Oscar

Etymology
Osgar:, from os: + cara: ; resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden. It can also be explained by anglo-saxon ōs 'god' and gār 'spear' (see Oswald, Osborn, Oswid, Osric, Oslak)

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 1847, page 192:
 * My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.
 * 1) * 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, ISBN 0060842245, page 134:
 * Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.
 * 1) The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
 * 1) The letter O in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

 * Oscar the Grouch

Translations

 * Arabic: أوسكار
 * Armenian: Օսկար
 * Belarusian: Оскар
 * Bengali: অস্কার
 * Bulgarian: Оскар
 * Catalan: Òscar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 奧斯卡, 奥斯卡
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ოსკარი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: Όσκαρ


 * Hebrew: אוסקר
 * Hindi: ऑस्कर
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: オスカー
 * Korean: 오스카
 * Latvian: Oskars
 * Macedonian: Оскар
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: اسکار
 * Russian: Оскар
 * Serbo-Croatian: Оскар, Oskar, Oscar
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ออสการ์
 * Ukrainian: Оскар


 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Anagrams

 * ASROC
 * carso
 * orcas

Proper noun

 * , a variant spelling of Oskar.

Proper noun

 * , a variant spelling of Oskar.

Proper noun

 * , a variant spelling of Oskar.

Alternative forms

 * Oskar

Etymology
Oscar: