# starr
## English
### Alternative forms

* starre, star, Starr
* shetar, sheṭar, shtar, shtarr

### Etymology

From Late Latin starrum, from Hebrew שְׁטָר (šĕṭār).

### Noun

starr (plural starrs or starra)
* (historical) A receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.
** 1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain:It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.
** 1893, Joseph Jacobs, The Jews of Angevin England‎:In the Treasury nil, and bv quittance which the said Gervase and Hugo his son have of the said debt by a Starr which the said Hugo produced at the Treasury before the Barons £90.
** 1932, The Publications of the Selden Society, volume 49, page 1:Huntingdonshirr. son of master Moss the Jew, by his charter, he came before the justices, etc., and proffered certain starrs of acquittance of the said debt which the aforesaid Jacob had made to the aforesaid Nicholas his father, as he says, at the time when the same Jacob had the free administration of his goods.
** 2013, Sarah Rees Jones, Christians and Jews in Angevin England:Later in the same year 'when Burnell had retired from court' he personally acknowledged twenty-two Jewish starra whilst he was staying at Beaulieu.

### Anagrams

* RRATs, Tarrs

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃtar/, [ʃtaʁ], [ʃtaɐ̯], [ʃtaː]
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: Star (some speakers)

### Etymology 1

From Middle High German star, from Old High German *star, from Proto-West Germanic *star.

#### Adjective

starr (strong nominative masculine singular starrer, comparative starrer, superlative am starrsten)
* rigid

##### Alternative forms

* storr (archaic or regional)

##### Related terms

* störrisch

##### See also

* taub

### Etymology 2

See the lemma.

#### Verb

starr
* singular imperative of starren

### Further reading

* “starr” in Duden online
* “starr” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Irish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˠt̪ˠɑːɾˠ/, /sˠt̪ˠaːɾˠ/

### Noun

starr f (genitive singular starra, nominative plural starrtha)
* protrusion (anything that protrudes), prominence (bulge), projection (something which projects)
* (anatomy, biology) process (outgrowth of tissue or cell; structure that arises above a surface.)

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
starr
starrtha
vocative
a starr
a starrtha
genitive
starra
starrtha
dative
starr
starrtha
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an starr
na starrtha
genitive
na starra
na starrtha
dative
leis an starr don starr
leis na starrtha :

#### Derived terms

* starrach
* starrán
* starrfhiacail

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “starr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* steor

### Etymology

From Middle English starre, steorre, from Old English steorra, from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /star/, /stœr/

### Noun

starr (plural starrès)
* star

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69