zavar

Probably a derivation from an otherwise unattested stem of unknown origin with the noun and verb-forming suffix -r. For the parallel noun-verb derivation, compare csavar, fodor.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɒvɒr]

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• Hyphenation: za‧var
• Rhymes: -ɒr

zavar (plural zavarok)

1. confusion, disorder, muddle, chaos

   Synonyms: zűrzavar, kavarodás, káosz, kuszaság, összevisszaság, rendetlenség

2. malfunction, disturbance, hitch, fault

   Synonyms: hiba, meghibásodás, rendellenesség, fennakadás

3. (medicine) dysfunction, disorder, trouble, problem, dys- (as in dyspepsia), in- (as in indigestion), mal- (as in malabsorption)
4. (psychology, with the verbs ejt, esik, hoz, jön, van) embarrassment, being ill at ease, self-consciousness, discomfiture

   zavarban van ― to be embarrassed

5. (telecommunications) interference

zavar

1. (transitive) to bother, trouble, molest

   Synonyms: zaklat, nyaggat, háborgat

2. (transitive) to disturb (to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow)

   Synonym: idegesít

3. (transitive) to chase, to drive

   Synonym: kerget

Sometimes the subject of the verb is not one that does any action but the stimulus prompting sensory or emotional feeling (not deliberately), as in the case of people or things that interest someone, matter to someone, please someone or appeal to someone (or another entity), sometimes differently from the perspective in English. In these cases, the experiencer (the entity that receives sensory or emotional input) can take the accusative (e.g. interest) or the dative (e.g. appeal). The experiencer is expressed with the dative in the case of hiányzik (“to be missing or missed by someone”), ízlik (“to taste good, to be pleasing [as of food]”), kell (“to be needed, necessary, or required”), tetszik (“to be appealing”), and van/megvan (“to be had, to be owned by someone”).

If the experiencer is expressed with the accusative, the object may be the third person (him, her, it, or them), which is considered definite in Hungarian, or it may be a first- or second-person object (me, us, and you), considered as indefinite. For example, with the verb érdekel, it takes the definite form érdekli őt “he/she is interested” (literally, “it interests him/her”), and the indefinite form érdekel engem/téged/minket for “I am, you are, we are interested” (literally, “it interests me, you, us”) in present-tense singular. The form érdekellek means “you are interested in me” (literally, “I interest you”). – Verbs with a similar syntactic behavior include zavar (“to be bothered by”) and izgat (“to be upset or intrigued by”).[2]

(With verbal prefixes):

• (to bother, disturb): zavar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (confusion): zavar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [zɑˈvɑɾ]
• Hyphenation: za‧var

Borrowed from Armenian ձավար (javar).

zavar (definite accusative zavarı, plural zavarlar)

1. (dialectal) coarsely ground bulgur
2. (dialectal) ground grain for animal feeding
3. (dialectal) bunkum

• zaval, zavır, zevar, zavara

• → Armenian: զավառ (zavaṙ) (Sivas)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ձաւար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 148
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 93–94
• “zavar”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Compare Turkish zağar.

zavar (definite accusative zavarı, plural zavarlar)

1. greyhound

• “zavar”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982