• enPR:jär
  • (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/dʒɑː/,[d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)]
  • (General American)IPA^(key):/d͡ʒɑɹ/,[d͡ʒɑɹ]
  • (General Australian)IPA^(key):/dʒɐː/,[d͡ʒɐː(ɹ)]

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)

Inherited fromMiddle Englishjarre(“jar”), fromMedieval Latinjarra,^[1] or fromMiddle Frenchjarre(“liquid measure”) (fromOld Frenchjare; modernFrenchjarre(“earthenware jar”)), or fromSpanishjarra,jarro(“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all fromArabicجَرَّة(jarra,“earthen receptacle”).

The word is cognate withItaliangiara(“jar; crock”),Occitanjarro,Portuguesejarra,jarro(“jug; ewer, pitcher”).^[2]

The verb is derived from the noun.^[3]

jar (pluraljars)

1. (originally) Anearthenwarecontainer, either with two or nohandles, forholdingoil,water,wine, etc., or used forburial.[from late 16th c.]
   • 17th century?, “There’s Whiskey in the Jar”, inColm O Lochlainn, compiler,Irish Street Ballads: Collected and Annotated […], New York, N.Y.: Corinth Books, published1960,→OCLC,page24:

     As I was going over the far fam'd Kerry mountain / I met with Captain Farrell [a]nd his money he was counting, / I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier, / Sayin', "Stand and deliver for you are my bold deceiver,["] / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in thejar / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in thejar.

   • 1848,Leigh Hunt, “Introduction. A Blue Jar from Sicily, and a Brass Jar from the ‘Arabian Nights;’ and What Came Out of Each.”, inA Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, London:Smith, Elder, and Co., […],→OCLC,page 3:

     [A] certain fisherman, after throwing his nets to no purpose, and beginning to be in despair, succeeded in catching ajar of brass.[…] But presently there came out of thejar a vapour, and it rose up towards the heavens, and reached along the face of the earth; and after this, the vapour reached its height, and condensed, and became compact, and waved tremulously, and became an Ufreet (evil spirit),[…]

   • 1914,W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “The Valley Cemetery”, inTarkhan II (British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account: Nineteenth Year, 1913; XXV), London: School of Archaeology in Egypt,University College,[…] andBernard Quaritch, […],→OCLC,page 2, column 2:

     The first view shows the body in the grave, looking southwards; the stack of offeringjars lies outside of a little court for offerings which is seen beyond them. Below this is a nearer view of the grave alone. Here is skeleton is in place, an alabaster bowl lies between the face and the knees, and a slate palette over that. Fivejars stand around the body.

   • 2008, Judith A. Neiswander, “Individuality and Eclectic Internationalism”, inThe Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home 1870–1914, New Haven, Conn., London: Published for thePaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art byYale University Press,→ISBN,page46:

     Lucy Orrinsmith praised the charms of green glazed vases from the Aures mountains and Tunisian coarse clay and terracottajars.

3. Asmall, approximatelycylindrical container, normally made ofclay orglass, forholdingfruit,preserves, etc., or forornamental purposes.

   Synonyms:cruse,pot

   • 1855, “On Physics, or Natural Philosophy. No. LIX. Effects Produced by the Accumulation of both Electricities.”, in[Robert Wallace], editor,The Popular Educator, volume VI, London:John Cassell, […],→OCLC,page507, column 1:

     The Leydenjar is charged, like the condenser of Œpinus and the fulminating square, by making one of the armatures communicate with the earth and the other with the electric source.

   • 1865 March 14, G. K. Geyelin, “The Laws of Nature: In Relation to Poultry Keeping from a Commercial Point of View”, in George W. Johnson, Robert Hogg, editors,The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman. […], volume VIII, number 207 (New Series; volume XXXIII, issue 859 (Old Series)), London: Published for the proprietors, […],→OCLC,page219, column 2:

     These important deficiencies in air-tightjars for preserving eggs have led me to invent ajar purposely for egg preserving, and whichjar is not only perfectly air-tight, but it will show at a glance whether it is so, and how long it remains so, by means of its patent pneumatic self-indicating cap.

4. A container and itscontents; as much asfills such a container; ajarful.
   • 1911 November 21,William A[rthur] Bone, “Surface Combustion in a Boiler”, inPower: Devoted to the Generation and Transmission of Power, volume34, number21, New York, N.Y.: Hill Publishing Co.,→OCLC,page767, column 3:

     A smaller plate was immersed, while the combustion was in active operation, in a glassjar of carbonic acid gas without any diminution of the incandescence of its surface, showing that the combustion is independent of the atmosphere in which takes place.

   • 2010 July 27,Christina Perri, “Jar of Hearts”, inLovestrong:

     Who do you think you are? / Runnin' 'round leaving scars / Collecting yourjar of hearts / And tearing love apart

5. (British,Ireland,colloquial) A pint glass
6. (British,Ireland,colloquial,metonymic) A glass ofbeer orcider, served by the pint.
   • 2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), inHorsing Around‎^[1], performed by Richie Kavanagh:

     About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auldjars.

• jorum(possibly related)

jar (third-person singular simple presentjars,present participlejarring,simple past and past participlejarred)

1. (transitive) Topreserve (food) in ajar.

   Synonym:bottle

   • 2014, Bridget Heos, “Getting Started”, inJarring and Canning: Make Your Own Jams, Jellies, Pickles, and More (Urban Gardening and Farming for Teens), New York, N.Y.:Rosen Publishing,→ISBN,page17:

     It's important to consider the safety ofjarring food. Eating food that has been spoiled because it wasn'tjarred properly correctly can result in the disease botulism.

From earlierjar,jur,jarre,jurre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier*char,*chur,*charre,*churre (now speltchirr,churr(“to make a sound”); compare alsonightjar and its variantnightchurr), fromMiddle English*chirren,*cherren,*churren(“to sound, cry, murmur, complain”), fromOld Englishċeorian(“to murmur, gripe, complain with just cause”), fromProto-West Germanic*karēn(“to complain”). For the change ofch toj, compare alsocharm,jarm(“chirping”);achar,ajar(“slightly turned or open”),chaw,jaw, etc. The noun is derived from the verb.^[4]

jar (countable anduncountable,pluraljars)

1. (countable) Aclashing ordiscordantset ofsounds, particularly with aquivering orvibrating quality.
2. (countable, alsofiguratively) A quivering or vibratingmovement orsensation resulting from something beingshaken orstruck.

   Synonym:jolt

   • c.1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:

     [...] yet (good-deed) Leontes,
     I loue thee not aIarre o'th' Clock, behind
     What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?
     

   • 1852 March –1853 September,Charles Dickens, “Closing In”, inBleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1853,→OCLC,page468:

     Through the stir and motion of the commoner streets; through the roar andjar of many vehicles, many feet, many voices; with the blazing shop-lights lighting him on, the west wind blowing him on, and the crowd pressing him on; he is pitilessly urged upon his way, and nothing meets him, murmuring, "Don't go home!"

   • 1908,G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton,The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol:J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London:Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company,→OCLC,page258:

     The next instant the automobile had come with a catastrophicjar against an iron object.

3. (countable, by extension) Asense ofalarm ordismay.
4. (countable) The effect of somethingcontradictory ordiscordant; aclash.
   • 1891,Thomas Hardy,Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page29:

     Besides thejar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.

5. (countable, nowrare) Adisagreement, adispute, aquarrel;(uncountable)contention,discord;quarrelling.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC, stanza 26,page212:

     So loue does raine / In ſtouteſt minds, and maketh monſtrous warre; / He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yett his peace is but continualliarre: / O miſerable men, that to him ſubject arre.

   • 1594, [William Shakespeare],Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London:[…]Richard Field, […],→OCLC, [verse 17], lines[97–100]:

     I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſeſinowie necke in battelnere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in eueryiarre;[…]

   • 1624, Richard Pots, William Tankard,G. P., William Simons, compiler, “Chapter XII. The Arrivall of the Third Supply.”, inIohn Smith,The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London:[…] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes,→OCLC, book 3; reprinted inThe Generall Historie of Virginia,[...] (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.:The World Publishing Company,1966,→OCLC,page89:

     To redreſſe thoſejarres and ill proceedings, the Treaſurer, Councell, and Company ofVirginia, not finding that returne, and profit they expected; and them ingaged there, not having meanes to ſubſiſt of themſelues, made meanes to his Maieſtie, to call in their Commiſſion,[…]

   • 1718,[Daniel Defoe],A Vindication of the Press: Or, An Essay on the Usefulness of Writing, on Criticism, and the Qualification of Authors. […], London: Printed for T. Warner, […],→OCLC,page 7:

     But of late the populace ofFrance are not so perfectly enclouded with Superſtition, and if a young Author can pretend to Divine, I think it is eaſy to foreſee that the papal Power will in a very ſhort ſpace be conſiderably leſſen’d if not in a great meaſure diſregarded in that Kingdom, by the inteſtineJarrs and Diſcords of their Parties for Religion, and the Deſultory Judgments of the moſt conſiderable Prelates.

jar (third-person singular simple presentjars,present participlejarring,simple past and past participlejarred)

1. (transitive) Toknock,shake, orstrikesharply, especially causing aquivering orvibratingmovement.

   He hit it with a hammer, hoping he couldjar it loose.

   • 1850 April 24, “Discussion on Railway Axes, and on the Structural Changes which Iron is Supposed to Undergo from Vibration and Concussion. […]”, inJ[oseph] C[linton] Robertson, editor,The Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, volume LII, number1397, London: Robertson and Co., Mechanics’ Magazine Office, […], published18 May 1850,→OCLC,page394, column 1:

     [T]he wrought iron arms of a fly-wheel werejarred loose in the cast iron rim, and broke off quite short from the rapid and continued violent shocks caused by the cam striking the helve, although the iron was of the toughest description originally.

   • 1868,W[illiam] Saunders, “[Appendix to Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts. Appendix (G). Report of ‘the Fruit Growers Association of Ontario,’ with Local Reports Annexed.] Report on the Fruit Crop in the Vicinity of London during 1868, with Remarks on Their Insect Enemies and Diseases”, inSessional Papers. Second Session of the FirstParliament of the Province of Ontario., volume I, part II, Toronto, Ont.: Hunter, Rose & Co. printers,→OCLC,page199:

     The most reliable process [for removingcurculios] is that ofjarring the trees and collecting the insects on a cotton sheet spread under the tree.[…] [I]n this manner a dozen or more of trees can bejarred and the results carefully collected in about fifteen or twenty minutes.

2. (transitive) Toharm orinjure by such action.
3. (transitive,figuratively) Toshock orsurprise.

   I think the accidentjarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.

5. (transitive,figuratively) Toact indisagreement oropposition, toclash, to beat odds with; tointerfere; todispute, toquarrel.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e.,Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XLIIII”, inAmoretti andEpithalamion. […], London:[…] [Peter Short] forWilliam Ponsonby,→OCLC,signature [C7], verso:

     VVhen thoſe renoumed^{[sic – meaningrenowned]} noblePeres of Greece, / thrugh ſtubborn pride amongſt theſelues didiar / forgetfull of the famous golden fleece, / thenOrpheus vvith his harp theyr ſtrife did bar.

   • 1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost. […], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:

     For Orders and Degrees /Jarr not with liberty, but well conſiſt.

6. (ambitransitive) To (cause something to) give forth arudelytremulous or quiveringsound; to (cause something to)sounddiscordantly orharshly.

   The clashing notesjarred on my ears.

   • 1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i],page126, column 1:

     How irkſome is this Muſick to my heart? / When ſuch Stringsiarre, what hope of Harmony?

   • 1680,Horace, translated by Earl of Roscommon [i.e.,Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon],Horace’s Art of Poetry. […], London:[…]Henry Herringman […],→OCLC,page24:

     Be not too rigidly Cenſorious, / A ſtring mayjarr in the beſt Maſters hand, / And the moſt skilfull Archer miſs his aim; / But in a Poem elegantly writ, / I will not quarrel with a ſlight miſtake, / Such as our Natures frailty may excuſe; [...]

7. (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
8. (intransitive,figuratively) Of theappearance,form,style, etc., of people and things: tolookstrangelydifferent; tostand outawkwardly from itssurroundings; to beincongruent.

• jarring(adjective)
• jarry
• jarsome

•  jar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• JRA,Raj,ajr,raj

jar

1. water

• Antoinette Schapper,The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 177

• IPA^(key):[ˈjar]

jar

1. genitiveplural ofjaro

• IPA^(key):/ˈcar/

jar

1. (intransitive) tocome out

• jarda
• jarek
• jarekda

• Harrison, Sheldon P.,Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

jar

1. them
2. their

jar m (definite singularjaren,indefinite pluraljarer,definite pluraljarene)

1. form removed with thespelling reform of 2005;superseded byjare

jar m (definite singularjaren,indefinite pluraljarar,definite pluraljarane)

1. alternative form ofjare

FromProto-West Germanic*jār.

jār n

1. year

• Middle Dutch:jâer
  • Dutch:jaar
    • Afrikaans:jaar
    • Berbice Creole Dutch:jari
    • Jersey Dutch:jâr
    • Negerhollands:jaer,jaar,yer
    • Sranan Tongo:yari
      • Aukan:yali
      • Saramaccan:jáa
      • → Caribbean Javanese:yari
  • Limburgish:jaor
  • West Flemish:joar
  • Zealandic:jaer,jaor

• “jār”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

jār n

1. Alternative form ofjēr(“year”)

FromProto-West Germanic*jār, fromProto-Germanic*jērą, fromProto-Indo-European*yeh₁-.

jār n

1. year

• hiuro,hiuri
  • Middle High German:hiure
    • Cimbrian:hôar
    • German:heuer

• Middle High German:jār
  • Alemannic German:Jòòr,Jààr
  • Bavarian:Jåhr,Joar,Joa

    Cimbrian:jaar,djar(Luserna)

    Mòcheno:jor

  • Central Franconian:Johr

    Hunsrik:Joher

    Luxembourgish:Joer

  • German:Jahr
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German:Johr,Yaahr

  • Swabian:Joar,Johr

    Sathmar Swabian:Johr

  • Vilamovian:jür
  • Yiddish:יאָר(yor)

• gēr

FromProto-West Germanic*jār, fromProto-Germanic*jērą, fromProto-Indo-European*yeh₁-.

jār n

1. year

• Middle Low German:jâr,jaer
  • German Low German:Jåhr,Jahr,Johr
  • Plautdietsch:Joa

• IPA^(key):/ˈjar/

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• Rhymes:-ar
• Syllabification:jar

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*jarъ.

jar m inan

1. (archaic)spring(season)

Borrowed fromUkrainianяр(jar), from aTurkic language.

jar m inan

1. canyon,ravine

• jar inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed fromOld Church Slavonicжаръ(žarŭ), fromProto-Slavic*žarъ.

jar n (pluraljaruri)

1. burningcoals
2. intenseheat,fire,glow

   Synonyms:arșiță,dogoare,căldurămare

• jariște

• cărbune
• foc

FromProto-Mon-Khmer*ɟarʔ(“quick; to run”).

jar^[1]

1. torun

• jerjar
• je'nar

• deeq(“to run away”)

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*jarъ(“spring”).

• IPA^(key):/jâːr/

jȃr m (Cyrillic spellingја̑р)

1. (archaic,Croatia)spring
2. swelter,intenseheat (also figuratively)

• For quotations using this term, seeCitations:jar.

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*jarь. Cognate withSerbo-Croatianјар/jar, dialectalBulgarian andRussianяра(jara). Non-Slavic cognates includeGothic𐌾𐌴𐍂(jēr,“year”).

• IPA^(key):[jar]

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jar f (genitivesingularjari,nominativepluraljari,genitivepluraljarí,declension pattern ofkosť)

1. spring(season)

   Synonym:(literary)vesna

• jarný

• seasons:ročné obdobia:jar ·leto ·jeseň ·zima ^[edit]

• “jar”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

jar

1. tocut

jar

1. Romanization of𒃻(g̃ar)

jar (Tifinagh spellingⵊⴰⵔ)

1. between,among

   jar ubrid d yeɣzar

   Between the road and the river.

• ja

jar

1. the