Oscar

See also: oscar, Óscar, and Òscar

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔskɑ]

Symbol

Oscar

1. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

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English

Etymology

Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden.

Possibly from Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”).

Alternatively, inherited from Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”), from Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald). Compare German Ansgar (personal name), Danish Asker, Asger (personal name), Norwegian Asgeir (personal name), Icelandic Ásgeir (personal name).

(Academy Award): Disputed. Said to have been named by actress Bette Davis after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, or by secretary Margaret Herrick after her cousin Oscar Pierce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.kɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɒs.kə/

• Audio (CA)

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Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name from Irish or Old English.
   • 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 192:

     My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.

   • 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, →ISBN, page 134:

     Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

2. , a rare anglicization of Mac Oscair (“son of Oscar”) (McCusker).
3. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
4. A locale in the United States.
   1. An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for Kentucky Representative Oscar Turner.
   2. An unincorporated community in Louisiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for early settler Oscar Bradford.
   4. An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for local rancher Oscar W. Seay.
   5. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
   6. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

Derived terms

• Oscar the Grouch

Translations

male given name

• Arabic: أُوسْكَار m (ʾūskar)
• Armenian: Օսկար (Ōskar)
• Basque: Oskar (eu)
• Belarusian: О́скар m (Óskar)
• Bengali: অস্কার (oskar)
• Bulgarian: О́скар m (Óskar)
• Catalan: Òscar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧斯卡／奥斯卡 (zh) (Àosīkǎ), 奥斯卡 (zh) (Àosīkǎ)

• Czech: Oskar (cs) m
• Danish: Oskar
• Esperanto: Oskaro
• Estonian: Oskar
• Faroese: Oskar m
• Finnish: Oskari (fi)
• French: Oscar (fr) m
• Galician: Oscar (gl) m
• Georgian: ოსკარი (osḳari)
• German: Oskar (de) m, Oscar (de) m
• Greek: Όσκαρ (el) m (Óskar)
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• Hebrew: אוֹסְקָר (ósqar)
• Hindi: ऑस्कर m (ŏskar)
• Hungarian: Oszkár (hu)
• Italian: Oscar (it) m
• Japanese: オスカー (Osukā)
• Korean: 오스카 (oseuka)
• Latvian: Oskars m
• Macedonian: Оскар m (Oskar)
• Marathi: ऑस्कर m (ŏskar)
• Norwegian: Oskar (no)
• Persian: اسکار (fa) (oskar)
• Portuguese: Oscar (pt) m, Óscar (pt) m
• Russian: О́скар (ru) m (Óskar)
• Serbo-Croatian: Оскар m, Oskar m, Oscar m
• Skolt Sami: Å´sǩǩ, Ååskaž
• Spanish: Óscar (es) m
• Swedish: Oskar (sv), Oscar (sv)
• Thai: ออสการ์ (òt-gaa)
• Ukrainian: О́скар m (Óskar)

the letter "O"

• Estonian: Otto (et)
• Finnish: Otto (fi)
• German: Otto (de)
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• Italian: Otranto (it)
• Russian: О́льга (ru) f (Ólʹga)

Noun

Oscar (plural Oscars)

1. (informal) An Academy Award.
2. A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Derived terms

• Oscar bait
• Oscarworthy

See also

• (award): Academy Awards

Anagrams

• AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, ocras, orcas, sacro-, sarco-

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Catalan

Proper noun

Oscar m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Oscar

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Danish

Proper noun

Oscar

1. a male given name, variant of Oskar.

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Oscar

1. a male given name, variant of Oskar.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Oscar

1. a male given name, variant of Oskar.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Óscar

Proper noun

Oscar m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Oscar
2. Academy Awards; Oscar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Oscar.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• Oskar

Etymology

From English Oscar, from Middle Irish Oscar. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1803.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ɔskar/

Proper noun

Oscar c (genitive Oscars)

1. a male given name.

Usage notes

• Borne by two kings, the name became very popular in 19th century Sweden. It returned to favor in the end of the 20th century, as the most common first name of boys born in Sweden in the 2000s decade.

Related terms

• (surnames) Oscarsson, Oskarsson

See also

• Ossian

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 30 402 males with the given name Oscar (compared to 43 180 named Oskar) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.