dere

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (plural deres)

1. (UK dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:injury

   She did him dere.

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, UK, archaic, dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.

   Synonyms: damage, scathe; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt

2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

• dering

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

• der

• (African-American Vernacular, New York City) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

• Eder, Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

• IPA^(key):

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of deren

• deere, deore

From Old English dīere, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːr(ə)/

dere

1. dear

• English: dear
• Scots: dere, deir
• Yola: dear

• “dẹ̄re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Norwegian dialectal dere, a variant of der, from Middle Norwegian *þiðr. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ- from the verb ending in second person plural. Replaced older I (nominative) and eder (accusative).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/

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• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

   Synonyms: I, eder

From Middle Norwegian *þiðr, whence also der. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ-, similar to þit from hafið it.

• IPA^(key): /²deːɾə/, /ˈdeːɾə/

dere

1. (dialectal, South East Norway) objective case of de; alternative form of dykk (“you (plural)”)

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

1. third-person singular present of derati

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دره (dere) itself borrowed from Persian دره (dare, “valley, crack”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈɾe/
• Hyphenation: de‧re

dere

1. creek, small river
2. glen, basin, ravine (a long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a valley)

• “dere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

From Persian دره (darre).

dere

1. valley