czar
Meaning
- (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
- (Philippine, US, informal) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
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قيصرFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zɑː(ɹ)/
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Caesarbor. Proto-Germanic *kaisarazder. Proto-Slavic *cěsařь Old East Slavic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ) Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ) Russian царь (carʹ)bor. English czar See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from the book Notes on Muscovite Affairs (1549) by Sigismund von Herberstein. It was supplanted by the alternative tsar in the 19th century.
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