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See also: Guar.
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Hindi ग्वार (gvār), from Sanskrit गोपाली (gopālī, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from गोपालकर्कटी (gopālakarkaṭī, “cowherder's cucumber”), from गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd”) + कर्कटी (karkaṭī, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).
Noun
[edit]guar (plural guars)
- An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
Synonyms
[edit]- (Cyanopsis tetragonoloba): cluster bean, guar bean
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]annual legume
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Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Charrua
[edit]Noun
[edit]guar
References
[edit]- El último charrúa: de Salsipuedes a la actualidad (1996)
- Idioma español y habla criolla: Charrúas y vilelas (1968)
- Čestmír Loukotka, Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62
Malay
[edit]Noun
[edit]guar (plural guar-guar, informal 1st possessive guarku, 2nd possessive guarmu, 3rd possessive guarnya)
- mound, hillock
- Synonym: anak bukit
References
[edit]- “guar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindi ग्वार (gvār), from Sanskrit गोपाली (gopālī, “kind of cucumber”), shortened from गोपालकर्कटी (gopālakarkaṭī, “cowherder's cucumber”), from गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd”) + कर्कटी (karkaṭī, “cucumber”) (see Latin cucumis and cucurbita).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]guar m (plural guares)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “guar”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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- English terms borrowed from Hindi
- English terms derived from Hindi
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
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- en:Legumes
- en:Vegetables
- Charrua lemmas
- Charrua nouns
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Hindi
- Spanish terms derived from Hindi
- Spanish terms derived from Sanskrit
- Spanish 1-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
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- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Vegetables