sangar

See also: sängar

English

Alternative forms

• sangah, sanger, sungah, sungar, sungha

Etymology

From Pashto سنګر (sangar) or from Persian سنگر (sangar).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋə/

Noun

sangar (plural sangars)

1. (military, UK) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 422:

     At the summits of these the enemy sharpshooters waited for them in sangars, or rock-built entrenchments, each of which had to be taken before the advance could safely continue.

   • 2002, Stephen Hughes, The Iraqi Threat and Saddam Hussein′s Weapons of Mass Destruction, page 140:

     A sangar is a breastwork in the form of stonewalls built without bounding material. If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the sangar.

   • 2003, Mike Ryan, Secret Operations of the SAS, page 81:

     As the sun finally set, the rebels rushed the sangars, but were cut to pieces by the deadly accurate SAS fire.

   • 2007, David Humphry, Siege, page 205:

     The game′s up, thought Piet as the Burghers returned fire and moved forward to attack the sangar.

Anagrams

• Nagras, Ragans, argans, rangas

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sankari.

Noun

sangar (genitive sangari, partitive sangarit)

1. hero

Declension

Declension of sangar (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		sangar	sangarid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	sangari
genitive			sangarite
partitive		sangarit	sangareid
illative		sangarisse	sangaritesse sangareisse
inessive		sangaris	sangarites sangareis
elative		sangarist	sangaritest sangareist
allative		sangarile	sangaritele sangareile
adessive		sangaril	sangaritel sangareil
ablative		sangarilt	sangaritelt sangareilt
translative		sangariks	sangariteks sangareiks
terminative		sangarini	sangariteni
essive		sangarina	sangaritena
abessive		sangarita	sangariteta
comitative		sangariga	sangaritega

Synonyms

• kangelane

Derived terms

• sangarlik