oar

See also: OAR and öar

English

an oar

Etymology

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.

Pronunciation

• In British & some other non-rhotic accents:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔː/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /oə/
  • Homophones: aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• In US & some other rhotic accents:
  • (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /ɔɹ/

  • Audio (US)

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  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōr, IPA^(key): /o(ː)ɹ/
  • Homophones: ore, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

oar (plural oars)

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

   Synonym: paddle

2. An oarsman; a rower.

   He is a good oar.

3. (zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Derived terms

• stick one's oar in

Translations

implement used to row a boat

• Abkhaz: ажәҩа (aẑʷjʷa)
• Adyghe: къошъобэщ (qʷošʷobɛś)
• Afrikaans: riem
• Aklanon: bugsay
• Albanian: rrem (sq) m, lugatë (sq) f, lopatë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِجْذَاف‎ m (mijḏāf), مِجْدَاف‎ (ar) m (mijdāf)
• Armenian: թիակ (hy) (tʿiak), թի (hy) (tʿi)
• Assamese: বঠা (botha)
• Asturian: remu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: kürək (az), avar (az)
• Bashkir: ишкәк (işkäk)
• Basque: arraun
• Belarusian: вясло́ n (vjasló)
• Bengali: মাঝি (majhi), বৈঠা (bōiṭha)
• Bulgarian: гребло́ (bg) n (grebló), весло́ (bg) n (vesló)
• Burmese: တက် (my) (tak)
• Buryat: һэлюур (heljuur)
• Catalan: rem (ca) m
• Chamicuro: kolo'sheta
• Chechen: пийсак (piisak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 槳／桨 (zoeng²)

  Mandarin: 槳／桨 (zh) (jiǎng)

• Chuvash: кӗсмен (kĕsmen)
• Crimean Tatar: qayıq küregi, kürek
• Czech: veslo (cs) n, pádlo (cs) n
• Danish: åre (da) c
• Dolgan: эрдии (erdii)
• Dutch: riem (nl), roeiriem (nl)
• Erzya: миле (miľe)
• Esperanto: remilo
• Estonian: aer (et)
• Even: уливун (uliwun)
• Evenki: гэвун (gəwun), уливун (uliwun)
• Faroese: ár (fo) f
• Fijian: voce
• Finnish: airo (fi)
• French: rame (fr) f, aviron (fr) m
• Friulian: rem m
• Galician: remo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნიჩაბი (ničabi), ხოფი (xopi)
• German: Ruder (de) n
• Greek: κουπί (el) n (koupí)

  Ancient: κώπη f (kṓpē), (poetic) ἐρετμόν n (eretmón)

• Greenlandic: ipak
• Hawaiian: hoe
• Hebrew: מָשׁוֹט‎ (he) m (mashót)
• Hindi: पतवार (hi) f (patvār), चप्पू (hi) m (cappū), डांड़ (ḍānz), खेवनी f (khevnī), अरित्र (hi) m (aritra), डाँड़ (hi) m (ḍā̃ṛ), क्षेपणी (hi) f (kṣepṇī), बल्ली (hi) f (ballī)
• Hungarian: evező (hu), evezőlapát (hu)
• Icelandic: ár (is) f
• Indonesian: dayung (id)
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: rámh m
• Istriot: rimo m
• Italian: remo (it) m
• Japanese: 櫂 (ja) (かい, kai)
• Javanese: dhayung
• Karelian: airo
• Kazakh: ескек (eskek), қалақ (qalaq)
• Khmer: ច្រវា (km) (crɑvaa)
• Korean: 노(櫓) (ko) (no), 로(櫓) (ko) (ro) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bêrik (ku)

• Kyrgyz: калак (ky) (kalak)
• Lao: ແຊວ (sǣu)
• Latin: rēmus (la)
• Latvian: airis m
• Laz: ხოპე (xop̌e)
• Lithuanian: irklas m
• Macedonian: ве́сло n (véslo)
• Maguindanao: dayong
• Malay: dayung
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: lacqessut
• Maltese: moqdief m
• Maori: hoe
• Maranao: dayong
• Mazanderani: فیه‎ (fiye)
• Minangkabau: dayuang
• Mingrelian: ხოპი (xoṗi)
• Moksha: миле (miľe)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сэлүүр (mn) (selüür)

• Nanai: гиол
• Ngazidja Comorian: nkasi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åre (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: åre f

• Ojibwe: azheboyaanaak
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: весло n (veslo)

• Old East Slavic: весло n (veslo)
• Old English: ār f
• Old Norse: ár f
• Ossetian: донвиййаг (donvijjag)
• Pashto: پارو‎ (ps) m (pāru)
• Persian: پارو‎ (fa) (pâru)
• Plautdietsch: Roodel f
• Polish: wiosło (pl) n
• Portuguese: remo (pt) m
• Romanian: ramă (ro) f, vâslă (ro) f
• Russian: весло́ (ru) n (vesló)
• Sanskrit: अरित्र (sa) n (aritra)
• Scottish Gaelic: ràmh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐсло n

  Roman: vèslo (sh) n

• Sicilian: remu m
• Skolt Sami: äirr
• Slovak: veslo (sk) n
• Slovene: veslo (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wjasło n

  Upper Sorbian: wjesło n

• Southern Altai: адалгы (adalgï)
• Spanish: remo (es) m
• Swedish: åra (sv) c
• Tagalog: gaod, sagwan
• Tajik: бели заврақ (beli zavraq), бел (tg) (bel)
• Talysh: avar
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: ишкәк (tt) (işkäk)
• Telugu: తెడ్డు (te) (teḍḍu)
• Thai: กรรเชียง (th) (gan-chiiang)
• Turkish: kürek (tr)
• Turkmen: kürek
• Udmurt: полыс (polys)
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎘𐎉 (mṯṭ)
• Ukrainian: весло́ n (vesló)
• Urdu: چَپُّو‎ m (cappū), پَتْوار‎ f (patvār)
• Uyghur: ئەشكەك‎ (eshkek)
• Uzbek: eshkak (uz)
• Venetian: remo m
• Vietnamese: chèo (vi)
• Welsh: rhwyf f
• Yakut: эрдии (erdii)
• Yiddish: וועסלע‎ f (vesle), רודער‎ m (ruder), יאָסלע‎ f (yosle)

Verb

oar (third-person singular simple present oars, present participle oaring, simple past and past participle oared)

1. (literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.
   • 1866, Thomas S. Muir, Barra Head, page 52:

     The weather was fine, and whilst oaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

   • 1996, Peter J. Bowler, Life's Splendid Drama:

     In Nopsca's theory, flight evolved as a means of running more quickly over the ground: "Birds originated from bipedal, long-tailed cursorial reptiles which during running oared along in the air by flapping their free anterior extremities."

Translations

row — see row

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, aro, ora

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian other.

Adjective

oar

1. other
2. different

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• feroarje

Further reading

• “oar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011