hare

See also: haré and Hare

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

European hare (Lepus europaeus)

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-; possibly related to or influenced by Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”).

Cognates

See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also 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 (countable and uncountable, plural hare or hares)

  2. (countable) Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 111:
      The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value.
  3. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
  4. (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun "hare"
Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: hei
Translations

Verb

hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)

  1. (intransitive) To move swiftly.
    • 2009, Erin Hunter [pseudonym; Erin Hunter Team], Warriors Super Edition: Bluestar's Prophecy, page 451:
      Oakheart didn't look at Bluefur. "ThunderClan doesn't like getting their paws wet," he reminded the she-cat. "You two go back to camp and tell Crookedstar that ThunderClan is at the border," Oakheart told his Clanmates. "I'll stay here and see how many more of them are hanging around."
      Ottersplash and Owlfur hared away into the trees.
    • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC‎[1], archived from the original on 10 September 2026:
      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.
Synonyms

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References

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.
    • 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.

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.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

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.

Akan

Adjective

hare (reduplication harehare)

  1. lightweight, flimsy

References

  • LearnAkan (2018–present), “flimsy”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

haré f (definite haréja)

  1. joy
    Synonym: gëzim
    • 1836, 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, […]

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980

Central Bikol

Pronunciation

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

Verb

haré (Basahan spelling ᜑᜍᜒ)

  1. misspelling of hari

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hari, heri (“hare”), from Proto-Germanic *hesô ~ *haznaz (“hare”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haːrə/, [ˈhɑːɑ]

Noun

hare c (singular definite haren, plural indefinite harer)

  1. hare

Inflection

Declension of hare
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hare haren harer harerne
genitive hares harens harers harernes

See also

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/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧re
  • Rhymes: -aːrə

Pronoun

hare (personal plural haren)

  1. non-attributive form of haar; 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.

Declension

Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe u, zich7 uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person gender-neutral8 hen – hen – hun – hunne zich hunner, huns
plural full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe u, zich7 uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner, huns

1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").
7) Zich is preferred if the reflexive pronoun immediately follows the subject pronoun u, e.g. Meldt u zich aan! 'Log in!', and if the subject pronoun u is used with a verb form that is identical with the third person singular but different from the informal second person singular, e.g. U heeft zich aangemeld. 'You have logged in.' Only u can be used in an imperative if the subject pronoun is not overt, e.g. Meld u aan! 'Log in!', where u is the reflexive pronoun. Otherwise, both u and zich are equally possible, e.g. U meldt u/zich aan. 'You log in.'
8) Not officially recognized in standard Dutch. It has gained popularity, especially in mainstream media and queer circles, as a respectful term for non-binary individuals.

Determiner

hare

  1. (archaic) inflection of haar:
    1. nominative/accusative feminine singular attributive
    2. nominative/accusative plural attributive
  2. (Southern) masculine singular attributive of haar

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

hare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はれ

Middle Dutch

Determiner

hāre

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaːr(ə)/

Noun

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.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

Determiner

hare

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

Pronoun

hare

  1. alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hare

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

Etymology 4

Noun

hare

  1. alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 5

Determiner

hare

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaːrə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophone: harde

Noun

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

  1. a hare

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • 𑀳𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • हरे (Devanagari script)
  • হরে (Bengali script)
  • හරෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ဟရေ or ႁရေ (Burmese script)
  • หเร or หะเร (Thai script)
  • ᩉᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຫເຣ or ຫະເຣ (Lao script)
  • ហរេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄦𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

hare

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

Rapa Nui

Te hare.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hare

  1. house, home
  2. family

Derived terms

References

  • 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

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara.

Noun

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (Unguja standard) IPA(key): /ˈhɑ.ɾɛ/

Verb

-hare

  1. subjunctive stem of -hara

Swedish

en hare

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

hare c

  1. hare

Declension

Declension of hare
nominative genitive
singular indefinite hare hares
definite haren harens
plural indefinite harar harars
definite hararna hararnas

Derived terms

Phrase

hare

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

References

Anagrams

Tetum

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hare

  1. rice (unpicked); rice (plant)

Etymology 2

Verb

hare

  1. alternative spelling of haree (“to see”)
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