jantar

See also: Jantar and jantár

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

Noun

jantar m inan

1. amber

Declension

Declension of jantar (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	jantar	jantary
genitive	jantaru	jantarů
dative	jantaru	jantarům
accusative	jantar	jantary
vocative	jantare	jantary
locative	jantaru	jantarech
instrumental	jantarem	jantary

Derived terms

• jantarový

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

jantar m (plural jantares, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

Verb

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

Conjugation

    Reintegrated conjugation of jantar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	jantar
Personal	jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantarem
Gerund
	jantando
Past participle
Masculine	jantado			jantados
Feminine	jantada			jantadas
Indicative
Present	janto	jantas	janta	jantamos	jantades, jantais	jantam
Imperfect	jantava	jantavas	jantava	jantávamos	jantávades, jantáveis, jantávais1	jantavam
Preterite	jantei	jantaste, jantache1	jantou	jantamos	jantastes	jantárom, jantaram
Pluperfect	jantara	jantaras	jantara	jantáramos	jantárades, jantáreis, jantárais1	jantaram
Future	jantarei	jantarás	jantará	jantaremos	jantaredes, jantareis	jantarám, jantarão
Conditional	jantaria	jantarias	jantaria	jantaríamos	jantaríades, jantaríeis, jantaríais1	jantariam
Subjunctive
Present	jante	jantes	jante	jantemos	jantedes, janteis	jantem
Imperfect	jantasse	jantasses	jantasse	jantássemos	jantássedes, jantásseis	jantassem
Future	jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantarem
Imperative
Affirmative		janta	jante	jantemos	jantade, jantai	jantem
Negative (nom)		nom jantes	nom jante	nom jantemos	nom jantedes, nom janteis	nom jantem

¹Less recommended.

References

• “jantar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• iãtar, iantar, jãtar, yantar

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *iantāre, from Latin ientō, from ieientō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-.

Cognate with Old Spanish yantar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

Noun

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. lunch; dinner (midday meal)
2. a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
   • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

     dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

     you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

Verb

jantar

1. (intransitive) to lunch; to dine

Conjugation

    Conjugation of jantar

infinitive		simple		jantar
		compound		infinitive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
gerund		simple		jantando
		compound		gerund of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
past participle				singular		plural
		masculine		jantado		jantados
		feminine		jantada		jantadas
present participle				jantante		jantantes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative mood		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
simple tenses	present	janto	jantas	janta	jantamos	jantades	jantan
	imperfect	jantava	jantavas	jantava	jantavamos, jantávamos	jantavades, jantávades	jantavan
	preterite	jantei	jantaste, jantasche, jantache	jantou	jantamos	jantastes	jantaron
	pluperfect	jantara	jantaras	jantara	jantaramos, jantáramos	jantarades, jantárades	jantaran
	future	jantarei	jantarás	jantará	jantaremos	jantaredes	jantarán
	conditional	jantaria	jantarias	jantaria	jantariamos, jantaríamos	jantariades, jantaríades	jantarian
compound tenses	present perfect	present of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	present imperfect	imperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	past anterior	preterite of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	pluperfect	simple pluperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	future perfect	future of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
subjunctive mood		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
simple tenses	present	jante	jantes	jante	jantemos	jantedes	janten
	preterite	jantasse	jantasses	jantasse	jantassemos, jantássemos	jantassedes, jantássedes	jantassen
	future	jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantaren
compound tenses	present perfect	present subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	pluperfect	preterite subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
	future perfect	future subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle
imperative mood		—	tu	vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	—
affirmative		—	janta	jante	jantemos	jantade	—
negative		—	non jantes	non jante	non jantemos	non jantedes	—
personal infinitive		eu ei	tu	el~ele ela vossa mercee	nos nos outros nos outras	vos vos outros vos outras	eles elas
		jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantaren
1 Its alternative spelling, aver, can be used as well. 2 teer and ter were used too, though all 3 were less common than forms of "haver".

Descendants

• Galician: xantar
• Portuguese: jantar (see there for further descendants)

References

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “jantar¹ v. intr.”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “jantar² s. m.”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “jantar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jantar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Polish

Etymology

Derived from Lithuanian gintàras, possibly via Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan.tar/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -antar
• Syllabification: jan‧tar
• Homophone: Jantar

Noun

jantar m inan (related adjective jantarowy)

1. (literary) amber (fossil resin)

   Synonym: bursztyn

Declension

Declension of jantar

	singular	plural
nominative	jantar	jantary
genitive	jantaru	jantarów
dative	jantarowi	jantarom
accusative	jantar	jantary
instrumental	jantarem	jantarami
locative	jantarze	jantarach
vocative	jantarze	jantary

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/ [ʒɐ̃ˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/ [ʒɐ̃ˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/ [ʒɐ̃ˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈtaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈtaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈta.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ, (Brazil) -a
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

Noun

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. dinner (evening meal)

   Synonym: (informal) janta

2. (obsolete) lunch; dinner (midday meal)

Verb

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado)

1. to dine

Conjugation

    Conjugation of jantar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	jantar
Personal	jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantarem
Gerund
	jantando
Past participle
Masculine	jantado			jantados
Feminine	jantada			jantadas
Indicative
Present	janto	jantas	janta	jantamos	jantais	jantam
Imperfect	jantava	jantavas	jantava	jantávamos	jantáveis	jantavam
Preterite	jantei	jantaste	jantou	jantamos1, jantámos2	jantastes	jantaram
Pluperfect	jantara	jantaras	jantara	jantáramos	jantáreis	jantaram
Future	jantarei	jantarás	jantará	jantaremos	jantareis	jantarão
Conditional	jantaria	jantarias	jantaria	jantaríamos	jantaríeis	jantariam
Subjunctive
Present	jante	jantes	jante	jantemos	janteis	jantem
Imperfect	jantasse	jantasses	jantasse	jantássemos	jantásseis	jantassem
Future	jantar	jantares	jantar	jantarmos	jantardes	jantarem
Imperative
Affirmative		janta	jante	jantemos	jantai	jantem
Negative (não)		não jantes	não jante	não jantemos	não janteis	não jantem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jantar.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: djantâ, jantâ
• Macanese: jantâ
• → Old Tupi: îandara
  • Nheengatu: yandara

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ), originally from Lithuanian.

Noun

jȁntār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏нта̄р)

1. amber

Declension

Declension of jantar

	singular	plural
nominative	jantar	jantari
genitive	jantara	jantara
dative	jantaru	jantarima
accusative	jantar	jantare
vocative	jantaru	jantari
locative	jantaru	jantarima
instrumental	jantarom	jantarima

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jàːntar/, /jáːntar/

Noun

jāntar m inan

1. amber

Inflection

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.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nominative	jántar
genitive	jántarja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	jántar
genitive (rodȋlnik)	jántarja
dative (dajȃlnik)	jántarju
accusative (tožȋlnik)	jántar
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	jántarju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	jántarjem

Further reading

• “jantar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025