mirage

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowing from French mirage

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈrɑːʒ/, X-SAMPA: /mI"rA:Z/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʒ

Noun

mirage (plural mirages)

1. An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance.
2. (figuratively) An illusion.

Translations

an optical phenomenon

• Arabic: سراب (ar) (sarāb) m
• Catalan: miratge (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎪᏩᏛᏗ (chr) (agowadvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海市蜃樓 (cmn), 海市蜃楼 (cmn) (hǎishìshènlóu), 蜃景 (cmn) (shènjǐng), 幻景 (cmn) (huànjǐng)

• Finnish: kangastus (fi)
• French: mirage (fr) m
• German: Luftspiegelung (de) f, Fata Morgana (de) f
• Greek: αντικατοπτρισμός (el) (antikatoptrismós) m, οφθαλμαπάτη (el) (ofthalmapáti) f
• Hebrew: מיראז' (he) m, חזיון תעתועים (he) m
• Hungarian: délibáb (hu)
• Icelandic: hilling (is) f
• Italian: miraggio (it) m

• Japanese: 蜃気楼 (ja) (しんきろう, shinkirō)
• Korean: 신기루 (ko) (singiru) (蜃氣樓 (ko))
• Malay: fatamorgana (ms)
• Navajo: hadahooneeyą́
• Norwegian: luftspeiling (no) m
• Persian: سراب (fa) (sarâb)
• Portuguese: miragem (pt) f
• Russian: мираж (ru) (miráž) m
• Spanish: espejismo (es) m
• Swedish: hägring (sv) c
• Telugu: ఎండమావి (te)
• Turkish: serap (tr)
• Vietnamese: ảo ảnh (vi)
• Volapük: magälod (vo)

See also

• Mirage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fata morgana
• illusion
• optical illusion

Verb

mirage (third-person singular simple present mirages, present participle miraging, simple past and past participle miraged)

1. (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
   • 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo^[1]:

     All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.

   • 1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories^[2]:

     The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.

Anagrams

• gamier, imager, maigre, Margie

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French

Etymology

mirer +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mi.ʁaʒ/, X-SAMPA: /mi.RaZ/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

mirage m (plural mirages)

1. mirage

Anagrams

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• maigre