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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
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