hare

• (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /hɛə/, /hɛː/
• (General American)
• IPA^(key): /hɛɚ/

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• Homophone: hair

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-.

hare (countable and uncountable, plural hares)

2. (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.
3. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
   • 1958, Andre Norton, The Time Traders, Cleveland, Oh., New York, N.Y.: The World Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 79:

     Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.

   • 2007, Jamie Oliver, Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life, London: Michael Joseph, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 273:

     Hare is another delicious meat – it’s more ‘steaky’, darker and richer than rabbit.

   • 2013, Anna Del Conte, Gastronomy of Italy, London: Pavilion, →ISBN, page 109:

     In Milan, jugged hare is flavoured with grated chocolate, which adds colour and depth to the sauce.

4. (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

• Sranan Tongo: hei

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.

   • 2015–2021, qntm, “Introductory Antimemetics”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 21:

     Desperate, Kim hurls his phone overarm at the creature's forehead. It's a solid chunk of metal and it's a dead hit. Grey reels backwards and cracks his skull against the wall. By the time he recovers, Kim is out of sight, haring away down the left corridor, just echoing, fading footsteps on concrete.

• rabbit
• race
• speed
• tear

• form (hare's home)
• leveret (young hare)
• jackrabbit (type of hare)

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

• harr

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.

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

• hoar

hare

1. (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).

   a hare old man

2. (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).

   a hare day

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• Ahre, Hera, RHAe, Rahe, Rhea, hear, hera, rhea

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.

• garé — Calabria

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

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, […]

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

• IPA^(key): /haˈɾe/ [haˈɾe]
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈɾe/ [ʔaˈɾe] (h-dropping)
• Hyphenation: ha‧re

haré (Basahan spelling ᜑᜍᜒ)

1. Misspelling of hari.

From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”).

• IPA^(key): /haːrə/, [ˈhɑːɑ]

hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)

1. hare

• hare on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: ha‧re
• Rhymes: -aːrə

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

• Hare Majesteit

hare

1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

hāre

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

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

• hara, haar, hayre, harre, hayr, are, here

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːr(ə)/

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.

• English: hare
• Scots: hare, hair
• Yola: haar

• “hāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-26.

hare

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

hare

1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

hare

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

hare

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

hare

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːrə/

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• Homophone: harde

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

1. a hare

• “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• hårrå (dialectal)

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

• IPA^(key): /²hɑːrə/
• Homophone: harde

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

• jase

• harepest
• harerug
• trollhare

• “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hare

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

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

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

hare

1. house, home
2. family

• 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

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.

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

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

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hare c

1. hare

• harmynt (“harelipped”)
• hartass

hare

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

• hare in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hare in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Hera

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

hare

1. rice (unpicked); rice (plant)