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avare

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See also: avarè and Avaré

Esperanto

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Adverb

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avare

  1. covetously

French

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Etymology

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From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.vaʁ/
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Adjective

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avare (plural avares)

  1. stingy, skinflint

Noun

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avare m or f by sense (plural avares)

  1. scrooge, miser

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈva.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧và‧re

Adjective

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avare f pl

  1. feminine plural of avaro (mean, stingy)

Noun

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avare

  1. plural of avara (female miser)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈa.va.re/
  • Rhymes: -avare
  • Hyphenation: à‧va‧re

Adjective

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avare

  1. feminine plural of avaro (Avar)

Noun

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avare

  1. plural of avara (female Avar)

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From avārus (avaricious, covetous, greedy), from aveō (wish, desire, long for, crave).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

  1. greedily, avariciously, covetously
    Synonyms: avāriter, avidē, aviditer
  2. stingily
    Synonym: avāriter
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References

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  • avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • avare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French avare.

Noun

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avare m (plural avares)

  1. (Jersey) miser

Synonyms

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Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آواره (exiled; vagrant; homeless; wretched; idle), from Persian آواره (âvâre).

Adjective

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avare

  1. vagabond, vagrant, hobo
    Synonyms: başıboş, aylak, işsiz güçsüz

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آواره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 233
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • "avare" - in kelimeler.gen.tr

Yola

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Adverb

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avare

  1. Alternative form of avar
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:
      az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.
      for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:
      Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
      Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23