yare

See also: Yare and y'are

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

Alternative forms

yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɛː/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /jɛɹ/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /jeːɹ/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /jeː/
(New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjeə/
(New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjiə/
(Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjɜː(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Homophones: yair, year (cheer–chair merger)

Adjective

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

(archaic) Ready; prepared.
(UK dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
  […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.
Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
(nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
- c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry
  The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Derived terms

yarely

Translations

ready, prepared

Russian: гото́вый (ru) m (gotóvyj), подгото́вленный (ru) m (podgotóvlennyj)

Adverb

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

(archaic) Yarely.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

Etymology 2

Noun

yare

Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

aery, Ayre, ayre, Reay, Eary, year, Raye, Ayer, Arey, eyra

Japanese

Romanization

yare

Rōmaji transcription of やれ

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈɾe/ [jɐˈɾɛ]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: ya‧re

Pronoun

yaré (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)

Alternative form of yari

Anagrams

-erya

Ternate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈja.ɾe]

Verb

yare

(transitive) to scatter

Conjugation

Conjugation of *yare*
		singular	plural
		singular	inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toyare	foyare	miyare
2nd person		noyare	niyare
3rd person	masculine	oyare	iyare yoyare (archaic)
	feminine	moyare
	neuter	iyare

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

yāre

Etymology

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Noun

yare ?

gravel