scar

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

scar (plural scars)

  1. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
Translations[edit]
a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound
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Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
    • Shakespeare
      Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
  2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
    Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Translations[edit]
to mark the skin permanently

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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse sker.

Noun[edit]

scar (plural scars)

  1. A cliff.
  2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
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Etymology 3[edit]

Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, “parrot-wrasse, Scarus cretensis”).

Noun[edit]

scar (plural scars)

  1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish scaraim.

Verb[edit]

scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)

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

Conjugation[edit]

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

† Dialect form

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