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hare

See also: haré and Hare

English

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Etymology 1

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A European hare
 
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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

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hare (countable and uncountable, plural hares)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
  3. (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
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  • Sranan Tongo: hei
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Verb

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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[1]:
      But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
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Etymology 2

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

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Verb

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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

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From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).

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hare

  1. (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
    a hare old man
  2. (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
    a hare day

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch (de) hare.

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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

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

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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, […]

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  • “hare”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ha‧re
  • IPA(key): /haˈɾe/, [haˈɾe]

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haré

  1. Misspelling of hari.

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).

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  • IPA(key): /haːrə/, [ˈhɑːɑ]

Noun

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hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)

  1. hare

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

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

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Determiner

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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

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Romanization

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hare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

Middle Dutch

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hāre

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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

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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.
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Etymology 2

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hare

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

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hare

  1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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hare

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

Etymology 4

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Noun

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hare

  1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 5

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hare

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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

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

  1. a hare

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

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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

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Pali

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hare

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

Rapa Nui

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Te hare.

Etymology

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

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

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hare

  1. house, home
  2. family

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.

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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

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Etymology

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

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hare c

  1. hare

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Declension of hare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hare haren harar hararna
Genitive hares harens harars hararnas

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Phrase

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hare

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

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Tetum

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Etymology

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

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hare

  1. rice (unpicked); rice (plant)
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