skär

See also: skar, skår, and skær

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧæːr/
• Rhymes: -æːr

• Audio (Gotland, non-standard ⟨sk⟩):

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

en skär damsko

a pink women's shoe

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)

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

ett skär

skär n

1. a skerry (small rocky island, 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

• skärgård

Descendants

• → Russian: шхе́ра (šxéra)

See also

• kobbe

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

• skärseld
• skärtorsdag
• skärgård

See also

• oskärad
• ren och skär
• skir

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

skär

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

References

• skär in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skär in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skär in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• skär in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• särk