Name

Name WAR

Between 1980 and 2022 there were 13 births of War in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name War per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

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En Français

Prénom War
In Italiano

Nome War

Information about the first name War

The first name War has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name War is the most common is:

Belgium

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 3 letters including 1 vowel and 2 consonants

War in Japanese ^*

Romaji	waa
Katakana	ワー
Hiragana	わー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Origin and meaning of name War

English

Etymology

Capitalization of war.

Alternative forms

warre (obsolete)
warr (obsolete)

Anagrams

RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw

Anagrams

RAW, RWA, Rwa, WRA, raw

Noun

WAR (uncountable)
(computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
(sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔː/
(General American) IPA(key): /wɔɹ/
Homophones: wore, wor (some dialects)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
(obsolete or Philippine) IPA(key): /wɑɹ/

Proper noun

WAR
Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file)
(military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.

Verb

war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)
(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
1611, King James Bible, Book of Numbers, 31:7:
And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Noun (Antonyms)

peace

Noun (See also)

battle

Proper noun (See also)

(personification of war): Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Proper noun (Synonyms)

(personification of war): the red rider, the Red Rider

Proper noun (Usage notes)

The War frequently refers to World War II in informal contexts in Britain, and less commonly so in the United States and Canada.

Verb (Synonyms)

go to war, wage war, fight

General

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.

Proper noun

War
The personification of war, often depicted in armor and riding a red horse.
A city in West Virginia, United States.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish war, from Proto-Slavic *varъ.

Etymology (Noun)

war m inan
(obsolete) boiling water or other liquid
(obsolete) extreme heat

Etymology (Noun)

war m inan
var, volt-ampere reactive (unit of electrical power)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /var/
Rhymes: -ar
Syllabification: war

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch werre, warre (“confusion, disarray, conflict”), from Old Dutch *werra, from Proto-West Germanic *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

Etymology

First attested as werum in 1433. Borrowed from West Frisian It War, derived in turn from Old Frisian were (“plot of land, landed property”), later reinterpreted to West Frisian war (“low-lying grassland”).

Noun

war f (plural warren, diminutive warretje n)
confusion, disarray
tangle, mess
an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed

Pronunciation