pancar

Inherited from Malay pancar. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpant͡ʃar/ [ˈpaɲ.t͡ʃar]
• Rhymes: -ant͡ʃar
• Syllabification: pan‧car

pancar (plural pancar-pancar)

1. descendant, person of a certain descent

   Synonym: keturunan

2. transmit, relay

• pencer, pençer, perpencer

From Ottoman Turkish پانجار (pancar), from Armenian բանջար (banǰar, “edible greens, vegetable”) (in dialects also փանջար (pʻanǰar), փա̈նջա̈ր (pʻänǰär), պա̈նջա̈ր (pänǰär) etc.), from Old Armenian բանջար (banǰar, “edible greens, vegetable”).

• IPA^(key): [pɑnˈdʒɑɾ]

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• Hyphenation: pan‧car

pancar

1. beet, a cultivated, flowering plant of the species Beta vulgaris

   Synonym: çükündür

2. beetroot, the swollen root of this plant, used as a culinary vegetable

   Synonym: çükündür

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