mascara

See also: Mascara, mascará, máscara, and màscara

English

Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/, /məsˈkɑːɹə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈskɑːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/, /ˌmæsˈkɛɹə/

Noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

1. A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

   apply mascara

   put on mascara

   mascara runs

   mascara smudges

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

     With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

   • 2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

     There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

Derived terms

• browcara
• manscara

Translations

eyelash cosmetic

• Afrikaans: maskara
• Arabic: مَسْكَرَة f (maskara), رَقُّون m (raqqūn)
• Bengali: মাস্কারা (bn) (maskara)
• Bulgarian: грим за мигли m (grim za migli), спирала (bg) (spirala)
• Catalan: rímel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睫毛液

  Mandarin: 染睫毛油 (rǎn jiémáo yóu), 睫毛膏 (zh) (jiémáogāo)

• Czech: řasenka (cs) f
• Danish: mascara (da)
• Dutch: mascara (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: okulŝminko
• Estonian: tušš, ripsmetušš, ripsmevärv
• Finnish: ripsiväri (fi), maskara (fi)
• French: rimmel (fr) m, mascara (fr) m, ricil (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Wimperntusche (de) f; (neologism also) Mascara (de), Maskara f or m
• Greek: μάσκαρα (el) (máskara)
• Hindi: काजल (hi) m (kājal)
• Hungarian: szempillafesték (hu), szempillaspirál (hu)
• Icelandic: maskari m
• Indonesian: maskara (id)
• Italian: mascara (it) m, rimmel m
• Japanese: マスカラ (ja) (masukara)
• Korean: 마스카라 (ko) (maseukara)
• Māori: taekamo
• Persian: ریمل (fa) (rimel)
• Polish: tusz do rzęs (pl) m inan, tusz (pl) m inan, maskara (pl) f
• Portuguese: rímel (pt) m
• Romanian: mascara (ro) f
• Russian: тушь (ru) f (tušʹ) (для ресни́ц), тушь для ресни́ц f (tušʹ dlja resníc)
• Spanish: rímel (es) m, máscara de pestañas f, (Colombia) pestañina f
• Turkish: maskara (tr), rimel (tr)
• Ukrainian: туш (uk) f (tuš)
• Vietnamese: thuốc bôi mi mắt

Verb

mascara (third-person singular simple present mascaras, present participle mascaraing, simple past and past participle mascaraed)

1. To apply mascara to the eyelashes

Related terms

• mask

Anagrams

• Camaras, maracas, marasca

Catalan

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *mask- (“black, stained”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məsˈka.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [masˈka.ɾa]

Noun

mascara f (plural mascares)

1. soot
2. stain
3. sooty mold

   Synonym: fumagina

Derived terms

• emmascarar
• mascarell

Further reading

• “mascara”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dutch

Etymology

From English mascara. Doublet of masker.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra

Noun

mascara f or m (plural mascara's, diminutive mascaraatje n)

1. mascara

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mascara”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mascara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.ka.ʁa/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

mascara m (plural mascaras)

1. mascara

Further reading

• “mascara”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mascara, from Italian (archaic) mascara. Doublet of maschera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /masˈka.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: ma‧scà‧ra

Noun

mascara m (invariable)

1. mascara

   Synonym: rimmel

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.ka.ra/
• Rhymes: -askara
• Hyphenation: mà‧sca‧ra

Noun

mascara f (plural mascare)

1. archaic or dialectal form of maschera (“mask”)

Further reading

• mascara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• marasca

Portuguese

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar
2. inflection of mascarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مسقره (maskara).

Noun

mascara f (plural mascarale)

1. derision, ridicule, mocking
2. (dated) clown

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mascar

Swedish

Alternative forms

• maskara

Noun

mascara c

1. mascara

Declension

Declension of mascara

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mascara	mascaras
	definite	mascaran	mascarans
plural	indefinite	mascaror	mascarors
	definite	mascarorna	mascarornas

See also

• smink (“makeup”)
• sminka (“put on makeup”)

References

• “mascara”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “mascara”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)