vakars
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wékeras (“evening”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wekʷsperos. The stem was probably originally an adjective, of which vakars < *vakaras was a nominalized version, and vakar the adverbial form, originally meaning “the previous night” and only later “yesterday;” compare Russian вечер (véčer, “evening”), вчера (včerá, “yesterday”). Cognates include Lithuanian vãkaras, Old Church Slavonic вечеръ (večerŭ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Bulgarian вечер (véčer), Belarusian вечар (vječar), Ukrainian вечір (večir), Czech večer, Polish wieczór, Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos), Latin vesper, Old Armenian գիշեր (gišer).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
vakars m (1st declension)
- evening (time of day, roughly around sunset; also, the time period at the end of the day and before the beginning of the night)
- vēls vakars ― late evening
- ziemas vakars ― winter evening
- vakara saule ― evening sun
- vakara vēsma ― evening breeze
- vakara vēsums ― evening coolness
- ap septiņiem vakarā ― at about seven (o'clock) in the evening
- mācīties pa vakariem ― to study in the evening(s)
- vakara krēsla, vakarkresla ― twilight (lit. evening dusk)
- vakara blāzma, vakarblāzma ― afterglow (lit. evening gleam)
- vakara zvaigzne, vakarzvaigzne ― evening star (= Venus)
- vakara vējš ― evening breeze
- pret vakaru sāka līt ― toward evening it began to rain
- (in the genitive, used adjectivally) evening (typical of that time period; happening d in that time period)
- vakara laikraksts ― evening newspaper
- vakara skola ― evening school
- (figuratively) evening (the final or end phase of some phenomenon)
- mūža, dzīves vakars ― the evening of life (= old age)
- es piedzīvoju uzvaras un smagus zaudējumus, un tagad es eju uz vakara pusi ― I have lived through victories and heavy losses, and now I am going toward evening (= the end)
- evening (a social event taking place at the end of the day)
- dzejas vakars ― poetry evening
- atpūtas vakars ― recreation evening
- jubilejas vakars ― anniversary evening
- jautājumu vakars ― question evening
- saviesīgs vakars ― soirée, party (lit. social evening)
- vakara vadītājs ― evening host, master of ceremonies
- kungu vakars ― gentlemen's evening (party attended only by men)
- (in the genitive, used adjectivally) evening (used or worn for activies or events that happen at the end of the day)
- vakara kleita, vakarkleita ― evening dress
- vakara tērps, vakartērps ― evening clothes
- (with the name of a holiday) eve (the final stage of that holiday; also, the night before that holiday)
- līgo vakars ― Midsummer's Eve
- Mārtiņa vakars ― Martinmas' Eve
- Ziemassvētku vakars ― Christmas' Eve
Usage notes
Vakars is a noun, means “evening” (locative form vakarā “in the evening,” used also as a temporal adverb) while historically related vakar is an adverb, meaning “yesterday” (its nominal counterpart is vakardiena “(the day of) yesterday”).
Declension
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | vakars | vakari |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | vakaru | vakarus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | vakara | vakaru |
dative (datīvs) | vakaram | vakariem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | vakaru | vakariem |
locative (lokatīvs) | vakarā | vakaros |
vocative (vokatīvs) | vakar | vakari |
Derived terms
See also
- Times of day (diennakts daļas):
ausma/rītausma - rīts - priekšpusdiena - pusdiena - pēcpusdiena - vakars - krēsla - nakts - pusnakts
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vakars”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Swedish
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