Given name & surname · also Czech

Kosar

“scythe”

Kosar is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Hungarian.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Kosar goes back to Proto-Slavic *kosa, meaning “scythe.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Kosar comes from Czech, and ultimately from Hungarian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Czech Kosař, from Slovene Kosar, from Serbo-Croatian Kosar, from Proto-Slavic *kosa (“scythe”), from Czech Košář, from Slovak Košár, from Slovene Košar.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kosar’s family of names

In English usage, Kosar as a surname was borrowed from the Slovenian form Košar.

Walk Kosar’s family in the name graph

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Hungarian

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Hungarian

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Polish

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Czech

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