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čar f

  1. genitive plural of čára

čar (classifier bôh)

  1. country, nation

čar

  1. a land or region; a country, province, city, etc.

    čar Dak Lak

    Đắk Lắk Province

    čar Êjip

    the land of Egypt

    čar Ƀaƀilôn

    the city of Babylon

čar f

  1. Pan-Vlax spelling of ćar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čȃrъ, čȃrь (Russian ча́ры (čáry), Polish czar), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (to do, make, build) (Sanskrit करोति (karóti), Lithuanian kùrti). Slavic forms with čar- (compare čárati) presuppose a nominal lengthened-grade derivation, i.e. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kēr- (Lithuanian kẽras (charm, magic)). Serbo-Croatian i-stem is probably an archaism - lengthened grade is expected in PIE root nouns which yield Balto-Slavic i-stems. PIE root probably already had magical connotations, i.e. denoting remote action by magical means. First attested in the 16th century.

čȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ча̑р)

  1. charm, allure
  2. spell, magic
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