skär

See also: skar, skår, and skær

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧæːr/
  • IPA(key): /ʃæːr/ (Finland)
  • Audio (Gotland):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æːr

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from French chair (“meat”), from the phrase couleur de chair (“carnation”).

    Adjective

    skär (comparative skärare, superlative skärast)

    1. pink (having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people)
    Declension
    Inflection of skär
    Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
    common singular skär skärare skärast
    neuter singular skärt skärare skärast
    plural skära skärare skärast
    masculine plural2 skäre skärare skärast
    Definite positive comparative superlative
    masculine singular3 skäre skärare skäraste
    all skära skärare skäraste

    1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
    2 Dated or archaic.
    3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

    Synonyms
    • (pink): rosa (never with a beige hue)
    See also
    Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)
         vit      grå      svart
                 röd; karmosin, karmosinröd, blodröd              orange (common), brandgul (now uncommon); brun              gul; beige
                 limegrön              grön              mintgrön
                 turkos (common), cyan (rare); blågrön, teal              himmelsblå, azur              blå
                 lila, violett, gredelin (light lavender, now uncommon); indigo              magenta; purpur              rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

    Etymology 2

      From Old Norse sker. Cognate to English skerry, Irish sceir, Scottish Gaelic sgeir, Danish skær, Norwegian Bokmål skjær, Norwegian Nynorsk skjer, Icelandic sker, Faroese sker, and Finnish kari.

      Noun

      skär n

      2. a skerry (small rocky island, rock in the sea, often elongated)
        kobbar och skär
        islets and skerries
      Declension
      Declension of skär
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite skär skärs
      definite skäret skärets
      plural indefinite skär skärs
      definite skären skärens
      Derived terms
      Descendants
      • → Russian: шхе́ра (šxéra)

      See also

      Etymology 3

        From Old Swedish skær, from Old Norse skærr (“pure, bright, clear”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *skairiz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱēy- (“luster, gloss, shadow”). Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hirrë (“whey, serum”).

        Adjective

        skär (comparative skärare, superlative skärast)

        1. (dated) pure, clean
          ren och skär tur
          pure luck (idiomatic – can also be expressed as "ren tur")
        Declension
        Inflection of skär
        Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
        common singular skär skärare skärast
        neuter singular skärt skärare skärast
        plural skära skärare skärast
        masculine plural2 skäre skärare skärast
        Definite positive comparative superlative
        masculine singular3 skäre skärare skäraste
        all skära skärare skäraste

        1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
        2 Dated or archaic.
        3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

        Derived terms
        See also

        Etymology 4

        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

        Verb

        skär

        1. inflection of skära:
          1. present indicative
          2. imperative

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