darr

Possibly from dorrhawk (“the nightjar”), from its similar diet and appearance in flight.

darr (plural darrs)

1. (UK, dialect, Norfolk, archaic) A bird, the black tern.

• “darr”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /darr/
• Rhymes: -arr

From Arabic ضَرَّ (ḍarra).

darr (imperfect jdorr, verbal noun darr)

1. to hurt, to harm

From Arabic ضَرّ (ḍarr).

darr m

1. verbal noun of darr

Perhaps related to darraðr from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“light spear, javelin, dart”).

darr n

1. spear, dart

• Icelandic: darr, dör
• Swedish: dart
• → Middle English: dar

• “darr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Deverbal from darra. Attested since 1917.

darr n

1. tremble

• få stora darren
• med darr på ribban

• darrning

• darr in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• darr in Svensk ordbok (SO)