See also: Yare and y'are

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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  • yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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.
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Adverb

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yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

  1. (archaic) Yarely.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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yare

  1. Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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yare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of やれ

Tagalog

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Pronoun

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yaré (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. Alternative form of yari

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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yare

  1. (transitive) to scatter

Conjugation

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Conjugation of yare
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st toyare foyare miyare
2nd noyare niyare
3rd Masculine oyare iyare, yoyare
Feminine moyare
Neuter iyare
- archaic

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

Tocharian B

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Noun

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yare ?

  1. gravel