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scar
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: skär, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English s?eard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.
Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
- Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
Synonyms
- cicatrice, cicatrix
Related terms
- fire scar
- scar tissue
Translations
Verb
scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)
- (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
- (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Derived terms
- battle-scarred
Translations
See also
- birthmark
Etymology 2
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Anagrams
- CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., cars, csar, sacr-, sarc-
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska??/
Verb
scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)
- (transitive) sever
- (transitive) separate
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- (transitive) tear asunder
Conjugation
- Alternative verbal noun: scarúint (Munster)
Derived terms
- soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “scaraim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
- "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ·scart
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skar/
Verb
·scar
- third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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bone
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: b?n, IPA(key): /?bo?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /b??n/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /b??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Middle English bon, from Old English b?n (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bain? (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyh?- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfin?s (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan ????????????????????????? (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
Alternative forms
- bane, byen (dialectal)
Noun
bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish
- 2019: "Tres Bocas" by Scott Sadil, California Fly Fisher
- The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.
- 2019: "Tres Bocas" by Scott Sadil, California Fly Fisher
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- (figuratively) The framework of anything.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- (US, informal) A dollar.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
Synonyms
- os (rare)
- (rigid parts of a corset): rib, stay
Translations
See bone/translations § Noun.
Adjective
bone (not comparable)
- Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ash to this entry?)
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
Synonyms
- (remove the bone from): debone, unbone
- (vulgar, have sexual intercourse with): bury the bone, bonk (British), fuck, screw, shag (British); see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Bones
Further reading
- Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton
Etymology 2
Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Etymology 4
Clipping of trombone
Noun
bone (plural bones)
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
Anagrams
- Beno, Boen, ebon
Afrikaans
Noun
bone
- plural of boon
Danish
Etymology 1
From Low German and Middle Low German b?nen, from Old Saxon *b?nian, from Proto-West Germanic *b?nijan (“to polish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?o?n?]
Verb
bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)
- to polish
Etymology 2
Derived from the noun bon (“receipt”), from French bon (“voucher, ticket”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b????]
Verb
bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)
- to enter (in the cash register)
- to charge
Esperanto
Etymology
From bona (“good”) +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bo.ne/
- Hyphenation: bon?e
- Rhymes: -one
Adverb
bone
- well, OK
Hadza
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bone/
Etymology
Borrowed from Sukuma ??ne (“four (class XIV)”).
Alternative forms
- bune
Adjective
bone m (masc. plural bunibii, fem. boneko, fem. plural bonebee)
- four
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto bone (“well”), bona (“good”) +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bone/
Adverb
bone
- well
- 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
- To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.
- This would have served well as a proof of our prosperity if it were evenly distributed. (Original English, page 29)
- To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.
- 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
Related terms
- bona
Italian
Adjective
bone
- feminine plural of bono
Latin
Adjective
bone
- vocative masculine singular of bonus
References
- bone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- bone in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Lindu
Noun
bone
- sand
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *b?na, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.
Noun
bône f
- bean
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: boon
- Afrikaans: boon
- ? Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
- ? Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- ? Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- ? Papiamentu: bonchi (from the diminutive)
- ? Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
- Afrikaans: boon
- Limburgish: boean
Further reading
- “bone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bone”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English b?n.
Noun
bone (plural bones)
- Alternative form of bon
Etymology 2
From Old Norse bón.
Noun
bone
- Alternative form of boon
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).
Adjective
bone
- Alternative form of boon
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?pone/
Verb
bone
- inflection of botnit:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
- imperative connegative
Old French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bu.n?/
Adjective
bone
- nominative feminine singular of bon
- oblique feminine singular of bon
Venetian
Adjective
bone
- feminine plural of bon
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