jantar

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjantar]

jantar m inan

1. amber

• “jantar”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “jantar”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

jantar m (plural jantares, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

• “jantar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• iãtar, iantar, jãtar, yantar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *iantāre, from Latin ientō, from ieientō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-.

Cognate with Old Spanish yantar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. lunch; dinner (midday meal)
2. a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
   • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

     dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

     you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

jantar

1. (intransitive) to lunch; to dine

• Galician: xantar, xentar
• Portuguese: jantar, jentar, jintar (see there for further descendants)

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “jantar¹ v. intr.”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “jantar² s. m.”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “jantar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jantar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Derived from Lithuanian gintàras,^[1] possibly via Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan.tar/

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• Rhymes: -antar
• Syllabification: jan‧tar
• Homophone: Jantar

jantar m inan (related adjective jantarowy)

1. (literary) amber (fossil resin)

   Synonym: bursztyn

• jantar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jantar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ, (Brazil) -a
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. dinner (evening meal)

   Synonym: (informal) janta

2. (obsolete) lunch; dinner (midday meal)

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado)

1. to dine

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jantar.

• Kabuverdianu: djantâ, jantâ
• Macanese: jantâ
• → Língua Geral Amazônica: îandara
  • Nheengatu: yandara

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ), originally from Lithuanian.

jȁntār m inan (Cyrillic spelling ја̏нта̄р)

1. amber

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): /jàːntar/, /jáːntar/

jāntar m inan

1. amber

• “jantar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025