spar

(Inglese)

Noun

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
4. Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Verb

1. (dialectal, obsolete) To bolt, bar.
2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

Verb

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/spɑː/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine olandese: spar

Affine tedesco: Sparren

Affine danese: sparre

Affine albanese: shparr

Affine basso tedesco: sparre

Affine tedesco: sich sperren

Affine islandese: sperrast

Affine tedesco: Sparkalk

Affine inglese antico: spæren

In summary

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.

Concetti

barra

albero

🌳

asta

bastone

combattimento fra galli

pennone

sbarra

combattimento tra galli

sinonimi

pole

bar

shaft

rod

staff

stake

mast

stave

sparring

box

📦

handle

argue

squabble

fight

stick

brabble

cane

boom

💥

baton

rafter

scrap

longeron

boxing

dispute

beam

jar

🫙

joist

main

pikestaff

practice

practise

prop

pugilism

quarrel

schist

scuffle

slate

sparry

spear

strife

stringer

struggle

support

tissue

tourney

tug

tussle

web

wrangle

yard

Traduzioni

pal

palo

espar

paal

pau

Stange

mastro

vara

barra

Barre

contus

hasta

asser

trudis

stang