hare

See also: haré and Hare

English

A European hare

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛɚ/, /heɹ/, /heə/
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  • Homophone: hair

Etymology 1

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-Germanic *hasô (compare West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”) (compare Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én- (compare 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

hare (plural hares)

  1. 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. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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:
      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

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

Alternative forms

Verb

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.
    • 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

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

Alternative forms

Adjective

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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Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch (de) hare.

Pronoun

hare

  1. hers (that or those of her)
    Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.
    She wore my shirt and I wore hers.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haːrə/, [ˈhɑːɑ]

Noun

hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)

  1. hare

Inflection

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦaː.rə/
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  • Hyphenation: ha‧re
  • Rhymes: -aːrə

Determiner

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 her one. That car is hers.
    Dat huis is het hare. — That house is her one. That house is hers.
    Dat is de/het hare. — That is her one. That is hers.
  2. (archaic) inflected form of haar

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

hare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

Middle Dutch

Determiner

hāre

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

hare

  1. Alternative form of hire

Pronoun

hare

  1. Alternative form of hire

References

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hare

  1. Alternative form of hire

References

Etymology 3

From Old English hēr.

Noun

hare

  1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

hare

  1. (chiefly West Midland and Kentish dialectal) Alternative form of here (“their”)
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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. a hare

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse *heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. Akin to English hare.

Pronunciation

Noun

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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Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale.

Noun

hare

  1. house

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

hare c

  1. hare

Declension

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

Tetum

Noun

hare

  1. unpicked rice
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