# mascara
## English
### Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

### Pronunciation

* (General Australian) IPA: /ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/, /məsˈkɑːɹə/
* (UK) IPA: /məˈskɑːɹə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˌmæsˈkæɹə/

### Noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)
* A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.
    apply mascara
    put on mascara
    mascara runs
    mascara smudges
** 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.
** 2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

#### Translations
### Verb

mascara (third-person singular simple present mascaras, present participle mascaraing, simple past and past participle mascaraed)
* To apply mascara to the eyelashes

#### Related terms

* mask

### Anagrams

* Camaras, maracas, marasca

## Catalan
### Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *mask- (“black, stained”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [məsˈka.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [masˈka.ɾa]

### Noun

mascara f (plural mascares)
* soot
* stain
* sooty mold
    Synonym: fumagina

#### Derived terms

* emmascarar
* mascarell

### Further reading

* “mascara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Italian maschera (“mask”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧ra

### Noun

mascara f or m (plural mascara's, diminutive mascaraatje n)
* mascara

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mascara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas.ka.ʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mascara m (plural mascaras)
* mascara

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Verb

mascara
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar

## Italian
### Etymology

See maschera

### Noun

mascara m (invariable)
* mascara
    Synonym: rimmel

### Anagrams

* marasca

## Portuguese
### Verb

mascara
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar
* inflection of mascarar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مسقره (maskara).

### Noun

mascara f (plural mascarale)
* derision, ridicule, mocking
* (dated) clown

#### Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Verb

mascara
* first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mascar

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* maskara

### Noun

mascara c
* mascara

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | mascara | mascaras |
| singular | definite | mascaran | mascarans |
| plural | indefinite | mascaror | mascarors |
| plural | definite | mascarorna | mascarornas |

#### See also

* smink (“makeup”)
* sminka (“put on makeup”)

### References

* mascara in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mascara in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)