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English

Noun

segar (plural segars)

1. Obsolete form of cigar.

Anagrams

• Agers, GRASE, Regas, SEGRA, agers, gaser, gears, rages, regas, sager, sarge

Asturian

Verb

segar

1. to reap

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan segar, from Latin sec?re, present active infinitive of sec?.

Verb

segar (first-person singular present sego, past participle segat)

1. to harvest

Conjugation

Derived terms

• sega
• segabosses
• segada
• segador

Further reading

• “segar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese segar (“to cut, to reap”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sec?, sec?re (“I cut, cut off”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se??a?/

Verb

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap, harvest

Conjugation

Related terms

• sega
• segador

Further reading

• “segar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “segar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “segar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “segar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “segar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “segar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Adjective

segar (plural segar-segar)

1. healthy
2. fresh

Malay

Adjective

segar (Jawi spelling ????, plural segar-segar)

1. healthy

Derived terms

• kesegaran
• menyegarkan

See also

• sihat

Further reading

• “segar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan segar, from Latin sec?re, present active infinitive of sec?.

Verb

segar

1. to harvest

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese segar (“to cut, to reap”), from Latin sec?, sec?re (“I cut, cut off”) from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.??a?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.??a(?)/
• Homophone: cegar
• Hyphenation: se?gar

Verb

segar (first-person singular present indicative sego, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap (to cut with a scythe)

   Synonyms: ceifar, gadanhar

Conjugation

Further reading

• “segar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish segar, from Latin sec?re, present active infinitive of sec?.

Verb

segar (first-person singular present siego, first-person singular preterite segué, past participle segado)

1. to harvest
2. to mow
3. to reap

Conjugation

Related terms

• segable
• segadera
• segadero
• segador
• segadora
• siega

Further reading

• “segar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

segar

1. present tense of sega.

Anagrams

• gaser, segra

Venetian

Alternative forms

• siegar

Etymology

From Latin sec?re (compare Italian segare), present active infinitive of sec?.

Verb

segar

1. (transitive) to saw

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Derived terms

• sega, siega

English

Alternative forms

• sere
• sare

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /si??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English s?ar, s?ere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h?sews-). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian sa?sas (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek ???? (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.

Adjective

sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)

1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English s?arian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sau??n (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijan? (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German s?r?n (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).

Verb

sear (third-person singular simple present sears, present participle searing, simple past and past participle seared)

1. (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
2. To wither; to dry up.

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3. (transitive, figuratively) To make callous or insensible.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.

   The events of that day were seared into her memory.

Translations

Noun

sear (plural sears)

1. A scar produced by searing
2. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

Translations

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sera

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Adjective

sear

1. eastern, east

Synonyms

• an ear

Antonyms

• siar

West Frisian

Adjective

sear

1. painful

Inflection

Further reading

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