Aar

== English == === Alternative forms === Aare === Etymology === From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) === 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 == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aʁ/ === Proper noun === Aar f the Aar river === Anagrams === ara == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /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 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315: 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: ===== Declension ===== === 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[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891