scar

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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 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.

Noun

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.
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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
    • Shakespeare
      Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
  2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
  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 2

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. Doublet of skerry.

Noun

scar (plural scars)

  1. A cliff.
  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.
Translations
cliff — see cliff
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈskaɾˠ/

Verb

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

  1. to sever
  2. to 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.
  3. to tear asunder

Conjugation
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 /
ar 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 /
ar 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

Synonyms

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

Further reading
  • “scaraid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “scaraim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
  • "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Verb

·scar

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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