tartar

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A red compound deposited during wine making, mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate; wine stone — a source of cream of tartar.
2. (countable, uncountable)A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
3. (dated)A fearsome or angrily violent person.

   “Mrs. Begg said she liked Mrs. Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.”

4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Tatar.
5. A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.

   “Persia is a great country, which was in old times very illustrious and powerful; but now the Tartars have wasted and destroyed it.”

6. (dated, figuratively)A person of a keen, irritable temper.
7. (figuratively)A rough or violent event.

   “I haven't escaped sickness all my life to get off easily now. […] I knew when my turn came, it would be a Tartar.”

adj

1. Of or relating to the people or culture of Tartars.

   “Template:uxx”

name

1. One of the tributary rivers of the Kura, flowing through Artsakh and Azerbaijan.
2. A town in Azerbaijan located on this river.