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Avar|ˈɑːvɑː(r), ˈeɪvɑː(r)|
1. A member of a Turkic people, prominent in south-eastern Europe from the 6th to the 9th c. a.d.; also, their language. Also attrib.
2. |ˈævɑː(r)|. Also Awar. A member of a people of the North Caucasus; also, their language.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. IV. xlii. 229 He imparted to the senate his resolution..to purchase the friendship of the Avars. Ibid., But the virtue or treachery of an Avar betrayed the secret enmity and ambitious designs of their countrymen. 1881Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. XIII. 293 My ride took me through the Avâr-speaking country. Ibid., It is written by the one in Avâr, by the other in Russian. 1882Freeman Lect. Amer. Audiences 339 The Empire which had beaten back the Persian and the Avar lost its provinces to the Saracen and the Bulgarian. 1920H. G. Wells Outline of Hist. vi. xxxi. §1 The Avars and Slavs struck down from the Danube country towards the Adriatic. 1934A. Toynbee Study Hist. III. 25 The transitory Avar ascendency was the making of the Slavs. 1951W. K. Matthews Languages of U.S.S.R. v. 89 Awar has..fifty phonemes, only five of which are vowels.
Hence Avarian |əˈvɑːrɪən| a., of or pertaining to the Avars (both senses); also absol., the language of the Avars.
1875C. Heneage tr. M. von Thielman's Journey in Caucasus II. 286/2 Avarian guides. 1889Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. XXI. 729 Til meant ‘black’ in Avarian. Ibid. 731 The importance of the Avarian domination..has hardly been sufficiently appreciated. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 341/2 The Avarian is a sort of inter-tribal tongue. 1909Webster s.v., Avarian rings, vestiges of Avarian fortifications formed by stakes surrounding a settlement. |