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spar

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See also: SPAR, Spar, spař, spár, spär, and spår

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.

Noun

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spar (plural spars)

  1. A rafter of a roof.
  2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
  3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
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Verb

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spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:
      The church dores were sparred,
      Fast boltyd and barryd,
      Yet wyth a prety gyn
      I fortuned to come in, […]
  2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.

Verb

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spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

  1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
    • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎[1]:
      After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
  2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  3. To contest in words; to wrangle.
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Noun

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spar (plural spars)

  1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
  2. (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
    • 2002, “No Escape” (track 23), in It's All Happening Now‎[2], performed by Lewis Parker (musician), Klashnekoff, and Skriblah Dan Gogh:
      KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars.
    • 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto‎[3], performed by Goldie Looking Chain:
      'Ello clart! How are you doin' spar? Let's have a look at your mobile phone there, that's fuckin' posh, innit? […] that's fuckin' safe, spar!
    • 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars‎[4], performed by Tempa T:
      I don't care if you got friends in your car. Light up your whip and all of your spars.
    • 2014 September 12, “September 12th”‎[5]performed by S.Kalibre:
      Trying to explain to my spars how it is over a spliff. Arguing, cause the media got 'em locked under their lids.

Etymology 3

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From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

Noun

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spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)

  2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
  3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
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  • → Irish: sparra
  • → Welsh: sbar
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Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

Noun

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spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)

  1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection
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Declension of spar
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative spar sparen sparer sparerne
genitive spars sparens sparers sparernes

Etymology 2

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See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

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spar

  1. imperative of spare

See also

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Suits in Danish · farver, kulører (layout · text)
hjerter ruder spar klør

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.

Noun

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spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)

  1. spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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spar

  1. inflection of sparren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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spar

  1. singular imperative of sparen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Related to the verb spara (“to save”).

Adjective

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spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

  1. economical
  2. thrifty

Declension

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positive forms of spar
strong declension
(indefinite) 		singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative spar spör spart
accusative sparan spara
dative spörum sparri spöru
genitive spars sparrar spars
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparir sparar spör
accusative spara
dative spörum
genitive sparra
weak declension
(definite) 		singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative spari spara spara
acc/dat/gen spara spöru
plural (all-case) spöru
comparative forms of spar
weak declension
(definite) 		masculine feminine neuter
singular (all-case) sparari sparari sparara
plural (all-case) sparari
superlative forms of spar
strong declension
(indefinite) 		singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparastur spörust sparast
accusative sparastan sparasta
dative spörustum sparastri spörustu
genitive sparasts sparastrar sparasts
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparastir sparastar spörust
accusative sparasta
dative spörustum
genitive sparastra
weak declension
(definite) 		singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative sparasti sparasta sparasta
acc/dat/gen sparasta spörustu
plural (all-case) spörustu

Jamaican Creole

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Noun

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spar

  1. A friend, a mate, a pal.
    • 2007, “They Fear Me” (track 6), in Gangsta for Life:The Symphony of David Brooks (2007)‎[6], performed by Mavado (singer):
      I'm so far, my main spars dem no near mi. Singing my song to let my enemies hear mi.
      I'm so far better than the competition that my main friends aren't near me in ability. Singing my song to let my enemies hear me.

Middle English

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Verb

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spar

  1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun

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spar

  1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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spar

  1. imperative of spare

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”).

Noun

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spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)

  1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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spar

  1. present of spa
  2. imperative of spara

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Swedish

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Verb

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spar

  1. inflection of spara:
    1. present indicative
    2. imperative

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