oscar

English Online Dictionary. What means oscar‎? What does oscar mean?

Translingual

Noun

oscar

1. Alternative letter-case form of Oscar of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.kɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒs.kə/

Noun

oscar (plural oscars)

1. A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.

   Synonyms: marble cichlid, velvet cichlid

Further reading

• Oscar (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

oscar

1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Oscar from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Anagrams

• ASROC, ROSCA, orcas, Carso, Rasco, sarco-, ocras, AOCRs, Arcos, Rocas, sacro-, Coras

Catalan

Etymology

From osca +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [usˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [osˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [osˈkaɾ]

Verb

oscar (first-person singular present osco, first-person singular preterite osquí, past participle oscat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to nick, to dent (a blade)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• oscadís

Further reading

• “oscar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɔsˠkəɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌsˠkəɾˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oscar (“outsider, new-comer, stranger; layperson, non-professional person; unskilled person, ignorant person; foe, enemy (especially an unknown one or stranger); (in late poetry) warrior, hero”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. (literary) warrior, hero

Etymology 2

From Old Irish oscor, oscar m (“leap, bound”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. leap, bound; agility
2. (swimming) stroke

Alternative forms

• ascar

Declension

Mutation

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oscar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 oscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oscor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language