different between setar vs sear

English

Etymology

From Persian ??????? (se-târ).

Noun

setar (plural setars)

1. a Persian musical instrument

See also

• sitar

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

setar m

1. indefinite plural of sete

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