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sungar

sungar is the alternative form of sangar.

Meaning of sangar

Noun

sangar (plural sangars)

  1. (UK) A fortified breastwork, niche, or look-out post, especially one built of stone, sod, or sandbags.
    • […] sandbag sangars on the site of the new block-houses were occupied by the men, Pathans all, of a composite militia and constabulary force who had spent the day with pick and shovel behind the protecting line of British infantry.1920, The Cornhill Magazine (William Makepeace Thackeray), page 202

Forms of sungar

pluralsungars

Questions about sungar

What is sungar the alternative form of?
Sungar is the alternative form of sangar.

Words near sungar in the dictionary

  1. Sung-tzu
  2. sunga
  3. sungah
  4. sungahs
  5. Sungai Penuh
  6. sungar
  7. Sungari
  8. sungars
  9. sungas
  10. sungazer
  11. sungazers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sungar (page history and authors); sangar (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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