Zar

Borrowed both from Czech Žár and Arabic زر.

Zar (plural Zars)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Zar is the 33530^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Zar is most common among White (69.71%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22.79%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Zar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• Raz

• Czar, Zaar (obsolete)

Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Kaiser and Cäsar.

• IPA^(key): /tsaːr/, [t͡saː], [t͡saːɐ̯], [t͡saːr]

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Zar m (weak, genitive Zaren, plural Zaren, feminine Zarin)

1. tsar, czar (Russian monarch)

• Zar is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have a stark tendency to be strong colloquially, so one might hear dem Zar instead of dem Zaren.

• Zarenreich
• Zarentum
• Zarismus

• “Zar” in Duden online
• “Zar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache