car

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} karr-tan (br) m
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} aŭto (eo)
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} automóbil (gl) m
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} kóche, ^{(please verify)} mba'yru
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} mobil (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} automobile
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} tirimpêl (ku), ^{(please verify)} erebe (ku), ^{(please verify)} seyare (ku)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} carrus m
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} karozza (mt) f
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} waka (mi), ^{(please verify)} kā, ^{(please verify)} motokā (mi)
• Swahili: (nc 5/6) ^{(please verify)} gari (sw)
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} வண்டி (ta) (vaṇṭi), ^{(please verify)} வாகணம் (vākaṇam)
• Tetum: ^{(please verify)} karreta
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} รถ (th) (rōht)

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• bus
• truck
• van

Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

car (plural cars)

1. (programming) The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.

   Antonym: cdr

   Holonym: cons

   • 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:

     The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

• cadr
• caddr

• 
  A hydrogen-powered car
• 
  Freight cars
• 
  A self-propelled passenger car
• 
  Ferris wheel cars
• 
  Car on a sailboat
• 
  Car of a Zeppelin

• “car”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “car”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• ARC, CRA, RAC, RCA, acr-, arc, arc-, rac-

• caru

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Compare Romanian car.

car n (plural cari)

1. chariot
2. ox-cart

• cãrutsã/carotsã
• cãrutsar
• caretã
• cherã

car

1. mouth

Inherited from Latin cārus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Mallorca, Menorca) [ˈka], (Ibiza) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car (feminine cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural cares)

1. expensive

   Synonyms: alt, costós

   Antonym: barat

2. (poetic) dear

   Synonyms: estimat, amat, apreciat

Inherited from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare French car.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car

1. (archaic) as, since, because, for

   Synonym: perquè

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάροιον (károion, “yard, spar”), from Ancient Greek κεραίᾱ (keraíā).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

car m (plural cars)

1. (nautical) foreyard

• “car” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sar]
• Hyphenation: car
• Rhymes: -ar

car m anim

1. tsar

• “car”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “car”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʁ

From Old French quer (“as, since, because, for”), from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare Catalan car.

car

1. as, since, because, for

   J’ai ouvert mon parapluie car il pleuvait.

   I opened my umbrella because it was raining.

   • c. 1656–1662, Blaise Pascal, “Dossier de travail - Fragment n° 10 / 35”, in Pensées [Thoughts]‎^[4]:

     Car dans la création de l’homme Adam en était le témoin et le dépositaire de la promesse du sauveur qui devait naître de la femme, lorsque les hommes étaient encore si proches de la Création qu’ils ne pouvaient avoir oublié leur création et leur chute.

     For in the creation of man, Adam was the witness and the depositary of the promise of the saviour who would be born of woman, when the men were still so close to the Creation that they could not have forgotten their creation and their fall.

car is a coordinating conjunction while parce que is a subordinating conjunction.

• parce que (in some contexts)

Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.

car m (plural cars)

1. a single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus, a coach

   Synonym: autocar

   Les élèves vont à l’école en car. ― The pupils go to school by coach.

• “car” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “car” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “car”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• arc

car (comparative plus car, superlative le plus car)

1. dear; beloved; cherished
2. expensive

From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *karāyeti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /karˠ/

car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)

1. to love
2. be devoted to

• gráigh

Akin to Italian caro, from Latin carus.

car

1. dear

car

1. for (because)

• French: car

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cārus.

• Audio:

  (file)

car m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural caras)

1. dear
2. expensive

car oblique singular, m (oblique plural cars, nominative singular cars, nominative plural car)

1. Alternative form of char

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car

1. dear

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Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ). Doublet of cesarz, cezar, and kajzer.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sar/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: car

car m pers

1. (historical) czar, tsar, tzar (title of the former emperors of Russia)

   Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka

• car in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• car in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin carrus (“wagon; cart”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈkaɐ̯ɾ]

• (Ville Unite):

car m (plural chër) (Ville Unite)

1. wagon, cart

• IPA^(key): [kar]

From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Sense 3 is influenced by French char and/or Italian carro armato.

car n (plural care)

1. cart
2. chariot
3. (outdated) tank (military vehicle)

• căruță
• cărare
• căra
• caretă
• încărca

car

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

From Latin caries or carius. Doublet of carie.

• cariu (dated)

car m (plural cari)

2. death-watch beetle

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).

car m (genitive singular cuir, plural caran)

1. job
2. twist, turn
3. trick (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. bit

• aig a' char as lugha
• aig a' char as miosa
• cuir car de

car

1. somewhat, quite, rather

   Tha thu car fadalach. ― You're somewhat late.

   Thig an stòiridh gu ceann car obann. ― The story came to an end somewhat abruptly.

• caran

From Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, *cьsarь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sâr/

cȁr m (Cyrillic spelling ца̏р)

1. czar, emperor, monarch

   Podajte caru carevo, a Bogu Božje. ― Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor and God what belongs to God.

   • 1971, Branko B. Radičević, Baš-Čelik, Belgrade, page 1:

     Bijaše jedan car, i imađaše tri sina i tri ćerke.

     There once was a tsar and he had three daughters and three sons.

• cȁrevina
• cȁrica
• cȁrina
• cȃrstvo

• “car” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Serbo-Croatian cȁr, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sàːr/, /t͡sáːr/

cār m anim (female equivalent caríca or cārinja)

1. tsar

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• césar

• “car”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Latin quārē (“why”).

car

1. (archaic) because

   Synonym: porque

• “car”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): [tʃar]

car (nominative plural cars)

1. (weaponry) bow

From Middle Welsh carr, from Proto-Brythonic *karr, from Proto-Celtic *karros.

• IPA^(key): /kar/

car m (plural ceir)

1. car

• rhif car (“registration number”)
• sêl cist car (“car boot sale”)

From Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.

• IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• Homophones: caure, core

car

1. car

   Synonyms: thraame, truckle

   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 6:

     An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,

     And away went her eggs, with the car overset.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129

car

1. god