mascara

See also: Mascara, mascará, máscara, and màscara

English

Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/, /məsˈkɑːɹə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈskɑːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/

Noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

1. A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.

   apply mascara

   put on mascara

   mascara runs

   mascara smudges

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

     With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

   • 2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

     There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

Translations

eyelash cosmetic

• Afrikaans: maskara
• Bengali: মাস্কারা (bn) (maskara)
• Bulgarian: грим за мигли m (grim za migli), спирала (bg) (spirala)
• Catalan: rímel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睫毛液

  Mandarin: 染睫毛油 (rǎn jiémáo yóu), 睫毛膏 (zh) (jiémáogāo)

• Czech: řasenka f
• Danish: mascara (da)
• Dutch: mascara (nl) m or f
• Finnish: ripsiväri (fi), maskara (fi)
• French: rimmel (fr) m, mascara (fr) m, ricil (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Wimperntusche (de) f; (neologism also) Mascara (de), Maskara f or m
• Greek: μάσκαρα (el) (máskara)
• Hindi: काजल (hi) m (kājal)
• Hungarian: szempillafesték (hu), szempillaspirál (hu)
• Icelandic: maskari m
• Indonesian: maskara (id)
• Italian: mascara (it) m, rimmel m
• Japanese: マスカラ (ja) (masukara)
• Korean: 마스카라 (ko) (maseukara)
• Maori: taekamo
• Persian: ریمل (fa) (rimel)
• Polish: tusz do rzęs (pl) m, tusz (pl) m, maskara (pl) f
• Portuguese: rímel (pt) m
• Romanian: mascara (ro) f
• Russian: тушь (ru) f (tušʹ) (для ресни́ц), тушь для ресни́ц f (tušʹ dlja resníc)
• Spanish: rímel (es) m, máscara de pestañas f, (Colombia) pestañina f
• Turkish: maskara (tr), rimel (tr)
• Ukrainian: туш (uk) f (tuš)
• Vietnamese: thuốc bôi mi mắt

Verb

mascara (third-person singular simple present mascaras, present participle mascaraing, simple past and past participle mascaraed)

1. To apply mascara to the eyelashes

Related terms

• mask

Anagrams

• Camaras, maracas, marasca

Catalan

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *mask- (“black, stained”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məsˈka.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [masˈka.ɾa]

Noun

mascara f (plural mascares)

1. soot
2. stain
3. sooty mold

   Synonym: fumagina

Derived terms

• emmascarar
• mascarell

Further reading

• “mascara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra

Noun

mascara f or m (plural mascara's, diminutive mascaraatje n)

1. mascara

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mascara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.ka.ʁa/

• Audio:

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Noun

mascara m (plural mascaras)

1. mascara

Further reading

• “mascara”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar

Italian

Etymology

See maschera

Noun

mascara m (invariable)

1. mascara

   Synonym: rimmel

Anagrams

• marasca

Portuguese

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar
2. inflection of mascarar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مسقره (maskara).

Noun

mascara f (plural mascarale)

1. derision, ridicule, mocking
2. (dated) clown

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mascara	{{{def}}}		mascarale	mascaralele
genitive-dative	mascarale	mascaralei		mascarale	mascaralelor
vocative	—			—

Spanish

Verb

mascara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mascar

Swedish

Alternative forms

• maskara

Noun

mascara c

1. mascara

Declension

Declension of mascara

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mascara	mascaras
	definite	mascaran	mascarans
plural	indefinite	mascaror	mascarors
	definite	mascarorna	mascarornas

See also

• smink (“makeup”)
• sminka (“put on makeup”)

References

• mascara in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mascara in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)