# sonar
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoʊ.nɑːɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

sonar (countable and uncountable, plural sonars)
* (nautical) echolocation
* (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

#### Synonyms

* SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

#### Derived terms

* active sonar
* Doppler sonar

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: sonar
* → Dutch: sonar
* → French: sonar
** → Romanian: sonar
** → Turkish: sonar
* → German: Sonar
* → Italian: sonar
* → Polish: sonar
* → Portuguese: sonar
* → Serbo-Croatian: sonar
* → Spanish: sonar
* → Thai: โซนาร์ (soo-nâa)

#### See also

* radar
* lidar
* sodar

### Further reading

* sonar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Arons, saron, orans, sorna, Sanor, Rasŏn, roans, arson, Naros, Rason

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan sonar, from Latin sonāre.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [suˈna]
* IPA: (Balearic) [soˈna]
* IPA: (Valencia) [soˈnaɾ]

#### Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sono, first-person singular preterite soní, past participle sonat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* (intransitive) to sound, to make a sound
* (intransitive) to ring, to buzz
* (figurative, intransitive) to ring a bell
    Em sona la seva cara. ― His face looks familiar.

##### Related terms

* resonar
* so

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [suˈnar]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [soˈnar]

#### Noun

sonar m (uncountable)
* sonar

### References

* “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sonar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoː.nɑr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: so‧nar
* Rhymes: -oːnɑr

### Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)
* sonar

#### Derived terms

* grondsonar
* sonarapparaat
* sonarapparatuur
* sonarhut
* sonarsignaal
* sonarsysteem
* sonarvis

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)
* sonar

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: sonar
* → Turkish: sonar

### Further reading

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

## Icelandic
### Noun

sonar
* indefinite genitive singular of sonur

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Verb

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

#### Conjugation
## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Verb

sonar
* to call (to name or refer to)
    Synonyms: cridar, apelar

#### Conjugation
## Old Norse
### Noun

sonar
* genitive singular of sonr

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔ.nar/
* Rhymes: -ɔnar
* Syllabification: so‧nar

### Noun

sonar m inan
* (nautical) sonar (device for locating objects underwater)
    Synonym: asdic

#### Declension
### Further reading

* sonar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈnaʁ/ [soˈnah]
* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈnaʁ/ [soˈnah]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /soˈnaɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /soˈnaʁ/ [soˈnaχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /soˈnaɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɔˈnaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sɔˈnaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /sɔˈna.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: so‧nar

### Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)
* (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sonar.

### Noun

sonar n (plural sonare)
* sonar

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sǒnaːr/
* Hyphenation: so‧nar

### Noun

sònār m (Cyrillic spelling со̀на̄р)
* sonar

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soˈnaɾ/ [soˈnaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: so‧nar

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)
* (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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (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.
* (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.
* (transitive) to make sound, to play
    Synonym: tocar
    sonar la bocina ― to sound the horn
* (transitive, reflexive) to blow one's nose
    Despues de estornudar, me soné la nariz.After I sneezed, I blew my nose.

##### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

##### Derived terms

* como suena
* hacer sonar
* sonadero
* sonador
* sonante
* sonar la flauta

##### Related terms

* resonar
* son
* sonaja
* sonido
* sonoro

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

#### Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)
* sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

##### Alternative forms

* sónar

### Further reading

* “sonar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

sonar c
* (nautical) sonar (echolocation)
* (nautical) a sonar (device)

#### Declension
### Verb

sonar
* present indicative of sona

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Arons, nosar, sorna

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin sonāre. Compare Italian suonare.

### Verb

sonar
* (transitive) to play, sound

#### Conjugation

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