Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔskɑ]

Symbol

Oscar

1. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

English

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name.
   • 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 192:

     My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.

   • 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation **** Gate, HarperEntertainment, ISBN 0060842245, page 134:

     Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

2. The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

• Oscar the Grouch

Translations

Noun

Oscar ‎(plural Oscars)

1. (informal) An Academy Award.
2. A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Derived terms

See also

• (award): Academy Awards

Anagrams

• ASROC
• carso
• orcas

Danish

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

German

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Oskar.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Óscar

Proper noun

Oscar m

1. A male given name, equivalent to English Oscar
2. Academy Awards; Oscar

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Oscar.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Oskar

Etymology

From English Oscar. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1803.

Proper noun

Oscar

1. A male given name.

Usage notes

• Borne by two kings, the name became very popular in 19th century Sweden. It returned to favor in the end of the 20th century, as the most common first name of boys born in Sweden in the 2000s decade.

Related terms

• (surnames) Oscarsson, Oskarsson

See also

• Ossian

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 30 402 males with the given name Oscar (compared to 43 180 named Oskar) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

English

Noun

oscar ‎(plural oscars)

1. Astronotus ocellatus, a cichlid fish, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.

Irish

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

• "oscar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 oscar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “oscor” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.