Gar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gar"

English

Etymology

From Tibetan སྒར (sgar).

Proper noun

Gar

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1972, Kao Yuan-ching, “Changes on the Ari Plateau”, in Great Changes in Tibet [西藏巨变]‎^[1], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

     No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ga'er
• (from Tibetan) Senge Tsangpo

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 噶爾／噶尔 (gaa¹ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 噶爾／噶尔 (zh) (Gá'ěr)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྒར (sgar)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German garn, from Proto-West Germanic *garn.

Cognate with German Garn, Dutch garen, English yarn, Icelandic garn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːr/, [ɡaː(ʀ)]
• Rhymes: -aːʀ
• Homophone: Gare

Noun

Gar n (plural Garen)

1. yarn