oasis

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).

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs, -eɪsəs

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

1. A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.

   Synonyms: island, refuge

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

   • 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, Michael Welland, “Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports”, in The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders‎, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.
3. (figuratively) A place or situation of fruitfulness or abundance separated from surrounding barrenness or scarcity.
   • 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:

     [T]here 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.

   • 1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

     I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to. But for these two oases, I have lived all these years in an emotional void.

• oasal
• oasitic

• Osias, ossia

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.a.zis/

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oasis m or f (plural oasis)

1. oasis

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

• osais

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ˈa.sis/

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oasis m (plural oases)

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

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

Doublet of oase and wahah.

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

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

1. oasis

   Synonym: wahah

• (land surrounded by water): nusa, pulau

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoɑ̯siːs/

oasis

1. locative singular of oassi

Borrowed 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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• IPA^(key): /oˈasis/ [oˈa.sis]

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• Rhymes: -asis
• Syllabification: o‧a‧sis

oasis m (plural oasis)

1. oasis

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

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

oasis (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜏᜐᜒᜐ᜔)

1. oasis

• “oasis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 423