oasis

oasis

See also: oásis, Oasis, OASIS, and Ὄασις

English

The Huacachina Oasis in Peru

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة‎ (wāḥa).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊˈeɪsɪs/, /əʊˈeɪsəs/
• (US) enPR: ō-ā'sĭs, ō-ā'səs, IPA^(key): /oʊˈeɪsɪs/, /oʊˈeɪsəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs, -eɪsəs

Noun

oasis (plural oases or (rare, sometimes proscribed) oasises)

1. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!

   • 2015, Welland, Michael, “Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports”, in The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders‎, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, OCLC 1028499787, page 317:

     On the edge of the dunes lies the oasis town of Dunhuang, a key strategic crossroads on the Silk Road as the routes divided to the west to skirt the Taklamakan to the north and south.

2. (figuratively) A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

   Synonyms: island, refuge

   The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.

   • 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., OCLC 728542745, pages 11–12:

     […] there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Related terms

• oasal
• oasitic

Translations

well surrounded by fertile region

Arabic: وَاحَة‎ (ar) f (wāḥa), غُوطَة‎ f (ḡūṭa) Egyptian Arabic: واح‎ m (wāḥ) Armenian: օազիս (hy) (ōazis) Asturian: oasis m Basque: oasi Belarusian: аа́зіс (be) m (aázis) Bulgarian: оазис (bg) m (oazis) Catalan: oasi (ca) m Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⴷⴰ (amda) Chinese: Mandarin: 綠洲／绿洲 (zh) (lǜzhōu) Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) (Sahidic) Czech: oáza (cs) f Danish: oase (da) c Dutch: oase (nl) f Esperanto: oazo Estonian: oaas (et) Faroese: grøna f Finnish: keidas (fi) French: oasis (fr) f Galician: oasis (gl) m Georgian: ოაზისი (oazisi) German: Oase (de) f Greek: όαση (el) f (óasi) Ancient: ὄασις f (óasis) Hebrew: נווה‎ m (navé), אואזיס‎ (he) m (oázis) Hindi: नखलिस्तान m (nakhlistān) Hungarian: oázis (hu) Icelandic: vin (is) f Ido: oaziso (io) Irish: ósais f Italian: oasi (it) f Japanese: オアシス (oashisu) Kalmyk: оазис (oazis) Kazakh: шұрат (kk) (şūrat) Korean: 오아시스 (ko) (oasiseu), 천지 (ko) (cheonji) Lombard: oasi f Macedonian: оа́за f (oáza) Malay: wahah Maori: puna manawa Norwegian: oase (no) m Persian: واحه‎ (fa) (vâhe), آبادی‎ (fa) (âbâdi) Piedmontese: òasi f Polish: oaza (pl) f Portuguese: oásis (pt) m Romanian: oază (ro) f Russian: оа́зис (ru) m (oázis) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: оаза f Roman: oaza (sh) f Slovene: oaza (sl) f Spanish: oasis (es) m Swedish: oas (sv) c Tagalog: owasis, oasis Tajik: воҳа (voha) Turkish: vaha (tr) Ukrainian: оа́зис (uk) m (oázys) Urdu: نخلستان‎ m (nakhlistān) Uzbek: voha (uz) Vietnamese: ốc đảo (vi) Volapük: loasid Welsh: gwerddon (cy) f Yiddish: אָאַזיס‎ m (oazis)

quiet or peaceful place

Bulgarian: оазис (bg) m (oazis) Catalan: oasi (ca) m Czech: oáza (cs) f Esperanto: oazo Finnish: keidas (fi) Galician: oasis (gl) m Georgian: ოაზისი (oazisi) German: Oase (de) f Greek: όαση (el) f (óasi) Hungarian: oázis (hu) Macedonian: оа́за f (oáza) Norwegian: oase (no) m Polish: oaza (pl) f Portuguese: oásis (pt) m Russian: оа́зис (ru) m (oázis) Spanish: oasis (es) m Turkish: cennet (tr)

Anagrams

• Osias, ossia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.a.zis/

• Audio

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Noun

oasis m or f (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• osais

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Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈa.sis/

• Audio

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Noun

oasis m (plural oases)

1. oasis (spring of fresh water in a desert)
2. oasis (quiet, peaceful place)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

Doublet of oase and wahah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈa.sis/
• Rhymes: -sis, -is

Noun

oasis (plural oasis-oasis, first-person possessive oasisku, second-person possessive oasismu, third-person possessive oasisnya)

1. oasis

   Synonym: wahah

Synonyms

• (land surrounded by water): nusa, pulau

Further reading

• “oasis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoɑ̯siːs/

Noun

oasis

1. locative singular of oassi

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin Oasis (“name of various oases”), from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”),

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈasis/ [oˈa.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: o‧a‧sis

Noun

oasis m (plural oasis)

1. oasis

Further reading

• “oasis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oasis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧a‧sis
• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈasis/, [ʔoˈa.sɪs]

Noun

oasis

1. oasis