pare

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pare"

English

Etymology

From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛɹ/
• Homophones: pair, pear, pere
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Verb

pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)

1. (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.

   Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.

2. (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.

   Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.

   • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎^[5]:

     Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”

   • 1960 April, “The European Summer Timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 223:

     From May 29 another 10 min. are being pared from the southbound journey, and the time over the 504.4 miles from Paris to Hendaye will come down to 6 hr. 58 min., an average of 72.4 m.p.h. with two intermediate stops.

3. To trim the hoof of a horse.
4. (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.

Synonyms

(remove skin): peel, skin

Derived terms

• cheeseparing
• pare away
• pare down
• pare off
• parer
• pare to the bone
• paring
• paring knife

 

Translations

To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a knife

• Bulgarian: беля (bg) (belja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 削皮 (zh) (xiāopí), 去皮 (zh) (qùpĺ)

• Czech: oříznout pf, seříznout pf, okrájet pf
• Dutch: pellen (nl), schillen (nl), snoeien (nl), (af)knippen
• Finnish: kuoria (fi)
• French: éplucher (fr), peler (fr)
• German: schälen (de), pellen (de), abschälen (de), abschneiden (de), abhobeln (de)
• Ido: rekortar (io)
• Russian: очищать (ru) (očiščatʹ)
• Slovene: lupiti, olupiti (sl), obrezati
• Spanish: pelar (es), mondar (es)
• Swedish: skala (sv)
• Yiddish: שאָבן (shobn), שנײַדן (shnaydn), אָפּשיילן (opsheyln), אַרומשנײַדן (arumshnaydn)

To reduce or trim something (as if) by cutting off

• Bulgarian: изрязвам (bg) (izrjazvam), подрязвам (bg) (podrjazvam)
• Czech: okrájet pf, ořezat pf
• Dutch: pellen (nl), schillen (nl), beknibbelen (nl), besnoeien (nl)
• Finnish: leikata (fi), supistaa (fi)
• French: rogner (fr)
• German: beschneiden (de), zurückschneiden (de), trimmen (de), stutzen (de), zurechtstutzen (de), kappen (de)
• Ido: rekortar (io)
• Russian: уре́зать (ru) (urézatʹ)
• Swedish: skala ned, göra avkall, minska (sv)

trim a hoof

• Swedish: verka (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} smiot
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 바르다 (ko) (bareuda)

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Etymology 1

Singularized plural of Proto-Albanian *par continuing Proto-Albanian *para. See Lithuanian periù~perti.

Noun

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

1. scale (of fish)

   Synonym: luspë

Derived terms

• lule pare (“horsetail”)

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para).

Noun

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

1. (chiefly colloquial, Gheg) money

Declension

Declension of pare

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pare	parja	pare	paret
accusative		paren
dative	pareje	pares	pareve	pareve
ablative			paresh

Further reading

• “pare”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[6] (in Albanian), 1980
• “pare”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “pare”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 351

Asturian

Verb

pare

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpa.ɾe]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾe

Noun

pare m (plural pares)

1. father

Derived terms

• cappare
• Pare de Nadal

Further reading

• “pare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Coastal Konjo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Noun

pare

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

pare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of paren

Anagrams

• rape

Esperanto

Etymology

From paro +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/
• Rhymes: -are

Adverb

pare

1. pairwise

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: parent, pares

Verb

pare

1. inflection of parer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• âpre, râpe, râpé

Galician

Verb

pare

1. inflection of parir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦥꦫꦺ (paré). Doublet of paria and pěria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ré
• Rhymes: -re, -e

Noun

paré

1. bitter gourd

Synonyms

• paria
• paré

Further reading

• “pare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Verb

pare

1. present of parer
2. imperative of parer

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pà‧re

Etymology 1

Noun

pare

1. plural of para

Etymology 2

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular present indicative of parere

Anagrams

• apre, arpe, pera, rape

Javanese

Romanization

pare

1. Alternative spelling of paré. Romanization of ꦥꦫꦺ

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaːre]

Noun

pare

1. rice (plant)

See also

• kadodo (“cooked rice”)
• wiha (“uncooked rice”)

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “pare”, in Lamboya word list‎^[7], Leiden: LexiRumah

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.reː/, [ˈpäːreː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/, [ˈpäːre]

Verb

pārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

Makasar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/, [ˈpʰa.rɛ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

pare (Lontara spelling ᨄᨑᨙ)

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

   Synonym: ase

Derived terms

• appare-pare

 

Maore Comorian

Noun

pare class 5 (plural mavare class 6)

1. road

References

• “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Oceanic *pale₂ (cognate with Hawaiian pale (“headdress, cover”), Samoan pale and Tongan pale (both “wreath”))

Noun

pare

1. headband, wreath

Etymology 2

From Proto-Oceanic *pale₁ (cognate with Hawaiian pale)

Verb

pare

1. to ward off, to fend

Noun

pare

1. defence, protection

Related terms

• parepare
• papare

Further reading

• “pare” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Ngazidja Comorian

Noun

pare class 5 (plural mapvare class 6)

1. road

References

• “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːˈɾɛ/

Noun

pare m

1. money

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəria (“bitter melon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.re/
• Rhymes: -re
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

pare

1. bitter gourd, bitter melon

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦥꦫꦺ (paré) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: pare

Further reading

• "pare" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀧𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• परे (Devanagari script)
• পরে (Bengali script)
• පරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ပရေ (Burmese script)
• ปเร or ปะเร (Thai script)
• ᨷᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ປເຣ or ປະເຣ (Lao script)
• បរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

pare

1. inflection of para (“other”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine nominative/accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Portuguese

Brazilian stop sign

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɾɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Verb

pare

1. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular present indicative of părea (“to seem”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Adjective

pare

1. feminine/neuter indefinite plural of par (“even”)

Romansch

Noun

pare f (plural pares)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of paraid (“(internal) wall; rock face”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

Noun

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

1. money

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpa.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧re

Etymology 1

Chilean stop sign

Noun

pare m (plural pares)

1. (Latin America) stop sign

Verb

pare

1. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Verb

pare

1. inflection of parir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pare”, 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

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pre
• par

Etymology 1

Clipping of kumpare, kompadre.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧re

Noun

pare (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

1. buddy; close male friend

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan

   Coordinate term: mare

2. (informal) Term of address to a male stranger

Derived terms

• erap
• repa

 

Related terms

• Erap

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish padre.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾeʔ/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɾeʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧re

Noun

parè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

1. (religion, archaic) Alternative spelling of pari

Further reading

• “pare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• pera

Toraja-Sa'dan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Noun

pare

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pāre, para, “a part, piece; a single entire thing, a single article; money, coin”), from Persian پاره (pâre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːˈɾe/
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

pare (definite accusative pareyi, plural pareler)

1. (dated) A piece, part of a whole.

   Synonyms: parça, kısım, bölük, bölüm

2. (dated) A single unit, one piece or copy of a thing.

   Synonyms: tane, adet

   • 2023 April 22, 21 pare top atışıyla halkı selamlayacak‎^[8], İstanbul: Aydınlık:

     Sarayburnu'nda halkın ziyaretine açılan Türkiye'nin en büyük savaş gemisi TCG Anadolu'nun, 23 Nisan saat 12.00'de İstanbul Boğazı'ndan geçiş yaparak 21 pare top atışı ve çimariva ile halkı selamlayacağı duyuruldu.

     It was announced that TCG Anadolu, Turkey's largest warship, which was opened to public visit in Sarayburnu, will salute the public with a 21-piece gun salute and çimariva while passing through the Bosphorus at 12:00 on April 23rd.

3. Alternative form of para

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	pare
Definite accusative	pareyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pare	pareler
Definite accusative	pareyi	pareleri
Dative	pareye	parelere
Locative	parede	parelerde
Ablative	pareden	parelerden
Genitive	parenin	parelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular parem parelerim 2nd singular paren parelerin 3rd singular paresi pareleri 1st plural paremiz parelerimiz 2nd plural pareniz pareleriniz 3rd plural pareleri pareleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular paremi parelerimi 2nd singular pareni parelerini 3rd singular paresini parelerini 1st plural paremizi parelerimizi 2nd plural parenizi parelerinizi 3rd plural parelerini parelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular pareme parelerime 2nd singular parene parelerine 3rd singular paresine parelerine 1st plural paremize parelerimize 2nd plural parenize parelerinize 3rd plural parelerine parelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular paremde parelerimde 2nd singular parende parelerinde 3rd singular paresinde parelerinde 1st plural paremizde parelerimizde 2nd plural parenizde parelerinizde 3rd plural parelerinde parelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular paremden parelerimden 2nd singular parenden parelerinden 3rd singular paresinden parelerinden 1st plural paremizden parelerimizden 2nd plural parenizden parelerinizden 3rd plural parelerinden parelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular paremin parelerimin 2nd singular parenin parelerinin 3rd singular paresinin parelerinin 1st plural paremizin parelerimizin 2nd plural parenizin parelerinizin 3rd plural parelerinin parelerinin

Derived terms

• ciğerpare
• palaspare
• pare pare
• şekerpare
• varakpare
• yekpare

 

Related terms

• çalpara
• paralamak
• paramparça
• parça

 

Further reading

• “pare”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pare”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3778

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

Noun

pare m (plural pari)

1. father

See also

• mare