skär

See also: skar, skår, and skær

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧæːr/
  • 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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