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English

Etymology

From SONAR, acronym from sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.

Pronunciation

Noun

sonar (plural sonars)

1. (nautical) echolocation
2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

Synonyms

• SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

Derived terms

• Doppler sonar

Translations

See also

• radar
• lidar
• sodar

Anagrams

• Ras?n, arson, orans, roans, saron, sorna

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sono, past participle sonat)

1. to sound, to make a sound
2. to ring, to buzz

Conjugation

Related terms

• resonar
• so

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (uncountable)

1. sonar

Further reading

• “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sonar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar
• Rhymes: -o?n?r

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Derived terms

• grondsonar
• sonarapparaat
• sonarapparatuur
• sonarhut
• sonarsignaal
• sonarsysteem
• sonarvis

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Icelandic

Noun

sonar

1. indefinite genitive singular of sonur

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto soni (“to sound”), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin son? (“to make a noise”).

Verb

sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

1. to ring

Conjugation

Occitan

Pronunciation

Verb

sonar

1. to call (to name or refer to)

   Synonyms: cridar, apelar

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

Romanian

Etymology

From French sonar

Noun

sonar n (plural sonare)

1. sonar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?na?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar

Noun

sòn?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. sonar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?na?/, [so?na?]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

1. to sound, to ring
2. to sound (appear)

3. (figuratively) to ring a bell, to be familiar

4. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

Alternative forms

• sónar

Further reading

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

Swedish

Verb

sonar

1. present tense of sona.

Anagrams

• Arons, nosar, sorna

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?. Compare Italian suonare.

Verb

sonar

1. (transitive) to play, sound

Conjugation

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pn, from Proto-Germanic *w?pn? (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *w?bnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Swedish vapen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?.p?n/
• Rhymes: -?p?n
• Hyphenation: weap?on

Noun

weapon (plural weapons)

1. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
2. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
3. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.

   Choose your weapon.

4. (Scotland, Britain, slang, derogatory) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weapon

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)

1. (transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
   • 1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68 (page 425)

     […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]

See also

weapon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia