spar
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), 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, park.
Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A rafter of a roof.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
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Verb
spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)
- (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
- (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English sparren (“to thrust or strike rapidly”), 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 sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).
Verb
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- 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.
- To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
- To contest in words; to wrangle.
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Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Etymology 3
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)
- (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
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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)
- spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See spare (“to save,spare”).
Verb
spar
See also
Suits in Danish · farver, kulører (layout · text) | |||
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hjerter | ruder | spar | klør |
- spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”). Cognate to West Frisian spjir. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Noun
spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)
- 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
German
Pronunciation
Verb
spar
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of sparen.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of sparen.
Icelandic
Adjective
spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)
Declension
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | sparari | sparari | sparara |
accusative | sparari | sparari | sparara |
dative | sparari | sparari | sparara |
genitive | sparari | sparari | sparara |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | sparari | sparari | sparari |
accusative | sparari | sparari | sparari |
dative | sparari | sparari | sparari |
genitive | sparari | sparari | sparari |
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | sparastur | spörust | sparast |
accusative | sparastan | sparasta | sparast |
dative | spörustum | sparastri | spörustu |
genitive | sparasts | sparastrar | sparasts |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | sparastir | sparastar | spörust |
accusative | sparasta | sparastar | spörust |
dative | spörustum | spörustum | spörustum |
genitive | sparastra | sparastra | sparastra |
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | sparasti | sparasta | sparasta |
accusative | sparasta | spörustu | sparasta |
dative | sparasta | spörustu | sparasta |
genitive | sparasta | spörustu | sparasta |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | spörustu | spörustu | spörustu |
accusative | spörustu | spörustu | spörustu |
dative | spörustu | spörustu | spörustu |
genitive | spörustu | spörustu | spörustu |
Kurdish
Noun
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)
Noun
spar
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- 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)
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- present of spa
- imperative of spara
References
- “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Verb
spar
- (deprecated template usage) present tense of spara.
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of spara.
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