastar	spörust
	accusative	sparasta
	dative	spörustum
	genitive	sparastra
weak declension (definite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	sparasti	sparasta	sparasta
	acc/dat/gen	sparasta	spörustu
	plural (all-case)	spörustu

Jamaican Creole

Noun

spar

1. A friend, a mate, a pal.
   • 2007, “They Fear Me” (track 6), in Gangsta for Life:The Symphony of David Brooks (2007)‎^[6], performed by Mavado (singer):

     I'm so far, my main spars dem no near mi. Singing my song to let my enemies hear mi.

     I'm so far better than the competition that my main friends aren't near me in ability. Singing my song to let my enemies hear me.

Middle English

Verb

spar

1. alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun

spar

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

References

• “spar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun

spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. present of spa
2. imperative of spara

References

• “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin squalus (“large type of fish; shark”). Doublet of scal from French.

Noun

spar m (plural spari) (archaic)

1. shark

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	spar	sparul	spari	sparii
genitive-dative	spar	sparului	spari	sparilor
vocative	sparule		sparilor

Swedish

Verb

spar

1. inflection of spara:
   1. present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• pars, raps