yar
Speech parts
1. yar - Adjective
2. yar - Verb
3. Yar - Proper noun
Meaning
(intransitive) To snarl; to gnar.
(intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.
yar (comparative more yar, superlative most yar)
(UK dialectal) Sour; brackish.
yar (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)
(nautical, of a vessel, especially sailboat) Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
Yar
Two rivers on the Isle of Wight, England, the Eastern Yar which reaches the sea at Bembridge, and the Western Yar at Yarmouth on the Solent. Both rivers are called the River Yar on Ordnance Survey Maps.
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Examples
Enenche said: “Furthermore, troops successfully rescued two kidnapped victims following credible intelligence about a kidnap incident at Yar Galadima and Mashanyin Zaki villages in Dansadau by bandits on motorcycles on June 27.
Ahsan Abdi, who hails from Rahim Yar Khan district, filed a petition requesting to be included as a necessary party in the case.
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China provided large-scale assistance to the YAR.
By 1859, seven villages existed where modern Kemerovo is now: Shcheglovka (or Ust-Iskitimskoye), Kemerovo (named in 1734), Yevseyevo, Krasny Yar, Kur-Iskitim (Pleshki), Davydovo (Ishanovo), and Borovaya.
In fact Badakhshan was now contested by again by Mir Yar Beg, Sikandar Shah, Shahzada Mahmud, Abdul Ghazi Khan and Shah Suliman Beg who were in exile at Tashkurghan under protection of Mir Wali.
Historians have that Ukrainian collaborators guarded the Babi Yar ravine and facilitated the Nazis in rounding up Jews, and this was borne out by testimonies at the war crimes trials.