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jar

1  [jahr]
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–noun
1. a broad-mouthed container, usually cylindrical and of glass or earthenware: a cookie jar.
2. the quantity such a container can or does hold.
Origin:
1585–95; < MF jarre < OPr jarra < Ar jarrah earthen water vessel

Related forms:
jarless, adjective
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Word Origin & History

jar  (n.)
"cylindrical vessel," 1421, possibly from M.Fr. jarre "liquid measure" (smaller than a barrel), from Prov. jarra, from Arabic jarrah "earthen water vessel" (whence also Sp. jarra, It. giarra).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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