# Aar
## English
### Alternative forms

* Aare

### Etymology

From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːɹ/
* Rhymes: -ɑɹ, -ɑːɹ

### Proper noun

Aar
* A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German border.
* A river in Germany that flows 50 km from the Taunus in Hesse into the Lahn at Diez, Rhineland-Palatinate.
* A tributary in Hesse, Germany of the Dill river, itself a tributary of the Lahn.

#### Translations
### See also

* AAR
* De Aar

### Further reading

* Aar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Anagrams

* ARA, Ara, RAA, ara

## French
### Proper noun

Aar f
* the Aar river

### Anagrams

* ara

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /aːɐ̯/
* Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

### Etymology 1

From Middle High German ar, arn, from Old High German aro, arn, from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô.

#### Noun

Aar m (strong or weak, genitive Aares or Aars or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)
* (poetic, formal or dated) eagle
    Synonym: Adler
** 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: the eagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
** 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:
    Feder des Aaren!Feather of the eagle!
** 1808, Heinrich von Kleist († 1811), Die Herrmannschlacht. Ein Drama, a drama, in: 1870, H. v. Kleists Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe. Erster Band, edited by Heinrich Kurz, page 281:
    [...] der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars [...]the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood

##### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

### Etymology 2

Attested as Late Latin Arola, Arula in the 7th century, from a pre-Indo-European hydronym *ar- (“watercourse”), also present in several other Old European hydronymy names such as Ahr in Rhineland, Ar in Meurthe-et-Moselle, l'Arc in both Savoie and Bouches-du-Rhône, Hérault (Occitan Erau) in Hérault, Arre in Gard, etc.

#### Proper noun

die Aar f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Aar)
* A tributary of the Rhine in Switzerland
* A left tributary of the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, Germany
* A left tributary of the Dill in Hesse, Germany
* A branch of the Ill, Bas-Rhin department, France
* A left tributary of the Twiste, Hesse, Germany

##### Declension
### References

* Chronicle of Fredegar, leaflet 130
* Kristol, Andres; Cattin, Florence; Meroni, Barbara; Schmid, Gabrielle, eds. (2005). "Aarau AG (Aarau)" [Encyclopedia of the Swiss municipality of LSG: Dictionnaire de toponymique scommunes Suisses DTS / Dizionario dei comuni toponomastico svizzeri DTS]. Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen LSG: Dictionnaire toponymique de scommunes suisses DTS /Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri DTS (in German) (1st ed.). Stuttgart, Germany: Huber Frauenfeld

### Further reading

* “Aar” in Duden online
* “Aar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891