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scar

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.

Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.

NounEdit

scar (plural scars)

  1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
  2. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
    • 2011, O. P. Sharma, Be a Winner, →ISBN:
      Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success.
  3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
    • 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
      Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
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VerbEdit

scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)

  1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
  2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
    • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
      Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
    • 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 161:
      And black skin scars badly. Whatʼs left behind stays pink and angry, always.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
    Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.

NounEdit

scar (plural scars)

  1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
    • 1847, Tennyson, “The Bugle Song”, in The Princess:
      O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / ⁠And thinner, clearer, farther going! / O sweet and far from cliff and scar / ⁠The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
    • 1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin:
      All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.
  2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
  3. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
TranslationsEdit
cliff — see cliff
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Etymology 3Edit

From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).

NounEdit

scar (plural scars)

  1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

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 scar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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IrishEdit

FWOTD – 22 August 2020

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

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VerbEdit

scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)

  1. (transitive) sever
  2. (transitive) separate
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
      Do bhí brón mór air a bheith ag scaramhaint le n-a chailín ach ni raibh leigheas air, chaithfeadh sé imtheacht.
      He was very sorry to be separating from his girl, but it couldn’t be helped, he had to go.
    Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil
  3. (transitive) tear asunder

ConjugationEdit

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present scaraim scarann tú;
scarair†		 scarann sé, sí scaraimid scarann sibh scarann siad;
scaraid†		 a scarann; a scaras scartar
past scar mé; scaras scar tú; scarais scar sé, sí scaramar; scar muid scar sibh; scarabhair scar siad; scaradar a scar /
ar scar* 		scaradh
past habitual scarainn scartá scaradh sé, sí scaraimis; scaradh muid scaradh sibh scaraidís; scaradh siad a scaradh /
a scaradh* 		scartaí
future scarfaidh mé;
scarfad 		scarfaidh tú;
scarfair†		 scarfaidh sé, sí scarfaimid;
scarfaidh muid 		scarfaidh sibh scarfaidh siad;
scarfaid†		 a scarfaidh; a scarfas scarfar
conditional scarfainn scarfá scarfadh sé, sí scarfaimis; scarfadh muid scarfadh sibh scarfaidís; scarfadh siad a scarfadh /
a scarfadh* 		scarfaí
subjunctive present go scara mé;
go scarad†		 go scara tú;
go scarair†		 go scara sé, sí go scaraimid;
go scara muid 		go scara sibh go scara siad;
go scaraid†		 — go scartar
past dá scarainn dá scartá dá scaradh sé, sí dá scaraimis;
dá scaradh muid 		dá scaradh sibh dá scaraidís;
dá scaradh siad 		— dá scartaí
imperative scaraim scar scaradh sé, sí scaraimis scaraigí;
scaraidh†		 scaraidís — scartar
verbal noun scaradh
past participle scartha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

Derived termsEdit

  • soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)

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·scar

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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