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by jihadjihad 623 days ago
Doesn't seem related--looks like šar is Semitic in origin [0] while tsar comes to the language by way of Caesar [1].

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%A1arrum#Akkadian

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tsar#Etymology