hare

• IPA^(key): /hɛɚ/, /heɹ/, /heə/

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• Homophone: hair

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”)).

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.

• 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:

     But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.

• 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.
   • 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

• Hera, RHAe, Rahe, Rhea, hear, rhea

From Dutch (de) hare.

hare

1. hers (that or those of her)

   Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare.

   She wore my shirt and I wore hers.

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 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

• Hare Majesteit

hare

1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

hāre

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

hare

1. Alternative form of hire

hare

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

hare

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

From Old English hǣr.

hare

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

hare

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

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Old English hara, from Proto-Germanic *hasô; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːr(ə)/

hare (plural hares)

1. A hare or its meat (lagomorph of the genus Lepus)
2. (rare) An individual who is easily scared or frightened.
3. (rare) A hare's skin or hide.

• English: hare
• Scots: hare, hair

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːrə/
• Homophone: harde

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

1. a hare

• “hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse *heri, from Proto-Germanic *háswa-. 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

• “hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hare

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

From Proto-Polynesian *fale.

hare

1. house

• hare moa
• hare paenga
• hare oka

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

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hare c

1. hare

hare

1. unpicked rice