altar

Etymology
From, from , taken from , probably related to ; thus "burning place", influenced by. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
 * 2)  A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
 * 3)  Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
 * 1)  Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ilter,
 * Amharic: መሠውያ
 * Arabic: مَذْبَح, هَيْكَل, مِحْرَاب
 * Aramaic: מדבחא
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani:, qurbangah, səcdəgah
 * Basque: aldare
 * Belarusian: алта́р
 * Bengali: ,
 * Biatah Bidayuh: panggoo bisadis
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 聖壇
 * Chuukese: antare
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: altur
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: vɔsamlekpui
 * Faroese: altar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საკურთხეველი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: βωμός, θυσιαστήριον
 * Gujarati: યજ્ઞવેદી
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: altóir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: мандл
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kazakh: мехраб, алтарь
 * Khmer: បុចនីយដ្ឋាន, អាសន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , sexan
 * Kyrgyz: алтарь
 * Lao: ຫີ້ງບູຊາ, ຮ້ານບູຊາ
 * Latin:, altare
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: aukuras,
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: олтар, жртвеник
 * Malay: mazbah, mezbah
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: artal
 * Maori: āta, tūāhu
 * Marathi: वेदी
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: тахилын ширээ
 * Nepali: वेदी
 * Norman: autel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: wēofod
 * Old Norse: altari, stalli
 * Old Saxon: altari
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬੇਦੀ, ਪੀਠ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: altair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жртвеник, олтар
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: පූජාසනය
 * Slovak: oltár
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: altari
 * Swahili:, madhabahu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: меҳроб, мазбаҳ
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: แท่นบูชา
 * Tibetan: མཆོད་ཤོམས, མཆོད་སྟེགས
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎄𐎁𐎈
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: قربان گاہ
 * Uzbek:, altar
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: allor
 * West Frisian: alter

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) altar

Etymology
From, , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  altar

Noun

 * 1) altar

Etymology
From, from , from , cognate with 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From (13th century, ), from.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Usage notes
In pre-Classical and Classical Latin, this noun only occurs in the plural as a plurale tantum.

Descendants
See.

Etymology 1
From late, from , itself taken from.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology
From. Cf. also.

Noun

 * 1)  flat structure used for religious rites
 * Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.
 * This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.
 * This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

Etymology
From, whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) age

Etymology
From, from. Cf. also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  flat structure used for religious rites

Etymology
or, with the plural deriving from. Compare, a rare and dated variant which derives from the same source via a Slavic intermediary.

Noun

 * 1) communion table
 * 2) chancel
 * 3) shrine, sanctuary
 * 1) chancel
 * 2) shrine, sanctuary

Etymology
(attested as far back as the ), from. See also.

Noun

 * 1) stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces
 * 1) stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces

Etymology
, from. .