See also: Sonar, SONAR, sónar, and soñar

English

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Etymology

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From SONAR, acronym of sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

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sonar (countable and uncountable, plural sonars)

  1. (nautical) echolocation
  2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

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  • SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

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  • Catalan: sonar
  • Dutch: sonar
  • French: sonar
  • German: Sonar
  • Italian: sonar
  • Polish: sonar
  • Portuguese: sonar
  • Serbo-Croatian: sonar
  • Spanish: sonar

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan sonar, from Latin sonāre.

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sonar (first-person singular present sono, first-person singular preterite soní, past participle sonat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

  1. (intransitive) to sound, to make a sound
  2. (intransitive) to ring, to buzz
  3. (figurative, intransitive) to ring a bell
    Em sona la seva cara.His face looks familiar.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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sonar m (uncountable)

  1. sonar

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Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Borrowed from English sonar.

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sonar m (plural sonars)

  1. sonar

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French

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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sonar m (plural sonars)

  1. sonar

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Icelandic

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sonar

  1. indefinite genitive singular of sonur

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From Esperanto soni (to sound), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin sonō (to make a noise).

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sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

  1. to ring

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Occitan

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sonar

  1. to call (to name or refer to)
    Synonyms: cridar, apelar

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Old Norse

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sonar

  1. genitive singular of sonr

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.nar/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnar
  • Syllabification: so‧nar

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sonar m inan

  1. (nautical) sonar (device for locating objects underwater)
    Synonym: asdic

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Further reading

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  • sonar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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  • Hyphenation: so‧nar

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sonar m (plural sonares)

  1. (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sonar.

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sonar n (plural sonare)

  1. sonar

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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  • IPA(key): /sǒnaːr/
  • Hyphenation: so‧nar

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sònār m (Cyrillic spelling со̀на̄р)

  1. sonar

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /soˈnaɾ/ [soˈnaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: so‧nar

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish sonar, inherited from Latin sonāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (to sound, resound).

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sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

  1. (intransitive) to sound, to ring
  2. (intransitive) to sound (appear)
    Suena como que ya te has decidido.
    It sounds like your mind is made up.
    Suena como si no tuviéramos otra opción.
    It sounds like we don't have any other choice.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) to ring a bell, to be familiar
    Me suena el nombre, pero no lo ubico.
    His name rings a bell but I can't place him.
  4. (transitive) to make sound, to play
    Synonym: tocar
    sonar la bocinato sound the horn
  5. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose
    Despues de estornudar, me soné la nariz.
    After I sneezed, I blew my nose.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English sonar.

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sonar m (plural sonares)

  1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)
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Swedish

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sonar c

  1. (nautical) sonar (echolocation)
  2. (nautical) a sonar (device)

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Declension of sonar 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative sonar sonarn
Genitive sonars sonarns

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sonar

  1. present indicative of sona

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Venetian

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Etymology

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From Latin sonāre, present active infinitive of sonō. Compare Italian suonare.

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sonar

  1. (transitive) to play, sound

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  • Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.