2021-02-10
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Tartar & tatar
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Tartar & tatar = TAHR-ter’
BRITISH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS FOR TARTAR
Tartar = noun, adjective
= a variant spelling of Tatar
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
Tartar & tatar
Standard dictionaries differ in their recommendations
for the preferred use of this term.
Both tatar and tartar refer to a member of one of the Mongolian tribes
under Genghis Khan and his descendants
which overran much of Asia and Eastern Europein the thirteenth century.
The term (either spelling) is also applied todescendants of such peoples
who now live in Central Asia.
By extension, both Tatar and tartar mean “an unruly, intractable, or savage person.”
The expression “to catch a tartar”
means “to deal with someone who is troublesome or powerful.”
Recommendation:
use either tartar or tatarin ordinary writing;
use tatar if you are dealingwith ethnic or cultural matters.
