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English

Etymology

Apheretic form ofescarp.Doublet ofescarp.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /skɑːp/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
(General American)IPA^(key): /skɑɹp/
Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)p

Noun

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scarp

scarp (pluralscarps)

The steep artificial slope below afort'sparapet.
(geology) A cliff at the edge of aplateau orridge caused byerosion or faulting; the steeper side of anescarpment.
- 2014,Paul Salopek,Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
  Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren easternscarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
(heraldry)Obsolete spelling ofscarpe, scrape.
- 1673, Matthew Carter,Honor Redivivus: Or, The Analysis of Honor and Armory, page211:
  [...] as in the seventh, which is Argent aScarp Azure.
- 1724, John Guillim,A Display of Heraldry, page38:
  He beareth Argent, aScarp, Azure.

Derived terms

Translations

artificial slope

cliff caused by erosion

Bulgarian:стръмен склон m(strǎmen sklon)
Finnish:jyrkänne (fi)
German:
Alemannic German:Flueh f
Hungarian:szakadásfal
Irish:scairp f
Polish:skarpa (pl) f
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish:قیا(kaya),یار(yar)

Verb

scarp (third-person singular simple presentscarps,present participlescarping,simple past and past participlescarped)

(earth science, geography, transitive) tocut,scrape,erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
toscarp the face of a ditch or a rock
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC:
  Fromscarped cliff and quarried stone
- 1867,Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, inMay-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC,page38:
  For thou, O Spring! canst renovate / All that high God did first create. /[…] / Sweep ruins from thescarped mountain, / Cleanse the torrent at the fountain,[…]

Anagrams

APCRs,Carps,RSPCA,carps,craps,parcs,pracs,scrap

Old Dutch

Etymology

FromProto-West Germanic*skarp, fromProto-Germanic*skarpaz.

Adjective

scarp

sharp

Inflection

Declension ofscarp (a-stem)

strong declension
case	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural

nominative	scarp	scarp	scarp	scarpa,scarpe
accusative	scarpan,scarpen	scarpa	scarp	scarpa,scarpe
genitive	scarpes	scarpero	scarpes	scarpero
dative	scarpin,scarpemo	scarpero	scarpin,scarpemo	scarpon
weak declension
case	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural

nominative	scarpo	scarpa	scarpa	scarpon
accusative	scarpon	scarpon	scarpa	scarpon
genitive	scarpin	scarpon	scarpin	scarpono
dative	scarpin	scarpon	scarpin	scarpon

Descendants

Middle Dutch:scharp
- Dutch:scherp
  - Afrikaans:skerp
  - Berbice Creole Dutch:skarpu
  - Negerhollands:skerp
  - Skepi Creole Dutch:skarp
  - → Papiamentu:skèrpi,skerpi,scherpi
  - →? Sranan Tongo:srapu
    - → Saramaccan:saápu
- Limburgish:sjèrp

References

“skarp”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

Romanian

Noun

scarp m (pluralscarpi)

obsolete form ofscarpă

Declension

	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
	singular			plural
nominative-accusative	scarp	scarpul		scarpi	scarpii
genitive-dative	scarp	scarpului		scarpi	scarpilor
vocative	scarpule			scarpilor

References

scarp in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

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