tara

Possibly from Irish tabhair aire (“take care”).

• ta-ra, turrah

• IPA^(key): /tæˈɹɑː/, /təˈɹɑː/ (note: Stress on 2nd syllable, unlike the proper name Tara)

• Audio (Southern England):

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tara

1. (UK, Ireland, Northern England, Midlands or informal) Goodbye.
   • 2004: Metro in This is London (website of London Evening Standard), Jolie says ta-ra to Lara - Pssst...Actress Angelina Jolie's days as Tomb Raider action hero Lara Croft are over.

   Synonyms: bye, ta ta

• Equivalent to the more geographically widespread ta ta.

• ta ta

Borrowed from Maori tara (“tern”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːrɑː/

tara (plural taras)

1. (New Zealand, rare) The tern.
   • 1909, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 273:

     These are Hine-karoro (origin and personification of the karoro, or black-billed gull), the next born being Hine-tara (the tara, or tern); the next is Hine-tore. The last born of that lot was Punga, the origin of […]

   • 1977, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Treasury of Maori Exploration: Legends Relating to the First Polynesian Explorers of New Zealand, Raupo:

     Another account says that a tara (tern) and other birds alighted at Tahunatapu, the first part of the fish to surface, and that Maui greeted its appearance with an incantation that included the words : Appears the great land lying […]

   • 2003, Margaret Orbell, Birds of Aotearoa: A Natural and Cultural History, Raupo:

     Most numerous and widespread of the terns of Aotearoa are the tara, or white-fronted terns. Another species, also named tara , is the smaller black-fronted tern. […]

   • 2004, Alexander Wyclif Reed, Ross Calman, Reed Book of Maori Mythology, Raupo:

     Again it is said that the tara (tern) alighted on the new land at Tahunatapu, the first part to emerge from the sea, and was followed by other birds. Māui recited an incantation of welcome which included the words : Appears the […]

• tar, tare, tarr

tara (plural taras)

1. (India) A small silver coin current in South India at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese.
   • 1979, The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, volume 41, page 70:

     The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.

Borrowed from Spanish tara, ultimately from Quechua tara.

tara (plural taras)

1. A plant native to Peru, the spiny holdback, Tara spinosa
   • 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour. The latter has been found to be an unapproved food additive.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tara”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• taar, ATRA, Arta, A.A.R.T., rata, Atar, atar

tara

1. road

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): /tarə/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

From Sanskrit तर (tara, “surpassing, excelling”).

tara (Balinese script ᬢᬭ)

1. extra

Borrowed from Old Javanese tāra (“star”), from Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).

tara (Balinese script ᬢᬭᬵ)

1. star

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾa/ [taˈɾa]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

tará (Basahan spelling ᜆᜍ)

1. (Naga) Hello

   Synonyms: komusta, nom, nem

tará (Basahan spelling ᜆᜍ)

1. (Naga) What's up?

   Synonyms: nom, nem

Borrowed from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈta.ɾa]

tara f (plural tares)

1. defect, imperfection
2. tare (empty weight of a container)

• “tara”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• tiara

From Latin terra. Compare Italian and Portuguese terra, Romansch terra, tiara, teara, Romanian țară, Spanish tierra, French terre.

tara f

1. earth, ground

tara

1. (transitive) to touch, to take hold of
2. (intransitive, tara-va) to follow, to succeed, to come after

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁa/

• Audio:

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tara

1. third-person singular past historic of tarer

• rata, râta

Hausa numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: tar̃à

possibly cognate with Kabyle tẓa, Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⵥⴰ (tẓa) from Proto-Berber *tăẓa & Proto-Semitic *tišʕ-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *tVsʕ-. But considered by Blench to be likely derived from a Plateau Benue-Congo language; compare Horom taras, Che ataras, Fyam téres, Yeskwa tɔla.

• IPA^(key): /tá.rà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tə́.rə̀]

tar̃à f

1. nine

• IPA^(key): /táː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [táː.ɽàː]

tārā̀ (grade 1)

1. collect, gather
2. add up

• IPA^(key): /tà.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tə̀.ɽáː]

tàrā (grade 2)

1. go to meet or welcome someone
2. buy up something to resell later

• IPA^(key): /tàː.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tàː.ɽáː]

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)

1. fine (of money)

• IPA^(key): /tàː.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tàː.ɽáː]

tā̀rā f (possessed form tā̀rar̃)

1. being mindful, caring about something

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtara/ [ˈt̪a.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

Inherited from Malay tara, from Classical Malay tara (“equal”), probably from Old Javanese tara (“excellence, superiority”).

tara

1. comparable, equal, equivalent

   Synonyms: banding, imbang, sama

From Minangkabau [Term?].

tara

1. nailed wooden tools for making lines on wood

Unknown. Possibly from Sanskrit तर (tara, “surpassing, excelling”). Compare to Indonesian tera (“stamp, seal”).

tara

1. picture, picture

   Synonyms: angan, imaji, gambar

Borrowed from Dutch tarra, from Italian tara, from Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

tara

1. tare (the empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight)

• tarra

Borrowed from Nias [Term?].

tara

1. small banana on the last bunch

• “tara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: tà‧ra

From Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “reject, deduct”).

tara f (plural tare)

1. tare
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. (archaic) deficiency

• tarare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tara

1. inflection of tarare:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

• tara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• atra, rata

tara

1. Rōmaji transcription of たら

tara

1. romanization of ꦠꦫ

Possibly from ikatana or from itana.

IPA^(key): /təˈɾa/ [təˈɾä]

tara (colloquial)

1. let's go!

   Synonyms: tana, ikatana, (backslang) arat, (slang) taralets

   Tara mako tana. ― Let's go, it's time to leave.

2. come on; hurry up; quick

   Synonyms: mekeni, lagua, bilis

   Tara magsaya 1!2!3! ― Come on, let's have some fun 1!2!3!

• IPA^(key): [taːra]

tara

1. thorn

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “tara”, in Lamboya word list‎^[4], Leiden: LexiRumah

• tarā (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *tarha, related to Finnish tarha.

tara

1. fence
2. garden

• IPA^(key): [ˈtara]

tara (Lontara spelling ᨈᨑ)

1. anus

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.ra/

tara

1. second-person singular imperfect of ra
2. third-person feminine singular imperfect of ra

From Proto-Polynesian *tala (“spine, prong”) – compare with Tahitian tara (“horn, spur, sting”), Tongan tala and Samoan tala.^[1][2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tara

1. spike, point
   1. thorn of a plant
   2. tooth of a comb, tine of a fork
   3. spine of a fish, barb of a stingray
   4. skewer
2. peak of a mountain

tara

1. (of the sun) to shine rays, to irradiate
2. to disturb, to ruffle

• taratara
• whakatara
• whakataratara

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tara”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 451
• “tara” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

tara

1. big, large

   Antonym: sirpi

Borrowed from Sanskrit तर (tara, “intensifier”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophone: tāra
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

tara

1. intensifier

tara

1. manner, style
2. peculiarity
3. excellence, superiority

• Javanese: ꦠꦫ (tara)
• >? Malay: tara
  • Indonesian: tara

• "tara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Part of or extracted from the verb tarati.

tara

1. third-person singular present active of tarati (“to cross over”)

tara m

1. The Pali root tar
   • [c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 36:

     62. Tara taraṇasmiṃ thara santharaṇe
     bhara bharaṇasmiṃ phara sampharaṇe
     sara gati-cintā-hiṃsā-sadde
     phura calanādo hara haraṇamhi

     62. Tar for crossing, thar for spreading, / bhar for supporting, phar for pervasion, / sar for motion, thought, crushing and noise, / phur for shaking, har for taking.]

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

From trzeć.

tara f

1. washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)

   Synonym: tarka

Borrowed from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa).

tara f

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)

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

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

From Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”). Compare Italian tara and French tare, taré (“crazy”).

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)
2. (colloquial) obsession, mania

   Synonyms: mania, obsessão

3. (colloquial) flaw, defect

   Synonym: defeito

4. (slang) sexual fetish or desire

   Synonyms: perversão, fetiche

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tara

1. inflection of tarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tara”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “tara”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “tara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tara”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tara”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tara”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 𐴃𐴝𐴌𐴝 (tara) — Hanifi Rohingya script

tara (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴝𐴌𐴝)

1. star

tara f (plural tarale)

1. alternative form of tară

From Italian tara, possibly through Ottoman Turkish طاره (dara).

tȁra f (Cyrillic spelling та̏ра)

1. tare

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪a.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tara, from Andalusian Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of Arabic طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (empty weight of a container)
2. defect, flaw, vice
3. deficiency

Borrowed from Quechua tara.

tara f (plural taras)

2. (Bolivia, Peru) A plant native to Peru, the spiny holdback, Tara spinosa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tara

1. inflection of tarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English tother.^[1]

tara

1. obsolete form of tra

teu (“not”) + ara (“ever”, Banten dialect)^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ta.ra/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

tara

1. never; rarely

   Synonym: tilok (Banten)

   "Urang mah tara ulin di mal, da di imah waé."

   "I rarely go to the mall, I'm always at home."

Possibly from tayo na or from tana.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈɾa/ [t̪ɐˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

tará (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ) (colloquial)

1. let's go!

   Synonyms: tana, tayo na, (backslang) arat, (slang) taralets

   Tara, alisan na. ― Let's go, it's time to leave.

2. (Bataan) goodbye! (when about to leave)

Borrowed from Spanish tara.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪aː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

tara (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ)

1. tare (empty weight of a container, used to determine the weight of its contents)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾa/ [ˈt̪aː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ta‧ra

tara (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ) (obsolete)

1. wedding gift given to equal the gift given by the other side to the newlyweds (either from the bride's or the groom's side)

• arat

From Proto-Polynesian *tala (“spine, prong”)^[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tara

1. thorn, spike
2. sting of an insect
3. spur
4. horn

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tara” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

tara f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵔⴰ, plural tariwin)

1. alternative spelling of tařa: spring, fountain

tara (definite accusative tarayı, plural taralar)

1. grain

tara

1. second-person singular imperative of taramak

From Proto-Finnic *tarha.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑrɑ/, [ˈtɑrɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɑ
• Hyphenation: ta‧ra

tara

1. vegetable garden

Declension of tara (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tara	tarad
genitive	tara	tarojõ, taroi
partitive	tarra	taroitõ, taroi
illative	tarrasõ, tarra	taroisõ
inessive	taraz	taroiz
elative	tarassõ	taroissõ
allative	taralõ	taroilõ
adessive	tarallõ	taroillõ
ablative	taraltõ	taroiltõ
translative	tarassi	taroissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “tara”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn