cár

From Russian царь (carʹ), from Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), ultimately from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡saːr]
• Rhymes: -aːr

cár (plural cárok)

1. tsar, czar, tzar

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	cár	cárok
accusative	cárt	cárokat
dative	cárnak	cároknak
instrumental	cárral	cárokkal
causal-final	cárért	cárokért
translative	cárrá	cárokká
terminative	cárig	cárokig
essive-formal	cárként	cárokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	cárban	cárokban
superessive	cáron	cárokon
adessive	cárnál	cároknál
illative	cárba	cárokba
sublative	cárra	cárokra
allative	cárhoz	cárokhoz
elative	cárból	cárokból
delative	cárról	cárokról
ablative	cártól	cároktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	cáré	cároké
non-attributive possessive - plural	cáréi	cárokéi

Possessive forms of cár
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	cárom	cárjaim
2nd person sing.	cárod	cárjaid
3rd person sing.	cárja	cárjai
1st person plural	cárunk	cárjaink
2nd person plural	cárotok	cárjaitok
3rd person plural	cárjuk	cárjaik

• cár in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cár in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• rác

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠ/^[1]

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cár m (genitive singular cáir or cárach)

1. mouth (showing teeth); grin, grimace
2. (collective) teeth; set of teeth

• cáraí m (“grinner, grimacer”)

From cá +‎ -r.

cár

1. where

   Cár chodail tú aréir? ― Where did you sleep last night?

   Cár chuala tú é sin? ― Where did you hear that?

Used only with the past tense of regular and some irregular verbs. Triggers lenition of a following consonant.

cár (copular form used before a consonant, present/future form used before a vowel cárb, past/conditional form used before a vowel cárbh)

1. where is..., what is...

   Cár locht ortsa é? ― What fault is it of yours?

2. where was/would be..., what was/would be

   Cár thairbhe domsa é? ― What would it profit me?

   Cár chás má dúirt sé é? ― What would it matter if he said it?

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Derived from Russian царь (carʹ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡saːr/

cár m pers (female equivalent cárovná)

1. emperor of Russia
2. emperor of Bulgaria
3. czar／tsar／tzar

• cárov
• cárovič m
• cárica f
• cárik m
• cársky
• cárstvo n

• cisár n

• “cár”, in Slovníkový 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, 2003–2024