dar

Meaning

Adj

1. narrow
2. scant
3. close-fitting, tight - (for close-fitting as a textile style, a calque of "body" or "badi" is widely used and understood.)
4. limited

Adv

barely, narrowly

Noun

house, place

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طار, دار (dar, “narrow; difficult; with difficulty”), from Proto-Turkic *tār, *t(i)ār (“narrow”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (tar).

Sentences

Dünya bol olmuş neye yarar , pabuç dar olduktan sonra .

The world is abundant, what good is it, after the shoe is narrow.

Yakası boğazına dar geliyormuş gibi bir hisle elini boynuna götürdü.

He took his hand to his neck with a feeling as if his collar was narrow to his throat.

Ankara'nın asfalt döşeli yollarına hiç benzemeyen bozuk kaldırımlı dar mahalleleri geçtim.

I passed narrow neighborhoods with broken pavements that were nothing like Ankara's asphalt paved roads.