war
Meaning
- (feminine) confusion, disarray
- (feminine) tangle, mess
- (feminine) an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed
Frequency
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʋɑr/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch werre, warre (“confusion, disarray, conflict”), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-West Germanic *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
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