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.
   • 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, 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, 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.

• 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoɑ̯siːs/

oasis

1. locative singular of oassi

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]
• 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.

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

oasis

1. oasis