Hase

See also: hase

English

Etymology 1

From the German surname, from Middle High German and Middle Low German hase (“hare”), from Old High German haso.

Proper noun

Hase

1. A surname.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hase”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138.

Etymology 2

From German Hase, from earlier Haase. Not from the noun meaning “hare”, but related to its ultimate source: from Old Saxon hasu, from Proto-West Germanic *hasu (“grey”).

Proper noun

Hase

1. A river in Lower Saxony, Germany

Anagrams

• HEAs, shea, Seah, Eash, Ashe, HAES, seah, Shea, æsh, ashe

German

Alternative forms

• Haase

Etymology 1

From Middle High German has(e), from Old High German haso, from Proto-West Germanic *hasō, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from an Indo-European root originally meaning grey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːzə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːsɛ/ (Austria)
• Rhymes: -aːzə

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Noun

Hase m (weak, genitive Hasen, plural Hasen, diminutive Häschen n or Häslein n, feminine (for the animal) Häsin)

1. hare (animal of either sex)
2. (astronomy) the constellation Lepus

Usage notes

• While English speakers tend to mistakenly use the word “rabbit” for hares, the German tendency is the reverse: Hase is sometimes mistakenly used instead of Kaninchen, and it tends to be the preferred word whenever the distinction is irrelevant or impossible to tell (for example, a bunny girl is a Häschen in German and the Easter bunny is called Osterhase).

Declension

Declension of Hase [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Hase	die	Hasen
genitive	eines	des	Hasen	der	Hasen
dative	einem	dem	Hasen	den	Hasen
accusative	einen	den	Hasen	die	Hasen

Hypernyms

• Hasenartiger (Hasenartige)
• Hasentier (Hasentiere)

Hyponyms

• Hasenbock
• Häsin
• Rammler

Derived terms

• alter Hase
• Buschmannhase
• da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer
• Dachhase
• Dreihasenfenster
• Echte Hasen
• Hasenfuß
• Hasenpanier
• Hasenpfeffer
• Hasenpfote
• Hasenscharte
• Osterhase

 

Descendants

• → French: hase

See also

• Kaninchen
• Karnickel

Etymology 2

German and Jewish surname, from the noun meaning "hare" (see Etymology 1 above). Occasionally calqued from Lower Sorbian Zajac, of the same meaning.

Proper noun

Hase m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hases or (with an article) Hase, feminine genitive Hase, plural Hases or Hase)

1. a surname

Derived terms

• mein Name ist Hase

Etymology 3

From the same root as the animal name, meaning “grey”, an adjective Proto-West Germanic *hasu (“grey”).

Proper noun

die Hase f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Hase)

1. A river in northwestern Germany.

Further reading

• “Hase” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hase” in Duden online
• “Hase” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Hase”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• Hase on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Japanese

Romanization

Hase

1. Rōmaji transcription of はせ