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Questions about atar

What does atar mean?

atar means "essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers".

How many syllables are in atar?

atar has 2 syllables and divides as a-tar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for atar?

Close synonyms include attar, athar, ottar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atar a common word?

atar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.