zar
zar noun: a religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.
Noun
zar (uncountable)
- A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: ZAR
ZAR
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Zar
Zar (plural Zars)
- A surname.
Forms of zar
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | zaar |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Zars |
Origin of zar
From Arabic زَار (zār).
Initialism of Afrikaans or Dutch Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, "South African Republic".
Borrowed both from Czech Žár and Arabic زر.
Questions about zar
- What does zar mean?
- Zar means a religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.
- What part of speech is zar?
- Zar can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near zar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: zar (page history and authors); ZAR (page history and authors); Zar (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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