scar

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)

Etymology 1

Conflation of Old French escare "scab" (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhara) "scab left from a burn"); 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 sceard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard

Noun

Wikipedia scar (plural scars)

1. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

Translations

a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound

Arabic: ندبة f. Armenian: սպի (hy) (spi) Azeri: çapıq (az), yara yeri (az) Basque: orbain (eu) Catalan: cicatriu (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 疤 (cmn) (bā), 傷疤 (cmn), 伤疤 (cmn) (shāngbā), 傷痕 (cmn), 伤痕 (cmn) (shānghén), 疤痕 (cmn), 疤痕 (cmn) (bāhén) Croatian: ožiljak (hr) m. Czech: jizva (cs) f. Danish: ar (da) n. Dutch: litteken (nl) n. Esperanto: cikatro (eo) Estonian: arm (et) Finnish: arpi (fi) French: cicatrice (fr) f., balafre (fr) Georgian: ნაიარევი (ka) (naiarevi), ნაჭრილობევი (ka) (nač‘rilobevi) German: Narbe (de) f. Greek: ουλή (el) (oulí) f. Hebrew: צלקת (he) Hungarian: forradás (hu), heg (hu), sebhely (hu) Icelandic: ör (is) n. Irish: colm (ga) m. Italian: cicatrice (it) f. Japanese: 傷 (きず, kizu), 瘢痕 (ja) (はんこん, hankon)

Korean: 흉터 (hyungteo) Latin: cicatrix (la) f. Latvian: rēta (lv) Lithuanian: blizna (lt) Maltese: cikatrici f. Mongolian: сорви (mn) Navajo: sid Norwegian: arr (no) n. Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: اثرزخم (fa) Polish: blizna (pl) f. Portuguese: cicatriz (pt) f. Romanian: cicatrice (ro) f. Russian: шрам (ru) (šram) m., рубец (ru) (rubéts) m. Scottish Gaelic: leòn m. Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: brazgotina (sl) f. Spanish: cicatriz (es) f., alforza (es) f. Swedish: ärr (sv) n. Tagalog: peklat (tl) Telugu: మచ్చ (macca) Thai: แผลเป็น (plăe bpen) Turkish: yara izi (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Volapük: skar (vo) Welsh: craith (cy) f.

Synonyms

• cicatrice

Verb

scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)

1. To mark the skin permanently

Translations

to mark the skin permanently

Basque: orbaindu (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 留下疤痕 (liúxià bāhén) Czech: zjizvit (cs) Finnish: jättää arpi (fi)

French: cicatriser (fr) Greek: σημαδεύω (el) (simadévo) Latin: notare (la) Spanish: cicatrizarse (es)

Derived terms

• scar tissue

See also

• birthmark

Etymology 2

From old norse sker

Noun

scar (plural scars)

1. a cliff
2. a rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water

Anagrams

• arcs
• cars

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish scaraim.

Verb

scar (verbal noun scaradh)

1. to sever
2. to separate
3. to tear asunder

Inflection

First Conjugation (A)

		singular			plural			autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	scaraim	scarann tú; scarair†	scarann sé, sí	scaraimid	scarann sibh	scarann siad; scaraid†	scartar
	past	scar mé; scaras†	scar tú; scarais†	scar sé, sí	scaramar	scar sibh; scarabhair†	scar siad; scaradar†	scaradh
	future	scarfaidh mé; scarfad†	scarfaidh tú; scarfair†	scarfaidh sé, sí	scarfaimid; scarfam†	scarfaidh sibh	scarfaidh siad; scarfaid†	scarfar
	past habitual	scarainn	scartá	scaradh sé, sí	scaraimis	scaradh sibh	scaraidís	scartaí
imperative		scaraim	scar	scaradh sé, sí	scaraimis	scaraigí	scaraidís	scartar
conditional		scarfainn	scarfá	scarfadh sé, sí	scarfaimis	scarfadh sibh	scarfaidís	scarfaí
subjunctive	present	scara mé; scarad†	scara tú; scarair†	scara sé, sí	scaraimid	scara sibh	scara siad; scaraid†	scartar
	past	scarainn	scartá	scaradh sé, sí	scaraimis	scaradh sibh	scaraidís	scartaí
verbal noun		scaradh
past participle		scartha

† Dialect form

See also

• dealaigh
• deighil