čar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃar]

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

• ƀuôn

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.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃâːr/

čȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ча̑р)

1. charm, allure
2. spell, magic

• čaroban

• “čar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Skok, Petar (1971) “čar”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 295
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 362