FromGermanAare, probably from a Celtic language.
Aar
- A river inSwitzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the BerneseAlps into theRhine atKoblenz, on the Swiss–German border.
- A river inGermany that flows 50 km from theTaunus inHesse into theLahn atDiez,Rhineland-Palatinate.
- Atributary inHesse,Germany of theDill river, itself a tributary of theLahn.
Aar f
- the Aar river
FromMiddle High Germanar,arn, fromOld High Germanaro,arn, fromProto-West Germanic*arō, fromProto-Germanic*arô.
Aar m (strong orweak,genitiveAaresorAarsorAaren,pluralAareorAaren)
- (poetic, formal or dated)eagle
- Synonym:Adler
1864, Franz Pfeiffer,Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page245:Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: desAares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.- He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: theeagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
- 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath,Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in hisGedichte, page 315:
Feder desAaren!- Feather of theeagle!
- 1808,Heinrich von Kleist († 1811),Die Herrmannschlacht. Ein Drama, a drama, in:1870,H. v. Kleists Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe. Erster Band, edited by Heinrich Kurz, page 281:
[...] der Habicht rupft / Die Brut desAars [...]- the hawk fleeces / theeagle's brood
Declension ofAar [masculine, strong // weak]
Attested asLate LatinArola,Arula in the 7th century, from a pre-Indo-European hydronym*ar-(“watercourse”), also present in several otherOld European hydronymy names such asAhr inRhineland,Ar inMeurthe-et-Moselle,l'Arc in bothSavoie andBouches-du-Rhône,Hérault (OccitanErau) inHérault,Arre inGard, etc.
die Aar f (proper noun,usually definite,definite genitivederAar)
- Atributary of theRhine inSwitzerland
- A lefttributary of theLahn inRhineland-Palatinate andHesse,Germany
- A lefttributary of theDill inHesse,Germany
- Abranch of theIll,Bas-Rhin department,France
- A lefttributary of theTwiste,Hesse,Germany
Declension ofAar [sg-only, feminine]
- Chronicle of Fredegar, leaflet 130
- Kristol, Andres; Cattin, Florence; Meroni, Barbara; Schmid, Gabrielle, eds. (2005). "Aarau AG (Aarau)" [Encyclopedia of the Swiss municipality of LSG: Dictionnaire de toponymique scommunes Suisses DTS / Dizionario dei comuni toponomastico svizzeri DTS]. Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen LSG: Dictionnaire toponymique de scommunes suisses DTS /Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri DTS (in German) (1st ed.). Stuttgart, Germany: Huber Frauenfeld
