skar
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the root of scare.
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]skar (comparative more skar, superlative most skar)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]skar (plural skars)
- (historical) A Tibetan unit of weight, equivalent to one hundredth of a srang.
- (historical) A Tibetan monetary unit used in the first half of the 20th century.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]skar
Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]skar n (genitive singular skars, nominative plural skör)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “skar” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Latvian
[edit]Verb
[edit]skar
- inflection of skart:
- (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of skart
- (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of skart
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]skar
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]skar
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse skarð, from Proto-Germanic *skardą. Cognates include English shard.
Alternative forms
[edit]- skard (alternative spelling)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
- a mountain pass; a navigable ravine
- Synonyms: fjellovergang, pass
- a shard
- a notch, chink, gap
Etymology 3
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From Old Norse skarsl. Related to skjera (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
Etymology 4
[edit]From Old Norse skǫr f, from Proto-Germanic *skarō. Related to skjera (“to cut”). Cognates include English share.
Noun
[edit]skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)
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Etymology 5
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]skar
References
[edit]- “skar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Verb
[edit]skar
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]skar
- past indicative of skära
Anagrams
[edit]- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- British English
- Scottish English
- English dialectal terms
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic neuter nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian verb forms
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (cut)
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Landforms
- Old Norse non-lemma forms
- Old Norse verb forms
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish verb forms