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paar

paar noun: a hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area.

Noun

paar (plural paars)

  1. A hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area.
    • By the end of early Eocene time a paar developed between Africa and Arabia which caused tensional forces in the southern Red Sea area (Swartz and Arden, 1960).1976, AAPG Bulletin, volume 60, numbers 1-6, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, page 410

Proper noun capitalized: Paar

Paar

  1. A surname.

paar meaning in Tamil

paar in Tamil

முத்துச்சிப்பிகள் ஒட்டிவளரும் பாறைகள்

Forms of paar

pluralpaars

Origin of paar

* As a German surname, from Middle Low German pār (“house of a priest”), from Latin parochia (“parish”). * Also as a German surname, from the noun Paar (“pair, married couple”). This is also found in several Slavic countries, compare Par. * As a Hungarian surname Paár, variant of Pár, see Par.

Questions about paar

What does paar mean?
Paar means a hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area.
What is paar in Tamil?
Paar in Tamil is முத்துச்சிப்பிகள் ஒட்டிவளரும் பாறைகள். See Paar meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paar?
Paar can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of paar?
The plural of paar is paars.

Words near paar in the dictionary

  1. paanakam
  2. Paang Bundok
  3. paans
  4. paanwallah
  5. paanwallahs
  6. paar
  7. Paaratte
  8. paarite
  9. Paarl
  10. paars
  11. Paarthiba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paar (page history and authors); Paar (page history and authors); paar (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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