yare

See also: Yare and y'are

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

Alternative forms

• yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɛː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /jɛɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /jeːɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /jeː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjeə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjiə/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: yair, year (cheer–chair merger)

Adjective

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (UK dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Derived terms

• yarely

Translations

ready, prepared

• Russian: гото́вый (ru) m (gotóvyj), подгото́вленный (ru) m (podgotóvlennyj)

Adverb

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

Etymology 2

Noun

yare

1. Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

• aery, Ayre, ayre, Reay, Eary, year, Raye, Ayer, Arey, eyra

Japanese

Romanization

yare

1. Rōmaji transcription of やれ

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈɾe/ [jɐˈɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ya‧re

Pronoun

yaré (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)

1. Alternative form of yari

Anagrams

• -erya

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈja.ɾe]

Verb

yare

1. (transitive) to scatter

Conjugation

Conjugation of yare

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toyare	foyare	miyare
2nd person		noyare	niyare
3rd person	masculine	oyare	iyare yoyare (archaic)
	feminine	moyare
	neuter	iyare

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• yāre

Etymology

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Noun

yare ?

1. gravel