Tar

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Related terms 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Related terms 2 Hungarian 2.1 Adjectives 3 Irish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Verb 4 Maltese 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Verb 5 Swedish 5.1 Verb

English

Noun

tar

1. A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
2. Coal tar.
3. A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
4. (slang, dated) A sailor, from tarpaulin.

Related terms

• coal tar
• mineral tar
• tar board
• Tar Heel
• tarmacadam, usually abbreviated to tarmac
• tar water
• wood tar

Translations

substance

Arabic: قَطْران (qa.trān) Bosnian: katran m. Catalan: quitrà m. Croatian: katran m. Esperanto: gudro Finnish: terva

Serbian: Cyrillic: катран m. Roman: katran m. Spanish: alquitrán m. Swedish: tjära c. Turkish: katran

coal tar

Catalan: quitrà de carbó m. Esperanto: gudro

Spanish: alquitrán m. Swedish: tjära c.

byproduct of tobacco smoke

Catalan: quitrà m. Esperanto: gudro Finnish: terva

Spanish: alquitrán m. Swedish: tjära c.

sailor

Bosnian: mornar m. Serbian: Cyrillic: морнар m. Roman: mornar m.

Swedish: beckbyxa

Verb

tar

1. To coat with tar.

Translations

• Catalan: enquitranar
• Esperanto: gudri
• Finnish: tervata
• Spanish: alquitranar
• Swedish: tjära

Related terms

• tar and feather

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Hungarian

Adjectives

tar

1. bald

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Irish

Pronunciation

IPA: [tar]

Verb

tar (pres. tagann or tig, past tháinig, past autonomous thángthas, fut. tiocfaidh, v.n. teacht, p.p. tagtha)

1. to come

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic طار (ʈá:ra, to fly)

Verb

tar

1. fly

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Swedish

Verb

tar

1. present tense of tafr:tar

io:tar it:tar ku:tar hu:tar zh:tar