snar

Akin to Low German and Old Dutch snarren, German schnarren.

• IPA^(key): /snɑː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

snar (third-person singular simple present snars, present participle snarring, simple past and past participle snarred)

1. (obsolete) To snarl.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
     And snar at all that ever passed by

• snarl

• “snar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Arns, Nasr, RNAS, RNAs, sRNA, sarn, srna

From Old Norse snarr from snara (“turn”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsnɑˀ]

snar (neuter snart, plural and definite singular attributive snare)

1. (dated) fast, quick

   Synonym: hurtig

• rådsnar
• snarrådig
• lynsnar
• snarlig

• “snar” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse snarr.

• IPA^(key): /stnaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

snar (comparative snarari, superlative snarastur)

1. quick

From Old Norse snarr.

snar (neuter singular snart, definite singular and plural snare, comparative snarere, indefinite superlative snarest, definite superlative snareste)

1. quick, swift

• snarvei

• “snar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse snarr.

snar (neuter singular snart, definite singular and plural snare, comparative snarare, indefinite superlative snarast, definite superlative snaraste)

1. quick, swift

• “snar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse snarr.

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snar (comparative snarare, superlative snarast)

1. near-term, immediate, ready

   min snara återkomst

   my not too distant return

   inom en snar framtid

   within the near future

   inom den snaraste framtiden

   within the nearest future

2. quick (to act or react)

   vara snar att döma

   be quick to judge

• snarlik
• snarstucken
• snartänkt

• snar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• snar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• snar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)