# waar
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwaːr/ [ˈwaːɾ]
* Hyphenation: waar

### Noun

wáar m
* eternal life, immortality

#### Declension

absolutive
wáar
predicative
wáara
subjective
wáar
genitive
wáar
Postpositioned forms
l-case
wáaral
k-case
wáarak
t-case
wáarat
h-case
wáarah :

#### Derived terms

* dalci-waará

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “waar”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑːr/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch waar, from Middle Dutch waer, from Old Dutch *war, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

#### Adverb

waar
* (interrogative) where
* (relative) where

### Etymology 2

From Dutch waar, from Middle Dutch wâer, from Old Dutch *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz.

#### Adjective

waar (attributive ware, not comparable)
* true

##### Derived terms

* waarheid

## Bavarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βaː/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

waar
* first-person singular subjunctive of sei (“to be”)
* third-person singular subjunctive of sei (“to be”)

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋaːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: waar
* Rhymes: -aːr

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wāer, from Old Dutch *war, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. Cognate with English where.

#### Adverb

waar
* (interrogative) where, in which place
    Waar is Jan?Where is John?
* (relative) where, the place that
    Dit is waar hij woont.This is where he lives.
* pronominal adverb form of wat
** (interrogative) what, which thing
    Waar is dat goed voor?What is that good for?
** (relative) what, that which
    Dit is waar dat goed voor is.This is what that is good for.
* (informal, formerly proscribed, relative) pronominal adverb form of wie; who
    Dat is de man waar ik vroeger mee gewerkt heb.That is the man who I used to work with.

##### Usage notes

With a preposition, waar is used instead of wat to create a pronominal adverb. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.

##### Derived terms

See Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: waar
* Javindo: waar
* Jersey Dutch: wääir
* Negerhollands: waar, wa
* Petjo: waar
* Skepi Creole Dutch: war

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch wâer, from Old Dutch *wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz.

#### Adjective

waar (not comparable)
* true
    Antonyms: onwaar, vals
* authentic
    Synonyms: echt, authentiek
    Antonyms: onecht, vals
* legitimate

##### Derived terms

* onwaar
* waarachtig
* waarheid
* waarmaken
* waarmerk
* waarnemen
* waarschijnlijk
* waarschuwing
* waarzeggen
* weliswaar

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: waru
* Negerhollands: waar

### Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch wāre, from Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *warō, probably related to *waraz (“wary, watchful”). Cognate with English ware.

#### Noun

waar f (plural waren)
* a commodity, ware, merchandise, product
    Synonym: goed

##### Derived terms

* eetwaar
* handelswaar
* koopwaar
* rookwaar
* smokkelwaar

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

waar
* inflection of waren:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Kalasha
### Noun

waar
* time

## Kamarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ.

### Noun

waar
* root (of plant)

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* war
* wor
* wo

### Etymology

From Middle Low German wār, wōr, wūr, from Old Saxon hwār.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːr/, [ʋɔːɾ]

### Adverb

waar
* (interrogative) where (at what place)
* (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)
* (interrogative, with a preposition) what, which thing
* (relative, with a preposition) what, that which
* (relative) when, that (on which; at which time)

#### Synonyms

* woneem, 'neem

## Nzadi
### Noun

wǎàr (plural mǎàr)
* A canoe.

### Further reading

* Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN