angar
See also: ängar, angår, and ångar
Irish
Alternative forms
- amhgar
Etymology
am- (“not”) + gáire (“a laugh”); compare Old Irish ingir (“sorrow, lamentation”).
Noun
angar m (genitive singular angair)
- want, distress, affliction, austerity, privation
Declension
Declension of angar
First declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
| Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- angarach (“distressed, afflicted”, adjective)
- go bun an angair (“to the bitter end”)
- lom-angar (“sheer want, harsh necessity; necessitous person”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| angar | n-angar | hangar | t-angar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “angar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “austerity” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “privation” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “angar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page amhgar
Latin
Verb
angar
- first-person singular future passive indicative of angō
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ɑŋ.ŋɑr/
Noun
angar m
- indefinite plural of ange
Verb
angar
- present tense of ange
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *angraz.
Noun
angar m
- field; meadow
- weevil
References
- "angar" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)
Old Norse
Noun
angar (m)
- nominative plural of angi
Verb
angar
- second/third-person singular present indicative active of anga
Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀁𑀕𑀸𑀭 (aṃgāra), from Sanskrit अङ्गार (aṅgāra).
Noun
angar m (nominative plural angara)
- coal
- charcoal
Descendants
- Angloromani:
- → English: wonga
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “áṅgāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 7
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “angár”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 7b
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o angar, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 62ab