adar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "adar"

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• adaru

Verb

adar (participle adãratã)

1. to do; to create
2. to build, form
3. to decorate, ornament, embellish, adorn
4. to fix, mend, repair
5. to arrange

Synonyms

• (do): fac
• (mend, repair): ndreg

Related terms

• adãrari/adãrare
• adãrat

Basque

adar handiak dituen ahuntza ― a goat with big horns

olibondo adarra ― an olive branch

Etymology

Unknown. Often explained as a Celtic borrowing. Compare Old Irish adarc (“horn”); see there for more.

Alternatively from Proto-Basque *adaR.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /adar/ [a.ð̞ar]
• Rhymes: -adar, -ar
• Hyphenation: a‧dar

Noun

adar inan

1. horn
2. branch

Declension

Declension of adar (inan C-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	adar	adarra	adarrak	adarrok
ergative	adarrek	adarrak	adarrek	adarrok
dative	adarri	adarrari	adarrei	adarroi
genitive	adarren	adarraren	adarren	adarron
comitative	adarrekin	adarrarekin	adarrekin	adarrokin
causative	adarrengatik	adarrarengatik	adarrengatik	adarrongatik
benefactive	adarrentzat	adarrarentzat	adarrentzat	adarrontzat
instrumental	adarrez	adarraz	adarrez	adarrotaz
inessive	adarretan	adarrean	adarretan	adarrotan
locative	adarretako	adarreko	adarretako	adarrotako
allative	adarretara	adarrera	adarretara	adarrotara
terminative	adarretaraino	adarreraino	adarretaraino	adarrotaraino
directive	adarretarantz	adarrerantz	adarretarantz	adarrotarantz
destinative	adarretarako	adarrerako	adarretarako	adarrotarako
ablative	adarretatik	adarretik	adarretatik	adarrotatik
partitive	adarrik	—	—	—
prolative	adartzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

• adabegi (“knot, shake”)
• adabegitsu (“knotty”)
• adabeso (“main branch”)
• adaburu (“treetop”)
• adaburutu (“to prune”)
• adaganeko
• adaje (“horns”)
• adaka (“sprig”)
• adakaitz (“horned sheep”)
• adakera (“horns”)
• adaki (“branch used as firewood”)
• adakitu (“to defoliate”)
• adaondu (“to prune”)
• adapo
• adar-zulo (“yoke strap”)
• adarbakar (“unicorn”)
• adarbakoitz (“unicorn”)
• adardun (“horned”)
• adargabe (“branchless, hornless”)
• adarjotzaile (“prankster”)
• adarjotze (“taunt, joke”)
• adarka (“with the horns”)
• adarka egin (“to gore”)
• adarkada (“goring”)
• adarkadura (“ramification”)
• adarkari (“prone to goring”)
• adarkatu (“to gore, to ramify”)
• adarki (“horn used as a material”)
• adarmotz (“lacking a horn”)
• adarra jo (“to pull someone's leg”)
• adarrak ipini (“to cheat on someone”)
• adarrak jarri (“to cheat on someone”)
• adarrarte (“thicket”)
• adarreko (“a small quantity”)
• adarrondo (“knot, shake”)
• adarrondotsu (“knotty”)
• adartsu (“branchy”)
• adartu (“to ramify”)
• adarzabal (“fallow deer”)
• adaxka (“small branch”)
• adegi (“temple (part of the head)”)
• adondo (“forehead of cattle”)
• ostadar (“rainbow”)

Further reading

• “adar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “adar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Kabyle

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adar/

Noun

adar m (plural idurra)

1. rank

   Synonyms: rrḍeb, ṭṭariǧa, aferrug

   Yerna adar fellasen.

   He surpasses them.

   (literally, “He's placed one rank above them.”)

2. row (line of objects)

   Synonyms: amedwel, ssder

3. (knitting) a knitting row
4. belt notch

Inflection

Inflection of adar

	singular	plural
free state	adar	idurra
annexed state	udar	idurra

References

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آذَار (ʔāḏār), from Classical Syriac ܐܕܪ (ʾāḏār), ultimately from Akkadian 𒌚𒊺 (addāru).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈdɑːɾ/

Noun

Northern Kurdish	adar
Central Kurdish	ئازار (azar)

adar

1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

   Synonym: avdar

Coordinate terms

Gregorian calendar months in Northern Kurdish · Mehên salnameya gregorî (layout · text)
January	February	March	April
kanûna paşîn	sibat	adar	nîsan
May	June	July	August
gulan	hezîran	tîrmeh	tebax
September	October	November	December
îlon	çiriya pêşîn	çiriya paşîn	kanûna pêşîn

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈda(ʁ)/ [aˈda(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈda(ʁ)/ [aˈda(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aˈda(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈda(ʁ)/ [aˈda(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /aˈda(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdaɾ/ [ɐˈðaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdaɾ/ [ɐˈðaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈda.ɾi/ [ɐˈða.ɾi]

Noun

adar m (plural adares)

1. (Judaism) Adar (sixth Jewish month)

Further reading

• “adar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Simalungun Batak

Adverb

adar

1. on time

References

• Zufri Hidayat et al. (2015). Kamus Bahasa Simalungun–Indonesia (2nd ed.). Medan: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara, p. 1.

Tarifit

Root
d-r (lowering)
2 terms

Alternative forms

• ader

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• (Nador) IPA^(key): [ɛ.ða]
• Syllabification: a‧dar
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

adar (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⴰⵔ) (intransitive)

1. (stative) to be low

   Synonym: ḥudar

2. to bend down, to kneel down, to lean

   Synonyms: smeyyeř, arkeɛ

3. to beat with [with ak]

Conjugation

Conjugation of adar

aorist perfective negative perfective imperfective negative imperfective participle yadaren yudaren yudiren yettadaren yettidaren singular plural 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person aorist m adareɣ tadared yadar nadar tadarem adaren f tadar tadarent adarent perfective m udareɣ tudared yudar nudar tudarem udaren f tudar tudarent udarent negative perfective m udireɣ tudired yudir nudir tudirem udiren f tudir tudirent udirent imperfective m ttadareɣ tettadared yettadar nettadar tettadarem ttadaren f tettadar tettadarent ttadarent negative imperfective m ttidareɣ tettidared yettidar nettidar tettidarem ttidaren f tettidar tettidarent ttidarent aorist imperative m adar adarem, adaret f adarent imperfective imperative m ttadar ttadarem, ttadaret f ttadarent injunctive m nadaret f nadarent

References

• Serhoual (2002)
• Abarrou (2024)

Welsh

adar

Etymology

From Old Welsh atar, from Proto-Celtic *ɸatar, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (obl. *pth₂-éns), from the same root as Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos, hence Welsh edn, adain, ehedeg and Old Irish én "bird". Also compare Old Irish ette "feather", English feather, and Latin penna.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈadar/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaːdar/, /ˈadar/
• Rhymes: -adar

Noun

adar (plural, singular aderyn m or deryn m)

1. birds

   Synonyms: ednod, ehediaid

2. (obsolete) young birds, chicks

   Synonyms: adar bach, cywion

Derived terms

• adar bach (“young birds, little birds”)
• adar cariad (“lovebirds”)
• adar cloch (“bellbirds”)
• adar drycin (“shearwaters”)
• adar dŵr (“waterfowl”)
• adar gyddf-felyn (“yellowthroats”)
• adar haul (“sunbirds”)
• adar morgrug (“antbirds”)
• adar o'r unlliw a hedant i'r unlle (“birds of a feather flock together”)
• adar paradwys (“birds of paradise”)
• adar tagellog (“saddlebacks, tīekes”)
• adar tomen (“scrub fowls”)
• adar y llin, adar cywarch (“linnets”)
• adar y si, adar bach y si (“hummingbirds”)
• adar y to (“house sparrows”)
• adar ysglyfaeth (“birds of prey”)
• adara (“to fowl, to catch birds”)
• adardy (“aviary”)
• adareg (“ornithology”)
• adaregol (“ornithological”)
• adaregydd (“ornithologist”)
• adargi (“retriever, setter, spaniel”)
• adarwr (“fowler”)
• adarydd (“ornithologist”)
• adaryddiaeth (“ornithology”)
• aderyn anlwc (“bird of ill omen”)
• clustlys troed aderyn (“ bird's-foot earwort”)
• glud adar, adarlud (“birdlime”)
• gwylio adar (“to birdwatch”)
• lladd dau aderyn ag un ergyd (“kill two birds with one stone”)
• tipyn o dderyn (“bit of a lad”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adar

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
adar	unchanged	unchanged	hadar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “bird”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “adar”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “adar”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies