oar

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
2. An oarsman; a rower.
3. An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Verb

To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Concepts

rame

aviron

pagaie

gouvernail

rameur

aviron de nage

Synonyms

paddle

scull

row

oarsman

rower

outboard motor

pole

punt

rover

rowing

rudder

shaft

string

🪢

sweep

row a boat

long oar

punting-pole

bat

🦇

stern-oar

boat

⛵

canoe

🛶

helm

judgement

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɔː/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: ore

Inherited from ancien anglais: ār

Cognate with vieux norrois: ár

In summary

From Middle English ore (“oar”), from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Old Norse ár.