hare
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /hɛɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: hair
Etymology 1
[edit]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)
- red rock hare
- 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.
- 2015–2021, qntm, “Introductory Antimemetics”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 21:
- Desperate, Kim hurls his phone overarm at the creature's forehead. It's a solid chunk of metal and it's a dead hit. Grey reels backwards and cracks his skull against the wall. By the time he recovers, Kim is out of sight, haring away down the left corridor, just echoing, fading footsteps on concrete.
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
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[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]Romanization
[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
[edit]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
[edit]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]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
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- enm:Hides
- enm:Lagomorphs
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