oasis

See also: oásis, Oasis, OASIS, and Ὄασις

English

The Huacachina Oasis in Peru

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة‎ (wāḥa).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈeɪsɪs/, /əʊˈeɪsəs/
• (US) enPR: ō-ā'sĭs, ō-ā'səs, IPA^(key): /oʊˈeɪsɪs/, /oʊˈeɪsəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs, -eɪsəs

Noun

oasis (plural oases or (rare, sometimes proscribed) oasises)

1. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!

   • 2015, Michael Welland, “Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports”, in The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders‎^[1], Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:

     On the edge of the dunes lies the oasis town of Dunhuang, a key strategic crossroads on the Silk Road as the routes divided to the west to skirt the Taklamakan to the north and south.

2. (figurative) A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

   Synonyms: island, refuge

   The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.

   • 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:

     [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Related terms

• oasal
• oasitic

Translations

spring surrounded by fertile area

• Albanian: oazë (sq) f
• Arabic: وَاحَة‎ (ar) f (wāḥa), غُوطَة‎ f (ḡūṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: واح‎ m (wāḥ)

• Armenian: օազիս (hy) (ōazis)
• Assamese: মৰুদ্যান (moruiddan)
• Asturian: oasis m
• Azerbaijani: vahə
• Basque: oasi
• Belarusian: аа́зіс (be) m (aázis)
• Bengali: মরুদ্যান (moruddan)
• Bulgarian: оа́зис (bg) m (oázis)
• Burmese: အိုအေစစ် (my) (uiecac)
• Catalan: oasi (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⴷⴰ (amda)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 綠洲／绿洲 (luk⁶ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 綠洲／绿洲 (zh) (lǜzhōu)

  Min Nan: 綠洲／绿洲 (le̍k-chiu)

• Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) (Sahidic)
• Czech: oáza (cs) f
• Danish: oase (da) c
• Dutch: oase (nl) f
• Esperanto: oazo
• Estonian: oaas (et)
• Faroese: grøna f
• Finnish: keidas (fi)
• French: oasis (fr) f
• Galician: oasis (gl) m
• Georgian: ოაზისი (oazisi)
• German: Oase (de) f
• Greek: όαση (el) f (óasi)

  Ancient: ὄασις f (óasis)

• Hebrew: נווה‎ m (navé), אוֹאָזִיס‎ (he) m (oázis)
• Hindi: नख़लिस्तान m (naxlistān), मरूद्यान m (marūdyān), शाद्वल (hi) (śādval), ओएसिस (oesis)
• Hungarian: oázis (hu)
• Icelandic: vin (is) f
• Ido: oaziso (io)
• Indonesian: oasis (id), oase (id), wahah (id)
• Irish: ósais f
• Italian: oasi (it) f
• Japanese: オアシス (oashisu)
• Kalmyk: оазис (oazis)
• Kazakh: шұрат (kk) (şūrat), оазис (oazis)
• Khmer: អូអេស៊ីស (ʼouʼeesiih)
• Korean: 오아시스 (ko) (oasiseu), 천지(泉地) (ko) (cheonji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: wahe (ku)

• Kyrgyz: оазис (oazis)
• Latvian: oāze f
• Lithuanian: oazė (lt) f
• Lombard: oasi f
• Macedonian: оа́за f (oáza)
• Malay: wahah
• Maori: puna manawa
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: баян бүрд (bajan bürd), ногоон бүрд (nogoon bürd)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ
  ᠪᠦᠷᠢᠳᠦ (bayan büridü), ᠨᠣᠭᠤᠭᠠᠨ
  ᠪᠦᠷᠢᠳᠦ (noɣuɣan büridü)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oase (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: واحه‎‎ (vaha)
• Pashto: واحه‎ f (wāha)
• Persian: واحِه‎ (fa) (vâhe), آبادی‎ (fa) (âbâdi)
• Piedmontese: òasi f
• Polish: oaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: oásis (pt) m
• Romanian: oază (ro) f
• Russian: оа́зис (ru) m (oázis)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оа́за f

  Roman: oáza (sh) f

• Slovak: oáza f
• Slovene: oaza (sl) f
• Spanish: oasis (es) m
• Swedish: oas (sv) c
• Tagalog: owasis, oasis
• Tajik: воҳа (voha)
• Tatar: ваһа (waha), оазис (oazis)
• Thai: โอเอซิส (oo-ee-sís)
• Turkish: vaha (tr)
• Turkmen: oazis, waha
• Ukrainian: оа́зис (uk) m (oázys)
• Urdu: نَخْلِسْتان‎ m (naxlistān)
• Uyghur: يېشىلزارلىق‎ (yëshilzarliq), بوستانلىق‎ (bostanliq), ۋاھە‎ (wahe)
• Uzbek: voha (uz), oazis (uz)
• Vietnamese: ốc đảo (vi) (沃島)
• Volapük: loasid
• Welsh: gwerddon (cy) f
• Yiddish: אָאַזיס‎ m (oazis)

quiet or peaceful place

• Belarusian: аа́зіс (be) m (aázis)
• Bulgarian: оа́зис (bg) m (oázis)
• Catalan: oasi (ca) m
• Czech: oáza (cs) f
• Esperanto: oazo
• Finnish: keidas (fi)
• Galician: oasis (gl) m
• Georgian: ოაზისი (oazisi)
• German: Oase (de) f
• Greek: όαση (el) f (óasi)
• Hungarian: oázis (hu)
• Macedonian: оа́за f (oáza)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oase (no) m

• Polish: oaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: oásis (pt) m
• Russian: оа́зис (ru) m (oázis)
• Spanish: oasis (es) m
• Turkish: cennet (tr)
• Ukrainian: оа́зис (uk) m (oázys)

Anagrams

• Osias, ossia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.a.zis/

• Audio

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Noun

oasis m or f (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• osais

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈa.sis/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

oasis m (plural oases)

1. oasis (spring of fresh water in a desert)
2. oasis (quiet, peaceful place)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

Doublet of oase and wahah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈa.sis/
• Rhymes: -sis, -is

Noun

oasis (plural oasis-oasis, first-person possessive oasisku, second-person possessive oasismu, third-person possessive oasisnya)

1. oasis

   Synonym: wahah

Synonyms

• (land surrounded by water): nusa, pulau

Further reading

• “oasis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoɑ̯siːs/

Noun

oasis

1. locative singular of oassi

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Oasis (“name of various oases”), from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈasis/ [oˈa.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: o‧a‧sis

Noun

oasis m (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Further reading

• “oasis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oasis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧a‧sis
• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈasis/, [ʔoˈa.sɪs]

Noun

oasis (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜏᜐᜒᜐ᜔)

1. oasis

Further reading

• “oasis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018