hare
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /hɛɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: hair
Etymology 1
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)
- (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
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
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Verb
hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
- (intransitive) To move swiftly.
- 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
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
Verb
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
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
Adjective
hare
References
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Pronoun
hare
- hers (that or those of her)
- Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.
- She wore my shirt and I wore hers.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
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, […]
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Pronunciation
Verb
haré (Basahan spelling ᜑᜍᜒ)
- Misspelling of hari.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)
Inflection
Declension of hare
See also
hare on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hare. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hare (personal plural haren)
- non-attributive form of haar; hers
Declension
| subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
| 1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
| 2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
| 2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u, zich7 | uwer, uws |
| 3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
| 3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
| 3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
| plural | |||||||||
| 1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
| 2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
| 2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u, zich7 | uwer, uws |
| 3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
| 1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people"). |
7) Zich is preferred if the reflexive pronoun immediately follows the subject pronoun u, e.g. Meldt u zich aan! 'Log in!', and if the subject pronoun u is used with a verb form that is identical with the third person singular but different from the informal second person singular, e.g. U heeft zich aangemeld. 'You have logged in.' Only u can be used in an imperative if the subject pronoun is not overt, e.g. Meld u aan! 'Log in!', where u is the reflexive pronoun. Otherwise, both u and zich are equally possible, e.g. U meldt u/zich aan. 'You log in.' | ||||||||
Determiner
hare
Derived terms
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Romanization
hare
Determiner
hāre
- inflection of hāer:
Etymology 1
From Old English hara; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
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
References
- “hāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-26.
Etymology 2
Determiner
hare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)
Pronoun
hare
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 3
Pronoun
hare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)
Etymology 4
Noun
hare
- Alternative form of her (“hair”)
Etymology 5
Determiner
hare
Etymology
From Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. Compare with German Hase, Swedish hare.
Pronunciation
Noun
hare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harer, definite plural harene)
- a hare
References
- “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô. Akin to English hare.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Derived terms
References
- “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *fale. Cognates include Hawaiian hale and Maori whare.
Pronunciation
Noun
hare
Derived terms
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
Etymology
From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.
Noun
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
Etymology
From Old Swedish hari, hæri, from Old Norse *hari, heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô.
Pronunciation
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Noun
hare c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hare | hares |
| definite | haren | harens | |
| plural | indefinite | harar | harars |
| definite | hararna | hararnas |
Derived terms
Phrase
hare
- (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ha det" (in ha det or more generally).
References
Anagrams
Etymology
From *pare, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Compare Javanese pari.
Noun
hare
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