sonar

From SONAR, acronym of sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/

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sonar (countable and uncountable, plural sonars)

1. (nautical) echolocation
2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

• SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

• Doppler sonar

• radar
• lidar
• sodar

• sonar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Rasŏn, arson, orans, roans, saron, sorna

Inherited from Old Catalan sonar, from Latin sonāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [soˈnaɾ]

sonar (first-person singular present sono, first-person singular preterite soní, past participle sonat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive) to sound, to make a sound
2. (intransitive) to ring, to buzz
3. (figurative, intransitive) to ring a bell

   Em sona la seva cara. ― His face looks familiar.

• resonar
• so

Borrowed from English sonar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈnar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [soˈnar]

sonar m (uncountable)

1. sonar

• “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sonar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from English sonar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.nɑr/

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• Hyphenation: so‧nar
• Rhymes: -oːnɑr

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

• grondsonar
• sonarapparaat
• sonarapparatuur
• sonarhut
• sonarsignaal
• sonarsysteem
• sonarvis

Borrowed from English sonar.

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sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

• → Romanian: sonar
• → Turkish: sonar

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

sonar

1. indefinite genitive singular of sonur

From Esperanto soni (“to sound”), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin sonō (“to make a noise”).

sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

1. to ring

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sonar

1. to call (to name or refer to)

   Synonyms: cridar, apelar

sonar

1. genitive singular of sonr

Borrowed from English sonar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.nar/
• Rhymes: -ɔnar
• Syllabification: so‧nar

sonar m inan

1. (nautical) sonar (device for locating objects underwater)

   Synonym: asdic

• sonar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English sonar.

• Hyphenation: so‧nar

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

Borrowed from French sonar.

sonar n (plural sonare)

1. sonar

Borrowed from English sonar.

• IPA^(key): /sǒnaːr/
• Hyphenation: so‧nar

sònār m (Cyrillic spelling со̀на̄р)

1. sonar

• IPA^(key): /soˈnaɾ/ [soˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧nar

Inherited from Old Spanish sonar, inherited from Latin sonāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound, resound”).

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

1. (intransitive) to sound, to ring
   • 2014, “Suena La Alarma”, performed by Daddy Yankee:

     Suena la alarma, que mi nena esta robándose el show / Oh síguelo

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2. (intransitive) to sound (appear)

   Suena como que ya te has decidido.

   It sounds like your mind is made up.

   Suena como si no tuviéramos otra opción.

   It sounds like we don't have any other choice.

3. (figuratively, intransitive) to ring a bell, to be familiar

   Me suena el nombre, pero no lo ubico.

   His name rings a bell but I can't place him.

4. (transitive) to make sound, to play

   Synonym: tocar

   sonar la bocina ― to sound the horn

5. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose

   Despues de estornudar, me soné la nariz.

   After I sneezed, I blew my nose.

Borrowed from English sonar.

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

• sónar

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

sonar c

1. (nautical) sonar (echolocation)
2. (nautical) a sonar (device)

sonar

1. present indicative of sona

• sonar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sonar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sonar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Arons, nosar, sorna

From Latin sonāre, present active infinitive of sonō. Compare Italian suonare.

sonar

1. (transitive) to play, sound

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.