Tartar Definition
tärtər
tartars
noun
tartars
Cream of tartar, esp. the crude form present in grape juice and forming a reddish or whitish, crustlike deposit (argol) in wine casks.
Webster's New World
A hard deposit on the teeth, consisting of saliva proteins, food deposits, various salts, as calcium phosphate, etc.; dental calculus.
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Webster's New World
An irritable, violent, intractable person.
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Alternative spelling of Tatar.
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adjective
Webster's New World
pronoun
One of the tributaries of the Kura River, mostly flowing through the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
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Noun
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tartar
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tartarsOrigin of Tartar
Middle English tartre potassium bitartrate from Old French from Medieval Latin tartarum argol from Medieval Greek tartaron
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Via Middle English, via Medieval Latin from Medieval Greek τάρταρον (tartaron), probably from Arabic[Arabic?].
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From Armenian Թարթառ (Tʿartʿaṙ).
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