different between scar vs crave

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)

1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
2. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
3. 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.

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)

1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
3. (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)

1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
3. 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)

1. 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)

1. (transitive) sever
2. (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

3. (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

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid

English

Etymology

From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-Germanic *krafjan? (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?v, IPA^(key): /k?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Verb

crave (third-person singular simple present craves, present participle craving, simple past and past participle craved)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

2. (transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

Derived terms

• craving
• cravingly
• cravingness

Translations

Noun

crave (plural craves)

1. (law, Scotland) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, s. v. “*krab?n-” and “*kr?bi-”.

Anagrams

• Caver, carve, caver, varec

Portuguese

Verb

crave

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cravar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of cravar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cravar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cravar

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• crae, giae, jave
• crai (campidanese)

Etymology

From earlier *clave, from Latin cl?vis, cl?vem, from Proto-Italic *kl?wis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cra?e/

Noun

crave f (plural craves)

1. key