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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yar

growling sound, imitative, attested from c.1300.

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yar

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To snarl; gnar. 2 (context intransitive chiefly Scotland English) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; be captious or troublesome. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To snarl; gnar. 2 (context intransitive chiefly Scotland English) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; be captious or troublesome. Etymology 2

  1. (context UK dialectal English) sour; brackish. alt. (context UK dialectal English) sour; brackish. Etymology 3

    a. (context nautical of a vessel, especially sailboat English) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.

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Yar

Yar, Yare or Yars may refer to:

Yar (gene)

In molecular biology, Yar (yellow-achaete intergenic RNA) is a long non-coding RNA found in Drosophila. It is located within a neuronal gene cluster between the yellow and achaete genes. It is found in the cytoplasm of cells and is required for the regulation of sleep.

Yar (restaurant)

The Yar (Яр, from French "yard") was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. It was famous for its Sokolovsky gypsy choir. The Yar ran from 1826 to 1925 on the street known as Kuznetsky Most.

The second Yar was opened on the St. Petersburg chaussée built by Adolf Erichson 1909-1913.

The current Yar is in the Sovietsky Hotel on Leningradsky Prospect.

Usage examples of "yar".

So after you have read Metamorphosis, if you are curious about the story of Tasha Yar and Darryl Adin, referred to here, you may decide to seek out Survivors, available wherever Star Trek books are sold.

Adin was referring to the last time he had seen Data-several months ago, after Data had delivered to Adin the personal farewell message prepared by Tasha Yar for the man she loved.

Yarim Paar was a grand building, housing the largest trade association in the province, a confederation of tile artisans, ceramicists, and glassblowers, as well as smiths of all sorts.

Guild in the city center of Yarim Paar was a grand building, housing the largest trade association in the province, a confederation of tile artisans, ceramicists, and glassblowers, as well as smiths of all sorts.

A possum yarred from the big eucalypt Jack had left standing behind to shade the cottage, and Rory answered its challenge with staccato yaps.

SEPTEMBER 1941, German SS troops, assisted by Ukrainian militiamen, gunned down 34,000 Jews at a place called Babi Yar.

The sordes dropped their battering ram and ran after Shahzanan, but Yar raised his achket blade into the sky, sending forth a deluge that melted them into a small pond.

The Shanouin water-priestesses were accorded the highest social status in Yarim, second only to the line of the duke and the benison that Yarim shared with the neighboring province of Canderre.

He was the Blesser of the provinces of Canderre and Yarim, though his basilica, Vrackna, the ringed temple of elemental fire, was located in the province of Bethany.

Yarim in the language of men, a place forgotten by the trade winds, in the shadow of the mountain, at the base of the glacier, on the continental divide, where the ground was barren but the earth held riches, deep and hidden.

Yar Ali Khan yelled bloodthirstily and rushed into the tunnel, brandishing his rifle, with everybody pelting after him except the men detailed to saddle the horses.

Yarim Paar was a grand building, housing the largest trade association in the province, a confederation of tile artisans, ceramicists, and glassblowers, as well as smiths of all sorts.

This yar should not be confused with the attested form yar "to whom", which is not plural but has the old allative ending -r [as in mir "into"] attached.

He remembered what Tasha Yar had told him about the men on Archaria III all wearing long, bushy beards.

Every time he tried to laugh off what the Jew said as just another atrocity story, he kept remembering the scar on the side of Max's neck and the Jewish partisan's obscenely embellished tale of slaughter and horror at Babi Yar.