jantar

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjantar]

jantar m inan

1. amber

• “jantar”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “jantar”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “jantar”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

jantar m (plural jantares, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xantar

• “jantar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

• iãtar, iantar, jãtar, yantar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *iantāre, from ientō, from ieientō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-. Cognate with Old Spanish yantar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. lunch; dinner (midday meal)
2. a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative
   • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

     dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

     you'll give this monastery's abbess a "dinner" each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this "dinner" a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

jantar

1. (intransitive) to lunch; to dine

• Galician: xantar, xentar
• Portuguese: jantar, jentar, jintar (see there for further descendants)

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “jantar¹ v. intr.”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “jantar² s. m.”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “jantar”, 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), “jantar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Derived from Lithuanian gintàras,^[1] possibly via Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan.tar/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -antar
• Syllabification: jan‧tar
• Homophone: Jantar

jantar m inan (related adjective jantarowy)

1. (literary) amber (fossil resin)

   Synonym: bursztyn

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

jentar, jintar

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, jentar (“lunch, to have lunch”), from Vulgar Latin *iantāre (“to eat lunch”), from Latin ientāre (“to breakfast”). See iēntāculum (“the first meal of the day”).

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ, (Brazil) -a
• Hyphenation: jan‧tar

jantar m (plural jantares)

1. dinner (evening meal)

   Synonym: (informal) janta

2. (obsolete) lunch; dinner (midday meal)

jantar (first-person singular present janto, first-person singular preterite jantei, past participle jantado)

1. to dine

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jantar.

• Kabuverdianu: djantâ, jantâ
• Macanese: jantâ
• → Língua Geral Amazônica: îandara
  • Nheengatu: yandara

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ), originally from Lithuanian.

• IPA^(key): /jântaːr/

jȁntār m inan (Cyrillic spelling ја̏нта̄р)

1. amber

• “jantar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Russian янта́рь (jantárʹ).

• IPA^(key): /jàːntar/, /jáːntar/

jāntar m inan

1. amber

• “jantar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “jantar”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references