spar

See also: spár, spär, and spår

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /spɑː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /spɑɹ/, [spɑɹ], [spɑ˞]
  • 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)

  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, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
      The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].
  4. (nautical) A general term denoting 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
Translations
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Verb

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

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
  2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
Derived terms

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

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:
      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.
Translations

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 (plural spars)

  1. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
  2. (mineralogy) Any crystal with no readily discernible faces.
Translations

Anagrams

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)

  1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection

Etymology 2

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

spar

  1. imperative of spare

See also

Suits in Danish · farven, kulører (layout · text)
hjerter ♥ ruder ♦ spar ♠ klør ♣

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

  • IPA(key): /spɑr/
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  • Hyphenation: spar
  • Rhymes: -ɑr

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
  • Nordmannspar
  • zilverspar

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃpaːɐ̯]

Verb

spar

  1. Imperative singular of sparen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of sparen.

Icelandic

Adjective

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

  1. economical
  2. thrifty

Declension

    positive (weak declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative spari spara spara
accusative spara spöru spara
dative spara spöru spara
genitive spara spöru spara
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative spöru spöru spöru
accusative spöru spöru spöru
dative spöru spöru spöru
genitive spöru spöru spöru
    comparative
singular masculine feminine neuter
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
    superlative (strong declension)
singular masculine feminine neuter
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

Kurdish

Noun

spar ?

  1. errand

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Noun

spar

  1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Verb

spar

  1. imperative of spare

References

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 tense of spa
  2. imperative of spara

References

Swedish

Verb

spar

  1. present tense of spara.
  2. imperative of spara.
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