atar

atar (plural atars)

1. Alternative spelling of attar.

• ta-ra, taar, Tārā, Arta, ATRA, Tara, tara, A.A.R.T., rata

From Latin aptāre.

atar (first-person singular indicative present ato, past participle atáu)

1. to attach, tie, tie up

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin aptāre.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtaɾ/ [aˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite atei, past participle atado)

1. to tie, bind, fasten

   Synonyms: amarrar, lear

   Antonym: desatar

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

2. to repair a fishing net

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “atar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “atar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “atar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “atar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “atar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “atar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

atar (plural atar-atar)

1. perfume

Borrowed from English attar, from Persian عطر ('ater, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume, scent; essence, attar”).

atar m (genitive singular atair)

1. attar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

atar

1. present indicative/present subjunctive/imperative autonomous of at

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “atar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Spanish, from Latin aptāre.

atar (Hebrew spelling אטאר)

1. to bind, to connect, to attach
2. to close a deal
3. to rely on, to trust in

atar

1. inflection of atart:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of atart
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of atart

Inherited from Arabic أَثَر (ʔaṯar).

• IPA^(key): (singular) /ˈa.tar/, (plural) /aˈtaːr/
• Rhymes: -atar, -aːr

atar m (plural atar)

1. trace
2. footstep

atar m pl (singulative eterin)

1. bird

• Middle Welsh: adar
  • Welsh: adar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin aptāre. Doublet of aptar, a later borrowing.

• Hyphenation: a‧tar

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite atei, past participle atado)

1. to tie, tie up

• atilho
• atadura
• desatar
• reatar

• apto

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

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /atar/

atar m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵜⴰⵔ)

1. wild pigeon

   Synonym: limama

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[2], Paris, France: HAL

• hȁtār

Borrowed from Hungarian határ.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /âtaːr/
• Hyphenation: a‧tar

ȁtār m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̏та̄р)

1. region, district, area, land
2. (transitive) area within one's jurisdiction

• “atar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish atar, from Latin aptāre. Doublet of aptar, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtaɾ/ [aˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tar

atar (first-person singular present ato, first-person singular preterite até, past participle atado)

1. (transitive) to tie, tie up, tie down, to tether (secure (something) by rope or the like)

   Synonyms: amarrar, ligar

   Antonym: desatar

2. (transitive) to constrain, limit (prevent or remove movement, leave (someone or something) without freedom of movement or ability to act)

   Synonyms: constreñir, restringir, limitar

• “atar”, 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

atar

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of atmak