# datar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From data +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [dəˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [daˈtaɾ]

### Verb

datar (first-person singular present dato, first-person singular preterite datí, past participle datat)
* (transitive) to date (put a date on)

#### Related terms

* data
* datació

### Further reading

* “datar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “datar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “datar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “datar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Anagrams

* ardat, tarda, tardà

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay datar, from Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ. Doublet of latar and rata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdatar/
* Hyphenation: da‧tar

### Adjective

datar
* flat (having no variations in altitude)

### Verb

datar (used in the form mendatar)
* to be horizontal

#### Conjugation
### Derived terms

* dataran
* mendatar
* mendatarkan
* pendataran
* sedatar

### Further reading

* “datar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ. Doublet of rata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /data(r)/
* Rhymes: -ata(r), -ta(r), -a(r)

### Adjective

datar (Jawi spelling داتر)
* flat (having no variations in altitude)

#### Derived terms

* dataran
* datarkan
* kedataran
* mendatar
* mendatarkan
* pendatar
* pendataran

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: datar

### Verb

datar (used in the form mendatar)
* to be horizontal

### Further reading

* “datar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

datar
* present tense of date

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From data +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /daˈta(ʁ)/ [daˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /daˈta(ʁ)/ [daˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /daˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /daˈta(ʁ)/ [daˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /daˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɐˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɐˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɐˈta.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: da‧tar

### Verb

datar (first-person singular present dato, first-person singular preterite datei, past participle datado)
* (transitive) to date (estimate the age of)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* datável

### Further reading

* “datar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “datar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “datar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “datar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “datar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “datar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From data +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daˈtaɾ/ [d̪aˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: da‧tar

### Verb

datar (first-person singular present dato, first-person singular preterite daté, past participle datado)
* (transitive) to date, assign a date to
* (intransitive) to date
    Las letras podrían datar de la Guerra Civil Española.The letters may date to the Spanish Civil War.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* antedatar

### Further reading

* “datar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10