nart

• Nard

From a North Caucasian source (see Adyghe нарт (nart) and Ossetian нарт (nart)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr ("man, hero").

nart (plural narts)

1. (mythology) Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Vainakhs).

nart

1. Contraction of ne art
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Seconde Nonnes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Teere lakkyth no thyng to thyn vtter Iyen / That thow nart blynd / for thyng that we seen alle / That is a stoon that men may wel espyen.

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• “nart”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnart/
• Rhymes: -art
• Syllabification: nart

nart

1. genitive plural of narta

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نارق (nark).

nart n (plural narturi)

1. (obsolete) maximum value for the tax on products

• nart in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Adyghe нарт (nart).

nart

1. (mythology) Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Vainakhs).
   • Çerkes Nart Öyküleri, KAFDAV

     Nartlar Çerkeslerin ve diğer birçok Kafkas halkının çok eski destan kahramanlarıdır.