tsar

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• Received-Pronunciation: /(t)sɑː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /zɑː/
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• US: /(t)sɑɹ/
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• US: /zɑɹ/
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• Australian: /zɐː/
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• Australian: /tsɐː/
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• Scotland: /(t)saɾ/
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• Scotland: /zaɾ/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)
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• homophone: Saar (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: Z AA1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T S AA1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Latin Caesarbor. Proto-Germanic *kaisarazder. Proto-Slavic *cěsařь Old East Slavic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ) Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ) Russian царь (carʹ)bor. English tsar Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Caesar and Kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Byzantine Greek Τζαῖσαρ (Tzaîsar).

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tsaar — an emperor
• Albanian: car — an emperor
• Arabic: تْسَار (tsār) — an emperor
• Arabic: قَيْصَر (qayṣar) — an emperor
• Armenian: ցար (cʻar) — an emperor
• Azerbaijani: çar — an emperor
• Belarusian: цар (car) — an emperor
• Bengali: জার (jar) — an emperor
• Bulgarian: цар (car) — an emperor
• Carpathian Rusyn: царь (carʹ) — an emperor
• Catalan: tsar — an emperor
• Chinese: хуонвон (huonvon) — an emperor
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙皇 (shāhuáng) — an emperor
• Chinese Mandarin: 察罕汗 (cháhǎnhàn) — an emperor
• Chukchi: тиркэрым (tirkėrym) — an emperor
• Crimean Tatar: çar — an emperor
• Czech: car — an emperor
• Danish: zar — an emperor
• Dutch: tsaar — an emperor
• Esperanto: caro — an emperor
• Estonian: tsaar — an emperor
• Faroese: sarur — an emperor
• Finnish: tsaari — an emperor
• French: tsar — an emperor
• French: tzar — an emperor
• Gagauz: ţar — an emperor
• Georgian: ცარი (cari) — an emperor
• German: Zar — an emperor
• Greek: τσάρος (tsáros) — an emperor
• Hebrew: צָאר (tsar) — an emperor
• Hindi: ज़ार (zār) — an emperor
• Hindi: त्सार (tsār) — an emperor
• Hindi: जार (jār) — an emperor
• Hungarian: cár — an emperor
• Icelandic: tsar — an emperor
• Ido: caro — an emperor
• Ido: carulo — an emperor
• Indonesian: tsar — an emperor
• Ingrian: kuningas — an emperor
• Irish: sár — an emperor
• Italian: zar — an emperor
• Japanese: ツァーリ (tsāri) — an emperor
• Japanese: ツァー (tsā) — an emperor
• Japanese: ツァール (tsāru) — an emperor
• Karelian: čuari — an emperor
• Kashubian: césôrz — an emperor
• Kazakh: патша (patşa) — an emperor
• Kazakh: царь (sar) — an emperor
• Khmer: ត្សារ (tsaa) — an emperor
• Korean: 차르 (chareu) — an emperor
• Korean: 짜리 (jjari) — an emperor
• Northern Kurdish: qeyser — an emperor
• Northern Kurdish: çar — an emperor
• Kyrgyz: падыша (padışa) — an emperor
• Kyrgyz: царь (tsar) — an emperor
• Latvian: cars — an emperor
• Lithuanian: caras — an emperor
• Macedonian: цар (car) — an emperor
• Malay: czar — an emperor
• Manchu: ᠴᠠᡤᠠᠨ ᡥᠠᠨ (cagan han) — an emperor
• Marathi: त्सार (tsār) — an emperor
• Marathi: जार (jār) — an emperor
• Mongolian: цагаан хаан (cagaan xaan) — an emperor
• Mongolian: царь (carʹ) — an emperor
• Classical Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (čaɣan kaɣan) — an emperor
• Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan) — an emperor
• Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (čaɣan kaɣan) — an emperor
• Norwegian Bokmål: tsar — an emperor
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tsar — an emperor
• Church Slavic: цѣсарь (cěsarĭ) — an emperor
• Church Slavic: царь (carĭ) — an emperor
• Old East Slavic: цьсарь (cĭsarĭ) — an emperor
• Old East Slavic: царь (carĭ) — an emperor
• Pannonian Rusyn: чисар (čisar) — an emperor
• Pannonian Rusyn: цар (car) — an emperor
• Pashto: تزار (tazãr) — an emperor
• Iranian Persian: تِزار (tezâr) — an emperor
• Iranian Persian: تِسار (tesâr) — an emperor
• Polish: car — an emperor
• Portuguese: tsar — an emperor
• Portuguese: czar — an emperor
• Portuguese: tzar — an emperor
• Romanian: țar — an emperor
• Russian: царь (carʹ) — an emperor
• Russian: импера́тор (imperátor) — an emperor
• Northern Sami: cára — an emperor
• Skolt-Sami: caarr — an emperor
• Serbo-Croatian: ца̏р — an emperor
• Serbo-Croatian: cȁr — an emperor
• Slovak: cár — an emperor
• Slovene: cár — an emperor
• Spanish: zar — an emperor
• Swahili: czar — an emperor
• Swedish: tsar — an emperor
• Tagalog: sar — an emperor
• Tajik: подшоҳ (podšoh) — an emperor
• Tajik: шоҳ (šoh) — an emperor
• Tajik: тсар (tsar) — an emperor
• Tatar: патша (patşa) — an emperor
• Thai: ซาร์ (saa) — an emperor
• Turkish: çar — an emperor
• Turkmen: patyşa — an emperor
• Turkmen: şa — an emperor
• Turkmen: tsar — an emperor
• Udmurt: эксэй (eksej) — an emperor
• Udmurt: царь (car) — an emperor
• Ukrainian: цар (car) — an emperor
• Urdu: زار (zār) — an emperor
• Urdu: تْسار (tsār) — an emperor
• Urdu: تِسار (tisār) — an emperor
• Uyghur: چار (char) — an emperor
• Uzbek: podsho — an emperor
• Uzbek: shoh — an emperor
• Uzbek: tsar — an emperor
• Vietnamese: sa hoàng — an emperor
• Vietnamese: Nga hoàng — an emperor
• Volapük: zar — an emperor
• Volapük: hizar — an emperor
• Yiddish: צאַר (tsar) — an emperor
• Esperanto: caro — a person with great power; an autocrat
• Portuguese: tsar — a person with great power; an autocrat
• Russian: царь (carʹ) — a person with great power; an autocrat
• Russian: коро́ль (korólʹ) — a person with great power; an autocrat