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Type Country
Scripts قطر(Arabic, Persian, Urdu) क़तर(Hindi) Қатар(Tajik, Uzbek Cyrillic) قاتار(Uyghur Arabic)
Pronounced Pron. KA-tar(Arabic) kah-TAR(Dutch) KA-tahr(English) KAH-tahr(English, Finnish) KAH-tər(English) kə-TAHR(English) KA-TAR(French) KU-tər(Hindi) ga-TAR(Persian)  [key·IPA]
Other Forms FormsGhatar (Persian)

Meaning & History

From Catharrei, the name given to the inhabitants of region by Roman writer Pliny the Elder, which may have been based on the name of a local settlement. The name Catara was later used by Greek astronomer Ptolemy to refer to the peninsula, which was eventually transmitted into Arabic. This is the name of a country in Western Asia.
Added 4/28/2020 by anonymous
Edited 10/3/2020 by HL


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