Vardar

See also: vardar, värdar, and vårdar

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βαρδάριος (Bardários), possibly of Thracian origin, from an earlier *Vardários, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wordo- *wori- (“black water”). More at Vardar.

Proper noun

Vardar

1. A river in Europe, which arises in the Republic of North Macedonia, and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
   • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:

     Departure from Salonica is at 7.10 a.m., and the train heads west over the dreary plain and crosses the Vardar, called in modern Greek the Axios, near the station of that name.

Synonyms

• Axios (in Greece)

Derived terms

• Vardarian
• Vardaric