char

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English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from charcoal.

Alternative forms

• chewre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/ or IPA^(key): [t͡ʃaː]
• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞] or IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɹ/, [t͡ʃaɹ], [t͡ʃa˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charring, simple past and past participle charred)

1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.

   I charred the wood.

   The wood charred.

2. (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.

3. (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

Synonyms

• coal
• blacken, scorch, sear, singe

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

char (plural chars or char)

1. A charred substance.

Synonyms

• charcoal

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown, perhaps from Celtic, such as Irish ceara (“fiery red”) (found in personal names). Or, perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German schar (“flounder, dab”), from Old Saxon skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardaz, related to *skeraną (“to cut”), referring to its shape. If so, related to shard.

Alternative forms

• charr

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

char (plural chars or char)

2. Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English cherre (“odd job”), from Old English ċierr (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from ċierran (“to turn, change, turn oneself, go, come, proceed, turn back, return, regard, translate, persuade, convert, be converted, agree to, submit, make to submit, reduce”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“a time, turn, occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn, bight, bend”) and kehren (“to sweep”) or umkehren (“to return or reverse”). More at chore, ajar.

Alternative forms

• chare

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, [t͡ʃɑɹ], [t͡ʃɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

char (plural chars)

2. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
3. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
5. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
6. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.

Synonyms

• charlady
• charwoman
• cleaning lady
• cleaning woman

Related terms

• chore

Translations

Verb

char (third-person singular simple present chars, present participle charing or charring, simple past and past participle chared or charred)

1. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
2. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
   • 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Lisa of Lambeth, chapter 2

     Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.

3. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
4. To work or hew (stone, etc.)

Etymology 4

Clipping of character. Used as the name of a data type in some programming languages, including notably C.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ/, /t͡ʃɑː/, /kɛə/, /kɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹ/, /kɛɹ/, /kɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

char (plural chars)

1. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).

   Coordinate terms: byte, double, float, int, long, short

   • 2002, Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25

     .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.

2. (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).

Derived terms

Related terms

• charset
• charstring

Translations

Etymology 5

Non-rhotic spelling of cha.

Noun

char (uncountable)

1. (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”)

See also

References

Anagrams

• -arch, ARCH, Arch, Rach, arch, arch-, arch., rach

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• cha

Etymology

From Hindi चार (cār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕar/

Numeral

char (Bengali script চার)

1. four

Synonyms

• byryi
• por

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• char baki

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: char

Interjection

char

1. a noncommittal reply to an untrue statement
2. spoken after something one has said that is untrue or highly ridiculous

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: ĉar

Conjunction

char

1. H-system spelling of ĉar

Alternative forms

1. ĉar
2. cxar

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French char, from Latin carrus, a loan from Transalpine Gaulish. Doublet of car (“coach”), a borrowing from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /ʃɑʁ/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ʃar/, /ʃau/
• Rhymes: -aʁ
• Homophone: chars

Noun

char m (plural chars)

1. chariot, carriage
2. (parade) float

   Synonym: flotte m or f (Louisiana)

3. (military) tank
4. (North America) car, automobile

   Synonyms: automobile m or f, voiture f

5. (Louisiana) train

   Synonyms: char de chemin de fer m (Louisiana), char de haleine m (Louisiana), char à vapeur m (Louisiana), gros char m (Louisiana), train m

6. (Louisiana, Missouri) train car, coach

   Synonyms: traîneau m (Louisiana), voiture f

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “char”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

Irish

Etymology

cha +‎ -r

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xaɾˠ]

Particle

char (triggers lenition of the following verb)

1. (Ulster) not

   Char dhún mé é. ― I did not close it.

   Char chuala mé é. ― I did not hear it.

Usage notes

Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only with the past tense of regular verbs and some irregular verbs.

Synonyms

• níor (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)

Related terms

• cha (used before other tenses)

Middle French

Alternative forms

• chair

Etymology

From Old French char, charn.

Noun

char f (plural chars)

1. flesh

Descendants

• French: chair

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -ar

Etymology 1

From earlier charn, carn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of carō.

Alternative forms

• car
• carn (early Old French)
• charn (early Old French)

Noun

char oblique singular, f (oblique plural chars, nominative singular char, nominative plural chars)

1. (anatomy) flesh (tissue from an animal in general)
2. meat (flesh of an animal intended to be eaten)

Descendants

• Middle French: char, chair
  • French: chair

Etymology 2

From Latin carrus.

Alternative forms

• carr

Noun

char oblique singular, m (oblique plural chars, nominative singular chars, nominative plural char)

1. cart

Synonyms

• carre f

Descendants

• French: char

Etymology 3

Alternative form of quer

Romani

Noun

char f (plural chara) Anglicized form of ćar

1. grass

2. lawn

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin cārus.

Adjective

char m (feminine singular chara, masculine plural chars, feminine plural charas)

1. dear

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaɾ/, (colloquial) /xa/

Verb

char

1. (Wester Ross) independent past of rach

Usage notes

• Dialectal form of the usual chaidh.

References

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾ]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsaɾ/ [ˈt͡saɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: char

Interjection

char (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜇ᜔) (colloquial, originally gay slang)

1. Clipping of charot.

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• chā

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic شهر (šhar).

Noun

char m (Tifinagh spelling ⵛⵀⴰⵔ, dual chrayn, plural chur or rchura)

1. month

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χar/

Noun

char m

1. aspirate mutation of car (“car”)

Mutation