gars

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

gars

1. plural of gar

gars

1. Alternative form of garce (“unit of measure”)

• ARGs, GRAS, Gras, args, rags

From Dutch garst, a variant of gerst, from Middle Dutch gerste, from Old Dutch *gersta, from Proto-West Germanic *gerstu.

• IPA^(key): /χars/

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gars (uncountable)

1. barley

• → Xhosa: írhási

Inherited from Old French gars, the nominative singular of garçon m, from Early Medieval Latin garciō m.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/ ~ /ɡɑ/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɡɔ]

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

gars m (plural gars)

1. lad, guy

   Synonyms: bougre m, mec m, type m

2. (in the plural) guys (usually all male)

• garce f

• “gars”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gras

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot, warm”), see also Welsh gwres (“heat”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡars/

gars m (1st declension)

1. spirit
2. mind, intellect
3. ghost, spectre

   Synonym: rēgs

4. vapor

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “493-95”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 493-95

gars

1. Alternative form of gras

Germanic borrowing, probably from Frankish *gard (“spike, stick”) (with reference to the male's penis).

gars m (plural gars)

1. (Jersey) gander

gars m

1. nominative singular of garçon
2. nominative singular of garçun