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• ze (colloquial)

From Proto-Basque *zer, containing the interrogative prefix *ze-.[1]

• IPA(key): /s̻eɾ/ [s̻er]

• IPA(key): (most dialects) /s̻eɾ/ [s̻er]

• IPA(key): (Biscayan) /s̺eɾ/ [s̺er]

• Rhymes: -eɾ

• Hyphenation: zer

zer (preposed, interrogative)

1. what

• zer arraio (“what the hell”)
• zer berri

zer (interrogative, relative)

1. what

• zer ba

• zer dela eta (“why”)

• zer dugu (“what's going on”)

• zer edo zer (“something”)

• zer esanik ez

• zer eta zer

• zer gerta ere (“just in case”)

• zer modutan

• zer moduz

• zer moduzko

• zer nahi duzu

• zer-nola

• zer-nolako

• zera

• zerbait (“something”)

• zerbait izan

• zerbaitxo

• zerbaixka

• zeregin (“task”)

• zeren

• zeren eta (“because”)

• zerendako

• zerengatik

• zerentzat

• zeresan

• zeresan eman

• zergati

• zergatik (“why”)

• zergatik edo hargatik (“for some reason”)

• zergatiko (“reason”)

• zerikusi

• zerizan

• zerki

• zernahi

• zernahi gerta ere

• zernahi gisaz

• zernahi izanik

• zernahi kostarik (“whatever it takes”)

• zernahitarako

• zertako

• zertan (“in what situation”)

• zertarako (“for what”)

• zertaratu

• zertasun (“essence”)

• zertsu (“more or less what”)

• zertu

• zertxobait (“something”)

• zertzuk

• Basque-Icelandic Pidgin: ser

zer (not comparable)

1. what a, such
   A, zer egun ederra! ― Ah, what a beautiful day.

zer inan

1. thing, being, entity

2. ^ R. L. Trask (2008), “ze-”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 370

• “zer”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “zer”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Latin īre. The present and subjunctive forms are based on Latin vādere.

• IPA(key): /d͡zer/

zer (second-person plural imperative zaite)

1. go

• vis
• andur
• زەر (zer) — Arabic spelling

From Proto-Iranian *járHitah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰárHiš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.

• IPA(key): /zɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ

zer

1. yellow

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• IPA(key): /ˈzɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: zer

zer n

1. genitive plural of zero

• zăr — regional, archaic

Either a substrate word related to zară (“buttermilk”), or from Latin serum, possibly influenced by Greek ζέμα (zéma). Compare Aromanian dzãr / dzer.

• IPA(key): /zer/

zer n (plural zeruri)

1. whey

• zară
• “zer”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

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zer (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. gold

• “zer” in Enedilim.com
• “zer” in Webonary.org