# tara
## English
### Etymology 1

Possibly from Irish tabhair aire (“take care”).

#### Alternative forms

* ta-ra, turrah

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tæˈɹɑː/, /təˈɹɑː/ (note: Stress on 2nd syllable, unlike the proper name Tara)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Interjection

tara
* (UK, Ireland, Northern England, Midlands or informal) Goodbye.
** 2004: Metro in This is London (website of London Evening Standard), Jolie says ta-ra to Lara - Pssst...Actress Angelina Jolie's days as Tomb Raider action hero Lara Croft are over.
    Synonyms: bye, ta ta

##### Usage notes

* Equivalent to the more geographically widespread ta ta.

#### See also

* ta ta

### Etymology 2

From Maori tara (“tern”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑːrɑː/

#### Noun

tara (plural taras)
* (New Zealand, rare) The tern.
** 1909, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 273:These are Hine-karoro (origin and personification of the karoro, or black-billed gull), the next born being Hine-tara (the tara, or tern); the next is Hine-tore. The last born of that lot was Punga, the origin of […]
** 1977, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Treasury of Maori Exploration: Legends Relating to the First Polynesian Explorers of New Zealand, Raupo:Another account says that a tara (tern) and other birds alighted at Tahunatapu, the first part of the fish to surface, and that Maui greeted its appearance with an incantation that included the words : Appears the great land lying […]
** 2003, Margaret Orbell, Birds of Aotearoa: A Natural and Cultural History, Raupo:Most numerous and widespread of the terns of Aotearoa are the tara, or white-fronted terns. Another species, also named tara , is the smaller black-fronted tern. […]
** 2004, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Ross Calman, Reed Book of Maori Mythology, Raupo:Again it is said that the tara (tern) alighted on the new land at Tahunatapu, the first part to emerge from the sea, and was followed by other birds. Māui recited an incantation of welcome which included the words : Appears the […]

### Etymology 3
#### Alternative forms

* tar, tare, tarr

#### Noun

tara (plural taras)
* (India) A small silver coin current in South India at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese.
** 1979, The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, volume 41, page 70:The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.

#### See also

* tara gum

#### References

* Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tara”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

### Anagrams

* taar, ATRA, Arta, A.A.R.T., rata, Atar, atar

## 'Are'are
### Noun

tara
* road

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## Balinese
### Romanization

tara
* Romanization of ᬢᬭ
* Romanization of ᬢᬭᬵ

## Bikol Central

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈɾa/ [taˈɾa]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Interjection

tará (Basahan spelling ᜆᜍ)
* (Naga) Hello
    Synonyms: komusta, nom, nem

### Phrase

tará (Basahan spelling ᜆᜍ)
* (Naga) What's up?
    Synonyms: nom, nem

#### Derived terms

* pataratara
* Tara Kagurangnan Maria

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈta.ɾa]

### Noun

tara f (plural tares)
* defect, imperfection
* tare (empty weight of a container)

### Further reading

* “tara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dalmatian
### Alternative forms

* tiara

### Etymology

From Latin terra. Compare Italian and Portuguese terra, Romansch terra, tiara, teara, Romanian țară, Spanish tierra, French terre.

### Noun

tara f
* earth, ground

## Fijian
### Verb

tara
* (transitive) to touch, to take hold of
* (intransitive, tara-va) to follow, to succeed, to come after

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

tara
* third-person singular past historic of tarer

### Anagrams

* rata, râta

## Hausa
### Etymology 1

Considered by Blench to be likely derived from a Plateau Benue-Congo language; compare Horom taras, Che ataras, Fyam téres, Yeskwa tɔla.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tá.rà/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tə́.rə̀]

#### Numeral

tar̃à f
* nine

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /táː.ɽàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [táː.ɽàː]

#### Verb

tārā̀ (grade 1)
* collect, gather
* add up

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tà.ɽáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tə̀.ɽáː]

#### Verb

tàrā (grade 2)
* go to meet or welcome someone
* buy up something to resell later

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tàː.ɽáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tàː.ɽáː]

#### Noun

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)
* fine (of money)

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tàː.ɽáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tàː.ɽáː]

#### Noun

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)
* being mindful, caring about something

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtara]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Malay tara, from Classical Malay tara (“equal”), probably from Old Javanese tara (“excellence, superiority”).

#### Noun

tara
* comparable, equal, equivalent
    Synonyms: banding, imbang, sama

##### Derived terms

* bertara
* kesetaraan
* menarakan
* menyetarakan
* penyetara
* penyetaraan
* setara
* tertara

### Etymology 2

From Minangkabau [Term?].

#### Noun

tara
* nailed wooden tools for making lines on wood

### Etymology 3

Unknown. Possibly from Sanskrit तर (tara, “surpassing, excelling”). Compare to Indonesian tera (“stamp, seal”).

#### Noun

tara
* picture, picture
    Synonyms: angan, imaji, gambar

### Etymology 4

From Dutch tarra, from Italian tara, from Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

#### Noun

tara
* tare (the empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight)

### Further reading

* “tara” 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.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ra/
* Rhymes: -ara
* Hyphenation: tà‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

#### Noun

tara f (plural tare)
* tare
* defect, vice, flaw
* (archaic) deficiency

##### Derived terms

* tarare

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: tarra
** → Indonesian: tara
* → Estonian: taara
* → German: Tara
** → Russian: тара (tara)
* → Middle French: tare
** French: tare
*** → Romanian: tară
** → English: tare
* → Ottoman Turkish: طاره (dara)
** → Middle Armenian: տառայ (taṙay)
*** Armenian: տարա (tara)
** → Romanian: dara
* → Polish: tara
* → Serbo-Croatian: tara / тара
* → Swedish: tara
** → Finnish: taara

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tara
* inflection of tarare:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* tara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* atra, rata

## Japanese
### Romanization

tara
* Rōmaji transcription of たら

## Javanese
### Romanization

tara
* Romanization of ꦠꦫ

## Laboya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [taːra]

### Noun

tara
* thorn

### References

* Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “tara”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

## Livonian
### Alternative forms

* tarā (Courland)

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tarha, related to Finnish tarha.

### Noun

tara
* fence
* garden

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtara]

### Noun

tara (Lontara spelling ᨈᨑ)
* anus

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaː.ra/

### Verb

tara
* second-person singular imperfect of ra
* third-person feminine singular imperfect of ra

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tala (“spine, prong”) – compare with Tahitian tara (“horn, spur, sting”), Tongan tala and Samoan tala. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

tara
* spike, point
** thorn of a plant
** tooth of a comb, tine of a fork
** spine of a fish, barb of a stingray
** skewer
* peak of a mountain

### Verb

tara
* (of the sun) to shine rays, to irradiate
* to disturb, to ruffle

### Derived terms

* taratara
* whakatara
* whakataratara

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 527-9
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tala.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tara”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 451
* “tara” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Miskito
### Adjective

tara
* big, large
    Antonym: sirpi

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit तर (tara, “intensifier”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ra/
* Rhymes: -ra
* Homophone: tāra
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Adverb

tara
* intensifier

### Noun

tara
* manner, style
* peculiarity
* excellence, superiority

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦠꦫ (tara)
* >? Malay: tara
** Indonesian: tara

### Further reading

* "tara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑀭 (Brahmi script)
* तर (Devanagari script)
* তর (Bengali script)
* තර (Sinhalese script)
* တရ (Burmese script)
* ตร or ตะระ (Thai script)
* ᨲᩁ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕຣ or ຕະຣະ (Lao script)
* តរ (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄢 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Part of or extracted from the verb tarati.

### Verb

tara
* third-person singular present active of tarati (“to cross over”)

### Noun

tara m
* The Pali root tar
** [c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 36:62. Tara taraṇasmiṃ thara santharaṇe bhara bharaṇasmiṃ phara sampharaṇe sara gati-cintā-hiṃsā-sadde phura calanādo hara haraṇamhi62. Tar for crossing, thar for spreading, / bhar for supporting, phar for pervasion, / sar for motion, thought, crushing and noise, / phur for shaking, har for taking.]

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: ta‧ra

### Etymology 1

From trzeć.

#### Noun

tara f
* washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)
    Synonym: tarka

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa).

#### Noun

tara f
* tare (the empty weight of a container)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* tara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -aɾɐ
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”). Compare Italian tara and French tare, taré (“crazy”).

#### Noun

tara f (plural taras)
* tare (the empty weight of a container)
* (colloquial) obsession, mania
    Synonyms: mania, obsessão
* (colloquial) flaw, defect
    Synonym: defeito
* (slang) sexual fetish or desire
    Synonyms: perversão, fetiche

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tara
* inflection of tarar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Rohingya
### Alternative forms

* 𐴃𐴝𐴌𐴝 (tara) — Hanifi Rohingya script

### Noun

tara (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴝𐴌𐴝)
* star

## Romanian
### Noun

tara f (plural tarale)
* Alternative form of tară

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Italian tara, possibly through Ottoman Turkish طاره (dara).

### Noun

tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling та̏ра)
* tare

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪a.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Syllabification: ta‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tara, from Andalusian Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of Arabic طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

#### Noun

tara f (plural taras)
* tare (empty weight of a container)
* defect, flaw, vice
* deficiency

##### Derived terms

* destarar
* tarar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tara
* inflection of tarar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “tara”, 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

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English tother.

### Adjective

tara
* Obsolete form of tra.

### References

* ↑ Norval H.S. Smith (1987) The genesis of the Creole languages of Surinam (PhD)‎, Universiteit van Amsterdam, page 226

## Sundanese
### Etymology

teu (“not”) + ara (“ever”, Banten dialect)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ra/
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Adverb

tara
* never; rarely
    Synonym: tilok (Banten)
    "Urang mah tara ulin di mal, da di imah waé.""I rarely go to the mall, I'm always at home."

### References

* ↑ "Ara" in 'Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek.pdf, S. Coolsma, A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1913, page 28.

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Possibly from tayo na or from tana.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈɾa/ [t̪ɐˈɾa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ta‧ra

#### Interjection

tará (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ) (colloquial)
* let's go!
    Synonyms: tana, tayo na, (backslang) arat, (slang) taralets
    Tara, alisan na. ― Let's go, it's time to leave.
* (Bataan) goodbye! (when about to leave)

##### Derived terms

* arat
* taralets

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tara.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪aː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Syllabification: ta‧ra

#### Noun

tara (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ)
* tare (empty weight of a container, used to determine the weight of its contents)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪aː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Syllabification: ta‧ra

#### Noun

tara (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ) (obsolete)
* wedding gift given to equal the gift given by the other side to the newlyweds (either from the bride's or the groom's side)

### Anagrams

* arat

## Tahitian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tala (“spine, prong”) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

tara
* thorn, spike
* sting of an insect
* spur
* horn

### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tala.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Further reading

* Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
* “tara” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

## Tarifit
### Noun

tara f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵔⴰ, plural tariwin)
* Alternative spelling of tařa: spring, fountain

## Turkish
### Noun

tara (definite accusative tarayı, plural taralar)
* grain

### Verb

tara
* second-person singular imperative of taramak

## Votic
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tarha.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈtɑrɑ/, [ˈtɑrɑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
* Hyphenation: ta‧ra

### Noun

tara
* vegetable garden

#### Inflection
### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “tara”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn