Aar
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aar"
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɑɹ, -ɑːɹ
Proper noun
[edit]Aar
- A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German border.
- A river in Germany that flows 50 km from the Taunus in Hesse into the Lahn at Diez, Rhineland-Palatinate.
- A tributary in Hesse, Germany of the Dill river, itself a tributary of the Lahn.
Translations
[edit]river in Switzerland
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aar f
- the Aar river
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German ar, arn, from Old High German aro, arn, from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô.
Noun
[edit]Aar m (strong or weak, genitive Aares or Aars or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)
- (poetic, formal or dated) eagle
- Synonym: Adler
- 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:
- Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.
- He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: the eagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
- 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:
- Feder des Aaren!
- Feather of the eagle!
- 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 des Aars [...]
- the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood
Declension
[edit]Declension of Aar [masculine, strong // weak]
Etymology 2
[edit]Attested as Late Latin Arola, Arula in the 7th century, from a pre-Indo-European hydronym *ar- (“watercourse”), also present in several other Old European hydronymy names such as Ahr in Rhineland, Ar in Meurthe-et-Moselle, l'Arc in both Savoie and Bouches-du-Rhône, Hérault (Occitan Erau) in Hérault, Arre in Gard, etc.
Proper noun
[edit]die Aar f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Aar)
- A tributary of the Rhine in Switzerland
- A left tributary of the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Germany
- A left tributary of the Dill in Hesse, Germany
- A branch of the Ill, Bas-Rhin department, France
- A left tributary of the Twiste, Hesse, Germany
Declension
[edit]Declension of Aar [sg-only, feminine]
References
[edit]- 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
Further reading
[edit]- “Aar” in Duden online
- “Aar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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