-dar
UK/-dɑː/US/-dɑɹ/
-dar suffix: forming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing.
Suffix
-dar
- Forming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing.
Origin of -dar
Probably from rebracketing of gaydar, itself a blend of gay + radar. Alternatively radar might have been rebracketed directly as ray + -dar, but this appears less likely because rays are, if anything, that by means of which a radar detects things.
Words that rhyme with -dar
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- water bar
- char
- tar
- var
- AAR
- bazaar
- caviar
- lodestar
- Mullingar
- Myanmar
- scar
- ajar
- arr
- barre
- boudoir
- cigar
- cymar
- czar
- disbar
- gar
- guitar
- haar
- instar
- lar
- Loire
- noir
- NPR
- omar
- schwar
- their
- tl;dr
- tsar
- TTR
- upbar
- USSR
- yar
- AGR
- alcazar
- armoire
- au revoir
- bahar
- baignoire
- Bashar
- beaux-arts
- beer bar
- Berger Picard
- Bihar
- bête noire
Questions about -dar
- What does -dar mean?
- -dar means forming nouns denoting a putative ability to detect a thing.
- What part of speech is -dar?
- -dar is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -dar?
- -dar is pronounced /-dɑː/ (UK).
Words near -dar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: -dar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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