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)

1. want, distress, affliction, austerity, privation

Declension

Declension of angar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative angar vocative a angair genitive angair dative angar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-angar genitive an angair dative leis an angar don angar

Derived terms

• angarach (“distressed, afflicted”, adjective)
• go bun an angair (“to the bitter end”)
• lom-angar (“sheer want, harsh necessity; necessitous person”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of angar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
angar	n-angar	hangar	t-angar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “angar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “austerity”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “privation”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “angar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page amhgar

Latin

Verb

angar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of angō

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɑŋ.ŋɑr/

Noun

angar m

1. indefinite plural of ange

Verb

angar

1. present tense of ange

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angraz.

Noun

angar m

1. field; meadow
2. weevil

References

• "angar" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

Old Norse

Noun

angar (m)

1. nominative plural of angi

Verb

angar

1. 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)

1. coal
2. 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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 62ab