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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A European hare
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- .
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 hares )
( 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.
( uncountable ) The meat from this animal.
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.
( countable ) The player in a paperchase , or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
animal
Abkhaz: ажьа ( aža )
Afrikaans: haas (af)
Ainu: エペッケ ( epetke )
Albanian: lepur (sq) m
Amis: kudiwis
Arabic: أَرْنَب بَرِّيّ m ( ʔarnab barriyy ) , أَرْنَب m ( ʔarnab )
Egyptian Arabic: ارنب m ( arnab )
Armenian: նապաստակ (hy) ( napastak )
Aromanian: ljepure (roa-rup) m
Assamese: শহা ( xoha ) , শহাপহু ( xohapohu )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ m ( arnḇā ) , ܐܲܪܢܲܒ݂ܬܵܐ f ( arnaḇtā )
Asturian: llebre (ast) f
Avar: гӏанкӏ ( ʻankʼ )
Azerbaijani: dovşan (az)
Bashkir: ҡуян ( quyan )
Basque: erbi (eu)
Bavarian: Hås
Belarusian: за́яц m ( zájac )
Bengali: খরগোশ (bn) ( khorgōś )
Breton: gad (br) f
Bulgarian: за́ек (bg) m ( záek )
Burmese: ယုန် (my) ( yun ) ( rabbit or hare )
Buryat: туулай ( tuulaj )
Catalan: llebre (ca) f
Chechen: пхьагал ( pḥʳagal )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 野兔 ( je5 tou3 )
Dungan: етўзы ( i͡ətwzɨ ) , тўзы ( twzɨ ) , тўр ( twr )
Mandarin: 野兔 (zh) ( yětù ) , 兔子 (zh) ( tùzi )
Chuvash: мулкач ( mulk̬ač ) , куян ( kujan )
Cornish: skovarnek m
Czech: zajíc (cs) m , zaječice f
Dalmatian: lipro m
Danish: hare (da) c
Dutch: haas (nl) m
Elfdalian: eri m
Erzya: нумоло ( numolo )
Esperanto: leporo (eo)
Estonian: jänes (et)
Even: мунрукан ( munrukan )
Evenki: муннукан ( munnukan )
Ewe: fɔmizi n
Faroese: hara
Finnish: jänis (fi)
French: lièvre (fr) m , hase (fr) f
Friulian: jeur m , gneur
Galician: lebre (gl) f , matacán m
Georgian: კურდღელი (ka) ( ḳurdɣeli )
German: Hase (de) m
Greek: λαγός (el) m ( lagós )
Ancient: λαγώς m ( lagṓs ) , λαγός m ( lagós ) , λαγωός m ( lagōós ) , δασύπους m ( dasúpous )
Greenlandic: ukaleq
Hausa: zomo (ha)
Hebrew: אַרְנָב (he) m ( arnáv ) , אַרְנֶבֶת (he) f ( arnévet )
Hindi: खरगोश (hi) m ( khargoś ) , खरहा (hi) m ( kharhā )
Hungarian: vadnyúl (hu) ( literally “ wild hare ” ) , nyúlféle ( literally “ Leporidae ” ) , nyúl (hu) ( literally “ hare and/or rabbit ” ) , mezei nyúl ( literally “ European hare ” ) , kinigli ( literally "cony" )
Icelandic: héri (is) m
Ido: leporo (io)
Indonesian: terwelu (id) , tegalan
Irish: giorria m
Italian: lepre (it) f
Japanese: 野兎 (ja) ( のうさぎ, nousagi ) , 野ウサギ ( nousagi ) , 兎 (ja) ( うさぎ, usagi ) , ウサギ (ja) ( usagi )
Kalmyk: туула ( tuula )
Karachay-Balkar: къоян ( qoyan )
Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
Kashubian: zajc m
Kazakh: қоян ( qoän )
Khakas: хозан ( xozan )
Khitan: 𘬦𘰎𘯺 ( *? lí a )
Khmer: ទន្សាយស្លឹក ( tŭənsaay slək )
Korean: 산토끼 (ko) ( santokki ) , 토끼 (ko) ( tokki )
Kumyk: къоян ( qoyan ) , тавшан ( tawşan )
Kyrgyz: коён (ky) ( koyon )
Ladin: liever m
Lao: ກະຕ່າຍ (lo) ( ka tāi )
Latgalian: začs m
Latin: lepus (la) m
Latvian: zaķis m
Lithuanian: kiškis (lt) m , zuikis m ( dialectal )
Luxembourgish: Hues (lb) m
Macedonian: зајак m ( zajak )
Malay: kelinci , terwelu
Maltese: liebru m
Manx: mwaagh m
Maori: hea
Marathi: ससा ( sasā )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: мераҥ ( meraŋ )
Western Mari: морен ( moren )
Mauritian Creole: lyev
Mi'kmaq: apli'gmuj
Mòcheno: hos m
Mon: ဗတာဲ (mnw)
Mongolian: туулай (mn) ( tuulaj )
Montagnais: uapush
Nahuatl: cihtli (nah)
Navajo: gahtsoh
Neapolitan: lepre f
Ngazidja Comorian: sungurwa class 5 /6
Nogai: тавшан ( tavşan )
Norman: lièvre m ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: njoammil
Northwestern Ojibwa: bagwaji-waabooz
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hare (no) m
Nynorsk: hare m
Occitan: lèbre (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: заѩць m ( zajęcĭ )
Old East Slavic: заѩць m ( zajęcĭ )
Old English: hara m
Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 ( tabïšɣan )
Ossetian:
Digor: тӕрхъос ( tærqos )
Iron: тӕрхъус ( tærqus )
Ottoman Turkish: طاوشان ( tavşan ) , ارنب ( erneb )
Pali: sasa m
Pashto: سوی (ps) ( soai )
Persian: خرگوش (fa) ( xarguš )
Middle Persian: ( /sahōg/ )
Piedmontese: levr f
Plautdietsch: Hos m
Polish: zając (pl) m
Portuguese: lebrão (pt) m , lebre (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸਹਿਆ (pa) m ( sahiā )
Romani: baro-shoshoy m , bari-shoshni f
Romanian: iepure-de-câmp m
Romansch: lieur m
Russian: за́яц (ru) m ( zájac ) , зайчи́ха (ru) f ( zajčíxa )
Sardinian: lèpere m , lèpuri m , brincis m , peldelana f
Scots: bawd , mawkin
Scottish Gaelic: geàrr f , maigheach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зец m
Roman: zec (sh) m
Seychellois Creole: lyev
Shor: қозан
Sicilian: lèpuru m
Silesian: hazŏk m
Sinhalese: හාවෝ ( hāwō )
Slovak: zajac (sk) m
Slovene: zajec (sl) m , zajklja (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower: wuchac m
Upper: zajac (hsb) m
Southern Altai: койон ( koyon )
Southern Sami: njåemele
Spanish: liebre (es) f
Svan: ра̇ꚓв ( räč̣v )
Swahili: sungura (sw)
Swedish: hare (sv) c
Tagalog: liyebre (tl)
Tajik: харгӯш (tg) ( xargüš )
Tarifit: ayarziz m
Tatar: куян (tt) ( quyan )
Thai: กระต่าย (th) ( grà-dtàai ) , กระต่ายป่า (th) ( grà-dtàai-bpàa )
Tibetan: ཡོས ( yos ) , རི་བོང ( ri bong )
Tocharian B: ṣaṣe
Tswana: mmutla
Turkish: tavşan (tr)
Turkmen: towşan
Tuvan: кодан ( kodan )
Udmurt: кеч ( keć )
Ukrainian: за́єць (uk) m ( zájecʹ )
Urdu: خرگوش m ( xargoś ) , خرہا m ( xarhā )
Uyghur: توشقان ( toshqan )
Uzbek: quyon (uz) , tovushqon (uz)
Venetian: jévre m , liévore m
Veps: jäniš
Vietnamese: thỏ rừng
Volapük: liev (vo)
Võro: jänes
Votic: jänez
Walloon: live (wa) m , håze (wa) f
Welsh: ysgyfarnog (cy) f , sgwarnog (cy) f
West Frisian: hazze
Wolof: lëg gi
Yakut: куобах ( kuobaq )
Yiddish: האָז m ( hoz )
Zazaki: arwêş (diq)
Verb
hare (third-person singular simple present hares , present participle haring , simple past and past participle hared )
( 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.
Synonyms
See also
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 )
( 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
( regional ) Grey , hoary ; grey-haired , venerable (of people).
a hare old man
( regional ) Cold , frosty (of weather).
a hare day
References
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch (de ) hare .
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hare
hers ( that or those of her )
Sy het my hemp aangehad en ek hare. She wore my shirt and I wore hers.
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Greek χαρά ( chará , “ joy ” ) .
Noun
haré f (definite haréja )
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,
Further reading
“hare”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language ] (in Albanian), 1980
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: ha‧re
IPA (key ) : /haˈɾe/ ,
Verb
haré
Misspelling of hari .
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hari , heri ( “ hare ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
hare c (singular definite haren , plural indefinite harer )
hare
Inflection
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
Determiner
hare
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.
( archaic ) inflected form of haar
Derived terms
Japanese
Romanization
hare
Rōmaji transcription of はれ
Middle Dutch
Determiner
hāre
inflection of hāer :
feminine nominative / accusative singular
nominative / accusative plural
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hara ; some forms have the vowel of Old Norse heri .
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
hare (plural hares )
A hare or its meat ( lagomorph of the genus Lepus )
( rare ) An individual who is easily scared or frightened.
( rare ) A hare's skin or hide.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Determiner
hare
Alternative form of hire ( “ her ” , genitive )
Pronoun
hare
Alternative form of hire ( “ hers ” )
Etymology 3
Pronoun
hare
Alternative form of hire ( “ her ” , object )
Etymology 4
Noun
hare
Alternative form of her ( “ hair ” )
Etymology 5
Determiner
hare
( 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
Noun
hare m (definite singular haren , indefinite plural harer , definite plural harene )
a hare
References
“hare” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse heri , from Proto-Germanic *hasô . Akin to English hare .
Pronunciation
Noun
hare m (definite singular haren , indefinite plural harar , definite plural harane )
a mountain hare , Lepus timidus
a hare , a small animal of the genus Lepus
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
“hare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
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
optative active singular of harati ( “ to take away ” )
Rapa Nui
Te hare.
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *fale . Cognates include Hawaiian hale and Maori whare .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈha.ɾe/
Hyphenation: ha‧re
Noun
hare
house , home
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 , Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN , page 32
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English hare , from Old English hara .
Noun
hare (plural hares )
a hare , Lepus sp.
( 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
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish hari , hæri , from Old Norse *hari , heri , from Proto-Germanic *hasô .
Pronunciation
Noun
hare c
hare
Declension
Derived terms
Phrase
hare
( colloquial ) Pronunciation spelling of "ha det" (in ha det or more generally).
References
Anagrams
Tetum
Etymology
From *pare , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay . Compare Javanese pari .
Noun
hare
rice (unpicked); rice (plant)