pare

See also paré, parë, and päre

English

Etymology

From Old French parer "arrange, prepare, trim", from Latin parare "make ready" (related to parere "produce, bring forth"), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”). -f-

Pronunciation

• enPR: pâr, IPA: /peə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /pe@(r\)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)-f-
• Homophones: pair, pear

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

   We pared the paired pears.

2. (transitive) 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.

3. to trim the hoof of a horse

Synonyms

• to peel
• to skin

Derived terms

• cheeseparing
• parer
• paring
• paring knife
• pare away
• pare down
• pare off

Translations

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

• Dutch: pellen, schillen, snoeien, (af)knippen
• Finnish: kuoria (fi)
• French: éplucher (fr), peler (fr)

• Russian: очищать (ru) (očiščatʹ)
• Spanish: pelar (es)
• Swedish: skala (sv)

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

• Dutch: pellen (nl), schillen (nl), beknibbelen (nl), besnoeien (nl)
• Finnish: leikata (fi), supistaa (fi)
• French: rogner (fr)

• Russian: урезать (ru) (urezatʹ)
• Swedish: skala ned (sv), göra avkall (sv), minska (sv)

trim a hoof

• Swedish: verka (sv)

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• Korean: 바르다 (bareuda)

Anagrams

• aper, pear, rape, reap

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Albanian

Noun

pare f

1. money.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Standard) IPA: /'paɾə/, X-SAMPA: /"pa4@/
• (Valencian) IPA: /'paɾe/, X-SAMPA: /"pa4e/
• Rhymes: -aɾə

Etymology

From Latin pater 'father'.

Noun

pare m (plural pares)

1. father

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Dutch

Verb

pare

1. singular present subjunctive of paren

Anagrams

• rape

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French

Verb

pare

1. first-person singular present indicative of parer
2. third-person singular present indicative of parer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of parer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of parer
5. second-person singular imperative of parer

Anagrams

• âpre, râpe, râpé

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Galician

Verb

pare

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

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Interlingua

Verb

pare

1. present of parer
2. imperative of parer

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Italian

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular indicative present of parere

Anagrams

• apre
• arpe
• pera
• rape

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Kurdish

Noun

pare m

1. money (currency)

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Latin

Verb

pārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

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Portuguese

Verb

pare

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of parar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of parar
3. first-person singular imperative of parar
4. third-person singular imperative of parar

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Romanian

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular present tense form of părea.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) paraid
• (Sursilvan) preit

Etymology

From Latin pariēs, parietem.

Noun

pare f (plural pares)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) (internal) wall
2. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) rock face

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) mir
• (Surmiran) meir
• (Puter, Vallader) mür

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

1. money

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Spanish

Verb

pare (infinitive parar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of parar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of parar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of parar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of parar.

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian padre

Noun

pare m (plural pari)

1. father