different between oar vs Tagalog

English

Etymology

From Old English ?r, from Proto-Germanic *air? (“oar”). Cognate to Old Norse ár.

Pronunciation

• In British & some other non-rhotic accents:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
  • Homophones: aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• In US & some other rhotic accents:
  • (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
  • Homophones: ore, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym: paddle

2. An oarsman; a rower.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Derived terms

• stick one's oar in

Translations

Verb

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

Translations

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, aro, ora

West Frisian

Adjective

oar

1. other
2. different

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• feroarje

Further reading

• “oar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?alok]

Noun

tagalog m

1. Tagalog (language)

Synonyms

• tagalština

Danish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Finnish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Declension

French

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Further reading

• “tagalog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Portuguese

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tagalo