mortar

• morter (archaic)

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
2. (countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
3. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
4. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

• mortarboard

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

   The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

• bricks and mortar

• gun
• howitzer

• marrot

Derived from morto +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /mɔrˈtar/

mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)

1. (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
2. (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
3. (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔr.tar]
• Hyphenation: mor‧tar

mortar (first-person possessive mortarku, second-person possessive mortarmu, third-person possessive mortarnya)

1. mortar,
   1. a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
   2. a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

      Synonym: lumpang

• “mortar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

mortar

1. Alternative form of morter

mortar m

1. indefinite plural of mort

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).

• IPA^(key): /morˈtar/

mortar n (uncountable)

1. mortar (construction material)

• mortier
• mojar

• mortar in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)