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10 Language-to-English Dictionarieségratignure
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /e.ɡʁa.ti.ɡyʁ/
"Il a une petite égratignure sur le bras."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A thin, scrawny person or animal, or a scratch.
"He looked like a ragged scrat after wandering through the thorny brush."
- 1
To scratch or scrawl hurriedly.
"She began to scrat notes onto the margin of her manuscript."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived as a regional or dialectal variant of 'scratch' or 'scrat', originating from Middle English roots related to Old Norse 'skrattadr' or Germanic terms denoting a thin, lean person or animal, and popularized in modern culture by the fictional saber-toothed squirrel character from the Ice Age film franchise.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Scrat" is said worldwide
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égratignure
Transliteration: /e.ɡʁa.ti.ɡyʁ/
"Il a une petite égratignure sur le bras."
Kratzer
Transliteration: /ˈkʁat͡sɐ/
"Das Auto hat einen kleinen Kratzer."
graffio
Transliteration: /ˈɡraf.fjo/
"Ha un piccolo graffio sulla mano."
arañazo
Transliteration: /a.ɾaˈɲa.θo/
"El gato le dejó un pequeño arañazo."
arranhão
Transliteration: /a.ʁɐˈɲɐ̃w̃/
"Foi apenas um arranhão leve."
खرच
Transliteration: kharach
Script: खर्च
"दीवार पर एक हल्की सी खरोंच है।"
划痕
Transliteration: huáhén
"桌子表面有一道细小的划痕。"
긁힌 자국
Transliteration: geulkhin jaguk
"유리에 작은 긁힌 자국이 생겼다."
引っかき傷
Transliteration: hikkakikizu
"腕に小さな引っかき傷がある。"
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