amar

• amaru

From Latin amārus. Compare Romanian amar.

amar (feminine amarã)

1. bitter

• amãrãscu
• amãrãciuni
• amãreatsã

Inherited from Latin amāre. First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈmaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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amar (first-person singular present amo, first-person singular preterite amí, past participle amat)

1. (transitive) to love, have great affection for, care about

   Synonym: estimar

• Amar is usually used in poetic contexts. The verb estimar is much more common.

• “amar”, 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
• “amar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “amar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Latin amāre.

amar (ORB, broad)

1. to love

• ami
• amor

• aimer in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• amar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 65: “lui l'ama molto” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “amare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 387

• amâr

From Latin amārus.

amar

1. bitter
2. sour

• (antonym(s) of “bitter”): dolç

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amar, from Latin amāre.

amar (first-person singular present amo, first-person singular preterite amei, past participle amado)

1. to love

• amante
• amor

• “amar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Esperanto ami, from French aimer, Spanish amar, Italian amare, all ultimately from Latin amō (“to love”).

amar (present tense amas, past tense amis, future tense amos, imperative amez, conditional amus)

1. (transitive) to love: to like (very much), care for, have affection for, cherish

   Me amas mea patri. ― I love my parents.

   El amis tua libro. ― She loved your book.

• amorar (“to love passionately”)
• prizar (“to like”)
• afecionar (“to have affection for”)

From Malay amar, from Classical Malay امر (amar), from Arabic أَمْر (ʔamr).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈamar/ [ˈa.mar]
• Rhymes: -amar
• Syllabification: a‧mar

amar (plural amar-amar)

1. order

   Synonyms: perintah, suruhan

2. (chiefly law) dictum
3. (chiefly law) ellipsis of amar putusan (“ruling”)

• “amar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Latin amāre.

amar

1. to love, have great affection for.
2. to like, to be fond of.

From Latin amārus, Italian amaro, Romanian amar. Compare Spanish amargo, Catalan amarg, Esperanto amara.

amar (comparative plus amar, superlative le plus amar)

1. bitter (having an acrid taste)

• acerbe
• acre

• IPA^(key): /aˈmar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: a‧màr

amar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of amare

• arma, marà, rama

Inherited from Proto-Kottic *amar (“hill?, hollow?”), further origin unknown.^[1]

Also compare Assan amar (“hill”),^[2] a Kott dialect.

• IPA^(key): /amar/

amar (plural amaraŋ or amarakŋ)

1. small pit, hollow

• Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 199
• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 33
• Werner, Heinrich K. (2003), Röhrborn, Klaus, Schellbach-Kopra, Ingrid, editors, M. A. Castrén und die Jenissejistik: Die Jennisej-Sprachen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica; 62) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 130

Inherited from Old Spanish amar, Latin amāre.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaɾ/

amar (Hebrew spelling אמאר)

1. to love

Ladino conjugation varies by dialect. The following table is a general overview.

• “amar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Akin to Italian amaro, from Latin amarus.

amar

1. bitter

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mar/
• Rhymes: -amar

From Arabic أَمَرَ (ʔamara). An obsolete word that was revived by purists in the early 20th century on the basis of early Maltese sources.

amar (imperfect jamar)

1. (Australia, elsewhere archaic, literary, puristic) to command; to order; to decree

   Synonym: (usual) ordna

Inherited from Arabic أَمْر (ʔamr).

amar m (plural amajjar)

1. order, command, decree

• Audio (Béarn):

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From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin amārus.

amar m (feminine singular amara, masculine plural amars, feminine plural amaras)

1. acrid

From the Classical norm aimar, from Old Occitan amar, from Latin amāre.

amar

1. (Mistralian) alternative form of aimar

From Latin amārus.

amar (feminine amara, masculine plural amars, feminine plural amaras)

1. bitter

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “amar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Latin amāre (“to love”).

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

amar

1. to love

• Galician: amar
• Portuguese: amar

• Universo Cantigas - "amar"
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “amar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• amor

From Proto-Celtic *amarom (“wailing, crying”); compare Welsh afar (“lamentation”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.β̃əɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈa.β̃aɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈa.β̃əɾ]

amar n

1. wailing, moaning
2. song, singing

   Synonyms: cepóc, cétal, dúan, dúchann, loíd, od

• ⇒ Middle Irish: amrán
  • Irish: amhrán
  • Manx: arrane
  • Scottish Gaelic: òran, amhran

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin amō.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaɾ/

amar

1. to love
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:

     Ma dona m’assai’ e·m prueva, / Quossi de qual guiza l’am [...].

     My lady tries to tempt me to find out how much I love her.

• Occitan: aimar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amar, from Latin amāre.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: a‧mar

amar (first-person singular present amo, first-person singular preterite amei, past participle amado)

1. (transitive) to love, to have great affection for

   Graças a você, agora nos conhecemos, nos casamos e nos amamos.

   Thanks to you, now we met, we married and we love each other.

2. (intransitive) to have the ability to love, to feel love

   Pobre homem, em todos esses oitenta anos nunca amou de verdade.

   Poor man, in all those eighty years, he never really loved.

• detestar, odiar

• amo-te (“I love you”)

• “amar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “amar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin amārus (“bitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃- (“to be hot”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈmar/

• Audio:

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amar m or n (feminine singular amară, masculine plural amari, feminine/neuter plural amare)

1. (of food) bitter, rancid
2. (of a person) bitter, rude

• dulce

• amărăciune
• amăreală
• amărui

• amărî
• amărât
• amărăcios
• amăreață

From Old Irish ommar (“trough for holding water”).

amar m (genitive singular amair, plural amaran)

1. basin, pool, bath
2. tank, cistern, vat
3. channel, trough

• amar-eun
• amar-snàimh

Inherited from Old Spanish amar, from Latin amāre.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaɾ/ [aˈmaɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧mar

amar (first-person singular present amo, first-person singular preterite amé, past participle amado)

1. (somewhat literary) to love, have great affection for, care about

   Synonym: querer

   Te amo. ― I love you.

2. (rare) to wish

• Amar typically refers to romantic love, querer refers to platonic love, and encantar refers to strong affection for an object or activity.

• “amar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• arma, rama

amar

1. romanization of 𒀫 (amar)

From Latin amāre. Compare Italian amare.

amar

1. (transitive) To love
2. (transitive) To like

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.