escara

Borrowed from Late Latin eschara (“scar, scab”), from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “hearth, brazier, scab”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.ka.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛskara
• Hyphenation: è‧sca‧ra

escara f (plural escare)

1. (medicine) scab, eschar

• scarioso

• ascerà, ascrea, casera, cerasa, esarca

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧ra

escara f (plural escaras)

1. bedsore (lesion caused by staying in bed for too long)

• “escara”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “escara”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaɾa/ [esˈka.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ra

escara f (plural escaras)

1. scab
2. bedsore

• “escara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025