tartar
IPA: tˈɑrtɝ
noun
- A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
- A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
- (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
- A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
- (figurative, dated) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
- (figurative) A rough or violent event.
- One of the tributary rivers of the Kura, flowing through Artsakh and Azerbaijan
- A town in Azerbaijan located on this river
- Alternative spelling of Tatar [An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.]
adjective
- Of or relating to the people or culture of Tartars.
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