Oscar

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Signal flag for the letter O.
 * 2)  UTC&minus;02:00
 * 1)  UTC&minus;02:00

Translations

 * Czech:
 * English: Oboe
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: (aviation),   (military)

Etymology 1
Exact origin. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson, who became a king of Sweden.

The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first,, from  + ; and second, , , from  and  (see Oswald). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Disputed. Said to have been named by actress Bette Davis after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, or by secretary Margaret Herrick after her cousin Oscar Pierce.

Proper noun

 * 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.
 * , a rare anglicization of (McCusker).
 * Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.
 * , a rare anglicization of (McCusker).

Translations

 * Arabic: أُوسْكَار
 * Armenian: Օսկար
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: О́скар
 * Bengali: অস্কার
 * Bulgarian: О́скар
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Oskar
 * Esperanto: Oskaro
 * Estonian: Oskar
 * Faroese: Oskar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ოსკარი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אוֹסְקָר
 * Hindi: ऑस्कर
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Oscar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オスカー
 * Korean: 오스카
 * Latvian: Oskars
 * Macedonian: Оскар
 * Marathi: ऑस्कर
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Osgar
 * Serbo-Croatian: Оскар, Oskar, Oscar
 * Skolt Sami: Å´sǩǩ, Ååskaž
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ออสการ์
 * Ukrainian: О́скар
 * Yiddish: אָסקאַר

Noun

 * 1)   An Academy Award.
 * 2) A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Derived terms

 * legacy Oscar
 * Oscar bait
 * Oscarworthy

Etymology 2
Shortened form of Oscar Asche.

Noun

 * 1)  cash; money.

Noun

 * 1)  Academy Award

Etymology
From, from. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1803.

Usage notes

 * Borne by two kings, the name became very popular in 19th century Sweden. It returned to favor in the end of the 20th century, as the most common first name of boys born in Sweden in the 2000s decade.

Related terms

 * (surnames) ,