English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tə(r)

Noun

1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar.
2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.

• An alternate spelling of the name Tatars, an ethnic group in present-day Russia (this term formerly extended to nearly all Central Asian, Turkic, and Mongolian ethnic groups); see Tatar (disambiguation)
• tartar sauce
• calculus (dental), hardened dental plaque
• salts of tartaric acid
  • cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate)
  • tartar emetic (antimony potassium tartrate)
• Tartar (rayon), a rayon in Azerbaijan
• Tartar, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons
• Steak tartare a meat dish made from ground raw beef.
• A name to describe the enemy invaders in Dino Buzzati's existential novel, The Tartar Steppe

See also

• The RIM-24 Tartar missile
• The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System

Common misspellings

• Tatar
• Tatra