mascara

See also: Mascara, mascará, máscara, and màscara

English

Etymology

Italian maschera (“mask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/, /məsˈkɑːɹə/
• IPA^(key): /məˈskɑːɹə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/

Noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

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

Translations

eyelash cosmetic

• Catalan: rímel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睫毛液

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

• Czech: řasenka f
• Danish: mascara (da)
• Dutch: mascara (nl) m or f
• 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: maskari m
• Italian: mascara (it) m, rimmel m
• Japanese: マスカラ (masukara)
• Korean: 마스카라 (ko) (maseukara)
• Maori: taekamo
• Persian: ریمل (fa) (rimel)
• Polish: tusz do rzęs (pl) m
• 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
• 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

Anagrams

• Camaras, maracas, marasca

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Dutch

Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra

Noun

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

1. mascara

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian mascara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.ka.ʁa/

• Audio:

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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.

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Italian

Etymology

See maschera

Noun

mascara m (uncountable)

1. mascara

Synonyms

• rimmel

Anagrams

• marasca

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Portuguese

Verb

mascara

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Spanish

Verb

mascara

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of mascar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of mascar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect subjunctive form of mascar.