hare

See also: haré and Hare

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
• (General American)
• IPA^(key): /hɛɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophone: hair

Etymology 1

A European hare

English Wikipedia has an article on:

hare

Wikipedia

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-.

Cognates

See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).

Noun

hare (countable and uncountable, plural hares)

2. (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.
3. (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.

4. (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun "hare"

• 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

• Sranan Tongo: hei

Translations

animal

Abkhaz: ажьа (aža) Afrikaans: haas (af) Ainu: エペッケ (epetke) Albanian: lepur (sq) m Amis: kudiwis Arabic: قُوَاع m (quwāʕ), أَرْنَب بَرِّيَّة f (ʔarnab barriyya), أَرْنَب f (ʔarnab) Egyptian Arabic: ارنب m (arnab) Armenian: նապաստակ (hy) (napastak) Aromanian: ljepure (roa-rup) m Assamese: শহা (xoha), শহাপহু (xohapohu) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ m (arnḇā), ܐܲܪܢܲܒ݂ܬܵܐ f (arnaḇtā) Asturian: llebre (ast) f Avar: гӏанкӏ (ʻankʼ) Azerbaijani: dovşan (az) Bashkir: ҡуян (quyan) Basque: erbi (eu) Bavarian: Hås Belarusian: за́яц m (zájac) Bengali: খরগোশ (bn) (khorgōś) Bhojpuri: खरगोश (kharᵊgōś) Breton: gad (br) f Bulgarian: за́ек (bg) m (záek) Burmese: ယုန် (my) (yun) (rabbit or hare) Buryat: туулай (tuulaj) Catalan: llebre (ca) f Chechen: пхьагал (pḥʳagal) Chinese: Cantonese: 野兔 (je5 tou3) Dungan: етўзы (i͡ətwzɨ), тўзы (twzɨ), тўр (twr) Mandarin: 野兔 (zh) (yětù), 兔子 (zh) (tùzi) Chuvash: мулкач (mulk̬ač), куян (kujan) Cornish: skovarnek m Czech: zajíc (cs) m, zaječice f Dalmatian: lipro m Danish: hare (da) c Dutch: haas (nl) m Elfdalian: eri m Egyptian: (wn), (sẖꜥt) Erzya: нумоло (numolo) Esperanto: leporo (eo) Estonian: jänes (et) Even: мунрукан (munrukan) Evenki: муннукан (munnukan) Ewe: fɔmizi n Faroese: hara Finnish: jänis (fi) French: lièvre (fr) m, hase (fr) f Friulian: jeur m, gneur Galician: lebre (gl) f, matacán m Georgian: კურდღელი (ka) (ḳurdɣeli) German: Hase (de) m Greek: λαγός (el) m (lagós) Ancient: λαγώς m (lagṓs), λαγός m (lagós), λαγωός m (lagōós), δασύπους m (dasúpous) Greenlandic: ukaleq Hausa: zomo (ha) Hebrew: אַרְנָב (he) m (arnáv), אַרְנֶבֶת (he) f (arnévet) Hindi: खरगोश (hi) m (khargoś), खरहा (hi) m (kharhā) Hungarian: vadnyúl (hu) (literally “wild hare”), nyúlféle (literally “Leporidae”), nyúl (hu) (literally “hare and/or rabbit”), mezei nyúl (literally “European hare”), kinigli (literally "cony") Icelandic: héri (is) m Ido: leporo (io) Indonesian: terwelu (id), tegalan Ingrian: jänis Irish: giorria m Italian: lepre (it) f Japanese: 野兎 (ja) (のうさぎ, nousagi), 野ウサギ (nousagi), 兎 (ja) (うさぎ, usagi), ウサギ (ja) (usagi) Kalmyk: туула (tuula) Karachay-Balkar: къоян (qoyan) Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can Kashubian: zajc m Kazakh: қоян (qoän) Khakas: хозан (xozan) Khitan: 𘬦𘰎𘯺 (*? lí a) Khmer: ទន្សាយស្លឹក (tŭənsaay slək) Korean: 산토끼 (ko) (santokki), 토끼 (ko) (tokki) Kumyk: къоян (qoyan), тавшан (tawşan) Kyrgyz: коён (ky) (koyon) Ladin: liever m Lao: ກະຕ່າຍ (lo) (ka tāi) Latgalian: začs m Latin: lepus (la) m Latvian: zaķis m Lithuanian: kiškis (lt) m, zuikis m (dialectal) Luxembourgish: Hues (lb) m Macedonian: зајак (mk) m (zajak) Malay: kelinci, terwelu Maltese: liebru m Manx: mwaagh m Maori: hea Marathi: ससा (sasā) Mari: Eastern Mari: мераҥ (meraŋ) Western Mari: морен (moren) Mauritian Creole: lyev Mi'kmaq: apli'gmuj Mòcheno: hos m Mon: ဗတာဲ (mnw) Mongolian: туулай (mn) (tuulaj) Montagnais: uapush Nahuatl: cihtli (nah) Navajo: gahtsoh Neapolitan: lepre f Ngazidja Comorian: sungurwa class 5/6 Nogai: тавшан (tavşan) Norman: lièvre m (Jersey) Northern Sami: njoammil Northwestern Ojibwa: bagwaji-waabooz Norwegian: Bokmål: hare (no) m Nynorsk: hare m Occitan: lèbre (oc) f Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: заѩць m (zajęcĭ) Old East Slavic: заѩць m (zajęcĭ) Old English: hara m Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (tabïšɣan) Ossetian: Digor: тӕрхъос (tærqos) Iron: тӕрхъус (tærqus) Ottoman Turkish: طاوشان (tavşan), ارنب (erneb) Pali: sasa m Pashto: سوی (ps) (soai) Persian: خرگوش (fa) (xarguš) Middle Persian: [Term?] (/⁠sahōg⁠/) Piedmontese: levr f Plautdietsch: Hos m Polish: zając (pl) m Portuguese: lebrão (pt) m, lebre (pt) f Punjabi: ਸਹਿਆ (pa) m (sahiā) Romani: baro-shoshoy m, bari-shoshni f Romanian: iepure-de-câmp m Romansch: lieur m Russian: за́яц (ru) m (zájac), зайчи́ха (ru) f (zajčíxa) Sardinian: lèpere m, lèpuri m, brincis m, peldelana f Scots: bawd, mawkin Scottish Gaelic: geàrr f, maigheach f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зец m Roman: zec (sh) m Seychellois Creole: lyev Shor: қозан Sicilian: lèpuru m Silesian: hazŏk m Sinhalese: හාවෝ (hāwō) Slovak: zajac (sk) m Slovene: zajec (sl) m, zajklja (sl) f Sorbian: Lower: wuchac m Upper: zajac (hsb) m Southern Altai: койон (koyon) Southern Sami: njåemele Spanish: liebre (es) f Svan: ра̇ꚓв (räč̣v) Swahili: sungura (sw) Swedish: hare (sv) c Tagalog: liyebre (tl) Tajik: харгӯш (tg) (xargüš) Tarifit: ayarziz m Tatar: куян (tt) (quyan) Thai: กระต่าย (th) (grà-dtàai), กระต่ายป่า (th) (grà-dtàai-bpàa) Tibetan: ཡོས (yos), རི་བོང (ri bong) Tocharian B: ṣaṣe Tswana: mmutla Turkish: tavşan (tr) Turkmen: towşan Tuvan: кодан (kodan) Udmurt: кеч (keć) Ukrainian: за́єць (uk) m (zájecʹ) Urdu: خرگوش m (xargoś), خرہا m (xarhā) Uyghur: توشقان (toshqan) Uzbek: quyon (uz), tovushqon (uz) Venetan: jévre m, liévore m Veps: jäniš Vietnamese: thỏ rừng Volapük: liev (vo) Võro: jänes Votic: jänez Walloon: live (wa) m, håze (wa) f Welsh: ysgyfarnog (cy) f, sgwarnog (cy) f West Frisian: hazze Wolof: lëg gi Yakut: куобах (kuobaq) Yiddish: האָז m (hoz) Zazaki: arwêş (diq)

Verb

hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)

1. (intransitive) To move swiftly.
   • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC‎:

     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

• rabbit
• race
• speed
• tear

See also

• form (hare's home)
• leveret (young hare)
• jackrabbit (type of hare)

Etymology 2

From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.

Alternative forms

• harr

Verb

hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)

1. (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

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

• hoar

Adjective

hare

1. (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).

   a hare old man

2. (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).

   a hare day

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• Ahre, Hera, RHAe, Rahe, Rhea, hear, hera, rhea

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch (de) hare.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Pronoun

hare

1. hers (that or those of her)

   Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.

   She wore my shirt and I wore hers.

Albanian

Alternative forms

• garé — Calabria

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Greek χαρά (chará, “joy”).

Noun

haré f (definite haréja)

1. 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

• “hare”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈɾe/ [haˈɾe]
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈɾe/ [ʔaˈɾe] (h-dropping)
• Hyphenation: ha‧re

Verb

haré (Basahan spelling ᜑᜍᜒ)

1. Misspelling of hari.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːrə/, [ˈhɑːɑ]

Noun

hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)

1. hare

Inflection

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hare	haren	harer	harerne
genitive	hares	harens	harers	harernes

Declension of hare

See also

• hare on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hare. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.rə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ha‧re
• Rhymes: -aːrə

Determiner

hare

1. non-attributive form of haar (English: hers)

   Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.

   Die auto is de hare. ― That car is hers.

   Dat huis is het hare. ― That house is hers.

   Dat is de/het hare. ― That is hers.

2. (archaic) inflected form of haar

Derived terms

• Hare Majesteit

Japanese

Romanization

hare

1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

Middle Dutch

Determiner

hāre

1. inflection of hāer:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hara; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri.

Alternative forms

• hara, haar, hayre, harre, hayr, are, here

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːr(ə)/

Noun

hare (plural hares)

2. A hare or its meat (lagomorph of the genus Lepus)
3. (rare) Someone who is easily scared or frightened.
4. (rare) A hare's skin or hide.

Descendants

• English: hare
• Scots: hare, hair
• Yola: haar

References

• “hāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-26.

Etymology 2

Determiner

hare

1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)

Pronoun

hare

1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hare

1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)

Etymology 4

Noun

hare

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 5

Determiner

hare

1. (chiefly West Midland and Kent) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hare

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. Compare with German Hase, Swedish hare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːrə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: harde

Noun

hare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harer, definite plural harene)

1. a hare

References

• “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

hare

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Alternative forms

• hårrå (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô. Akin to English hare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hɑːrə/
• Homophone: harde

Noun

hare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harar, definite plural harane)

1. a mountain hare, Lepus timidus
2. a hare, a small animal of the genus Lepus

Synonyms

• jase

Derived terms

• harepest
• harerug
• trollhare

References

• “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀳𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• हरे (Devanagari script)
• হরে (Bengali script)
• හරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဟရေ or ႁရေ (Burmese script)
• หเร or หะเร (Thai script)
• ᩉᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ຫເຣ or ຫະເຣ (Lao script)
• ហរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄦𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

hare

1. optative active singular of harati (“to take away”)

Rapa Nui

Te hare.

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale. Cognates include Hawaiian hale and Maori whare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.ɾe/
• Hyphenation: ha‧re

Noun

hare

1. house, home
2. family

Derived terms

• hare 'oka
• hare moa
• hare paeŋa

 

References

• 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, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 32

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.

Noun

hare (plural hares)

1. a hare, Lepus sp.
2. (archaic) the last sheaf or portion of grain harvested; the end of the harvest

   Synonyms: clyack, kirn, maiden

   • 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

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

hare

Wikipedia ^sv

en hare

Etymology

From Old Swedish hari, hæri, from Old Norse *hari, heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hare c

1. hare

Declension

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hare	hares
	definite	haren	harens
plural	indefinite	harar	harars
	definite	hararna	hararnas

Declension of hare

Derived terms

• harmynt (“harelipped”)
• hartass

Phrase

hare

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ha det" (in ha det or more generally).

References

• hare in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hare in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Hera

Tetum

Etymology

From *pare, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Compare Javanese pari.

Noun

hare

1. rice (unpicked); rice (plant)