hare
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /hɛɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: hair
Etymology 1
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From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
Noun
[edit]hare (countable and uncountable, plural hares)
- (countable) Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
- (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
- 1958, Andre Norton, The Time Traders, Cleveland, Oh., New York, N.Y.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 79:
- Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.
- 2007, Jamie Oliver, Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 273:
- Hare is another delicious meat – it’s more ‘steaky’, darker and richer than rabbit.
- 2013, Anna Del Conte, Gastronomy of Italy, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 109:
- In Milan, jugged hare is flavoured with grated chocolate, which adds colour and depth to the sauce.
- (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
Derived terms
[edit]- Arctic hare
- arctic hare (Lepus arcticus)
- Belgian hare
- brown hare (Lepus europaeus)
- chief hare
- desert hare
- European hare (Lepus europaeus)
- first catch your hare
- hare and hounds
- harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- hare-brained
- harebrained
- hare-hearted
- hare kangaroo
- hare lip
- hare moon
- hare scramble
- hare-skin
- hare-wallaby
- hold with the hare and run with the hounds
- jack-hare
- mad as a March hare
- Manchurian hare
- March hare
- mountain hare (Lepus timidus etc.)
- Patagonian hare (Dolichotis patagonum)
- run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- scrub hare
- sea hare (Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea)
- snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)
- springhare (Pedetes capensis)
- start a fresh hare
- start a hare
- start a hare running
- varying hare
- whistling hare
- you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Descendants
[edit]- Sranan Tongo: hei
Translations
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Verb
[edit]hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
- (intransitive) To move swiftly.
- 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC[1]:
- But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- form (hare's home)
- leveret (young hare)
- jackrabbit (type of hare)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
- (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
- 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education:
- To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hare
- (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
- a hare old man
- (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
- a hare day
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Pronoun
[edit]hare
- hers (that or those of her)
- Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.
- She wore my shirt and I wore hers.
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely borrowed from Greek χαρά (chará, “joy”).
Noun
[edit]haré f (definite haréja)
- joy
- Synonym: gëzim
- 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 12–14:
- Cuur te dritta δeu me ɔpii / u sbuλúa je deiti / si garea cὺ deλ pyr siiɔ, […]
- [Kur, te drita, dheu me shpi / u zbulua je dejti / si garea që del për sysh]
- When, at dawn, the earth and the house / were uncovered, and the sea, / as joy that comes out of eyes, […]
Further reading
[edit]- “hare”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2] (in Albanian), 1980
Bikol Central
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]haré
- Misspelling of hari.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)
Inflection
[edit]See also
[edit]hare on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch hare. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]hare
- non-attributive form of haar (English: hers)
- (archaic) inflected form of haar
Derived terms
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[edit]hare
Middle Dutch
[edit]Determiner
[edit]hāre
- inflection of hāer:
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English hara; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare (plural hares)
- A hare or its meat (lagomorph of the genus Lepus)
- (rare) Someone who is easily scared or frightened.
- (rare) A hare's skin or hide.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “hāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-26.
Etymology 2
[edit]Determiner
[edit]hare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)
Pronoun
[edit]hare
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare
- Alternative form of her (“hair”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Determiner
[edit]hare
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. Compare with German Hase, Swedish hare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harer, definite plural harene)
- a hare
References
[edit]- “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô. Akin to English hare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harar, definite plural harane)
- a mountain hare, Lepus timidus
- a hare, a small animal of the genus Lepus
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali
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[edit]hare
Rapa Nui
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *fale. Cognates include Hawaiian hale and Maori whare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hare
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 16
- “hare”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN
- Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui[3], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 32
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.
Noun
[edit]hare (plural hares)
- a hare, Lepus sp.
- (archaic) the last sheaf or portion of grain harvested; the end of the harvest
- 1937, Mary MacLeod Banks, British Calendar of Customs: Scotland, page 82:
- When the ‘hare’ was cut the unmarried reapers ran with all speed home
- When the last sheaf was harvested, the unmarried reapers ran home as quickly as possible
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish hari, hæri, from Old Norse *hari, heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]hare c
Declension
[edit]Declension of hare | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hare | haren | harar | hararna |
Genitive | hares | harens | harars | hararnas |
Derived terms
[edit]Phrase
[edit]hare
- (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ha det" (in ha det or more generally).
References
[edit]- hare in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- hare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- hare in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
[edit]Tetum
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *pare, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Compare Javanese pari.
Noun
[edit]hare
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- enm:Hides
- enm:Lagomorphs
- enm:Mammals
- enm:Meats
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