"Cher" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ʃɛɹ/ [General-American], /ʃɛə/ [Received-Pronunciation]
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Cher
  1. A department of Centre-Val de Loire, France. Capital: Bourges. Categories (place): Departments of France, Places in Centre-Val de Loire, Places in France Translations (department of France): Cher (French), Char (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-Cher-en-name-WT82c7Hm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 0 27 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 54 0 46 Disambiguation of 'department of France': 80 20
  2. A river in France. Categories (place): Places in France, Rivers in France Translations (river in France): Cher (French), Char (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-Cher-en-name-nPKw17S~ Disambiguation of 'river in France': 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name [English]

IPA: /ʃɛɹ/ [General-American], /ʃɛə/ [Received-Pronunciation]
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Cher
  1. A short form of the female given name Cherilyn. It is popularized as a given name by the singer Cher Categories (topical): English diminutives of female given names
    Sense id: en-Cher-en-name-TeNRp2OO Disambiguation of English diminutives of female given names: 29 1 70 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 54 0 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Proper name [French]

IPA: /ʃɛʁ/ Audio: Fr-Paris--Cher.ogg [Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Athée-sur-Cher.wav
Etymology: Named after the Cher River, from the pre-Indo-European substrate hydronym *kʰar- (“stone”) (compare Ancient Greek κάρκαρος (kárkaros, “rough, jagged”)). Etymology templates: {{der|fr|qfa-sub|-}} substrate, {{m|ine-pro|*kʰar-|t=stone}} *kʰar- (“stone”), {{cog|grc|κάρκαρος|t=rough, jagged}} Ancient Greek κάρκαρος (kárkaros, “rough, jagged”) Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Cher m
  1. Cher (a department of Centre-Val de Loire, France) Tags: masculine Categories (place): Departments of France, Places in Centre-Val de Loire, Places in France Derived forms: Loir-et-Cher
    Sense id: en-Cher-fr-name-ipZBw9Dw Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 74 26
  2. Cher (a left tributary of the Loire, in central France) Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in France, Rivers in France
    Sense id: en-Cher-fr-name-TAcG-CU~

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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.