hare
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /hɛɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: hair
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
edithare (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
edithare (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
editSee also
edit- form (hare's home)
- leveret (young hare)
- jackrabbit (type of hare)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
Alternative forms
editVerb
edithare (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
editFrom Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
Alternative forms
editAdjective
edithare
- (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
- a hare old man
- (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
- a hare day
References
editAnagrams
editAfrikaans
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Pronoun
edithare
- hers (that or those of her)
- Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.
- She wore my shirt and I wore hers.
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLikely borrowed from Greek χαρά (chará, “joy”).
Noun
editharé 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
editPronunciation
editVerb
editharé (Basahan spelling ᜑᜍᜒ)
- Misspelling of hari.
Danish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)
Inflection
editSee also
edit- hare on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch hare. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
edithare (personal plural haren)
- non-attributive form of haar; hers
Declension
editsubject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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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
edithare
Derived terms
editJapanese
editRomanization
edithare
Middle Dutch
editDeterminer
edithāre
- inflection of hāer:
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English hara; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithare (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
editReferences
edit- “hāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-26.
Etymology 2
editDeterminer
edithare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)
Pronoun
edithare
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 3
editPronoun
edithare
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)
Etymology 4
editNoun
edithare
- Alternative form of her (“hair”)
Etymology 5
editDeterminer
edithare
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. Compare with German Hase, Swedish hare.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithare m (definite singular haren, indefinite plural harer, definite plural harene)
- a hare
References
edit- “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Norse heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô. Akin to English hare.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithare 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
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali
editAlternative forms
editVerb
edithare
Rapa Nui
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *fale. Cognates include Hawaiian hale and Maori whare.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithare
Derived terms
editReferences
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
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English hare, from Old English hara.
Noun
edithare (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
editEtymology
editFrom Old Swedish hari, hæri, from Old Norse *hari, heri, from Proto-Germanic *hasô.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
edithare c
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | hare | hares |
definite | haren | harens | |
plural | indefinite | harar | harars |
definite | hararna | hararnas |
Derived terms
editPhrase
edithare
- (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
editTetum
editEtymology
editFrom *pare, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay. Compare Javanese pari.
Noun
edithare
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