knar

[nahr]

noun

1. a knot on a tree or in wood.

knar

/ nɑː /

noun

1. a variant of knur

Other Word Forms

• knarred adjective
• knarry adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of knar¹

1200–50; Middle English knarre; cognate with Dutch knar, Low German knarre

Word History and Origins

Origin of knar¹

C14 knarre rough stone, knot on a tree; related to Low German knarre

Example Sentences

Although displaced, Misha and Knar resisted the obliterating effects of assimilation.

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Back home, his father, Misha, had been a singer, and his mother, Knar, an actress.

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Bouncing around Paris’s quartier latin, Misha became Michael, the owner of a Georgian restaurant, and Knar, a seamstress.

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His parents, Mischa and Knar Aznavourian, were living in Paris at the time of their son’s birth, in a poor part of the Latin quarter, where his father worked as a cook and his mother as a seamstress.

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Jordan Giles and Robert Knar added nine points each.

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