Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian ugar (“fallow land”) and Macedonian угар (ugar, “fallow land”). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ugorъ (“fallow ground”).^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /uˈɡaɾ/

ugár m (plural ugarë, definite ugari, definite plural ugarët)

1. fallow land
2. first instance of tilling

• qersë, rregë, djerrinë

From a Slavic language. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ugar, Czech úhor. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ugorъ. First attested in 1299.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɡɒr]
• Rhymes: -ɒr
• Hyphenation: ugar
• Syllabification: u‧gar

ugar (plural ugarok)

1. (agriculture) fallow land (a piece of land that has been used for crop production for a long time and is left uncultivated for a certain period of time, usually for a year, in order to rest and increase productivity)
2. (figurative, poetic) wasteland, fallow (as a symbol of social, political, cultural, etc. stagnation, backwardness, and untapped potential)

• parlag

• ugar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ugorъ.

• IPA^(key): /ǔːɡar/

úgar m inan (Cyrillic spelling у́гар)

1. fallow land

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

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