blare
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blare
- /blɛə/ UK
- /blɛ(ə)ɹ/ US
- /bleː/ Australia
- /bleə/ New Zealand
- /bliə/
- /bleɹ/ Scotland
- /blɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like blair, Blair, blear (cheer–chair merger), blur (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
German Low German blaren, blarren
Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)
Saterland Frisian blärje
West Frisian blearje
verb blares · blaring · blared · blear · blair
- To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels. In 2000, a robber held up a bank in San Diego, USA. It seems everyone held their noses rather than sticking their hands up because the man was so smelly! […] Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.
- To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim. [T]he world, the world, / All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart / To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue / To blare its own interpretation— […]
- To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet. The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
- To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring. And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes vpon one ſtreete, and wente on blearynge, and turned nether to the righte hande ner to the lefte.
noun blares · blear · blair · bleir
- A loud sound. I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
- Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance. Archivist Camus, an Old-Constituent appointed Archivist, he and the Ancient Twelve, amid blare of military pomp and clangour, enter, bearing the divine Book: and President and all Legislative Senators, laying their hand on the same, successively take the Oath, with cheers and heart-effusion, univers
- A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring. The herds [of bison], in their flight from the burning pastures had rushed over the bed of the watercourse—scaled the slopes of the banks. […] One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare pierced the reek through which the Brute Hurricane swept.
Translations
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verb of a device such as a loudspeaker or a radio: to produce (music, a sound, etc.) loudly and piercingly
| Deutsch | plärren |
|---|
verb to make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet
| Español | resonar |
|---|---|
| Português | retumbar |
| Français | brailler, hurler, beugler |
| Deutsch | plärren |
| Italiano | risuonare |
| Română | face zgomot, zdrăngăni |
| Русский | гро́мко труби́ть grómko |
verb to make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
| Deutsch | plärren |
|---|
noun loud sound
| Español | estruendo, estrépido |
|---|---|
| Português | clangor, estrondo |
| Français | beuglement, vacarme |
| Deutsch | Geplärre |
| Italiano | squillo, strombettio |
| Română | zgomot |
| Русский | гро́мкий звук grómkij zvuk, рёв rjov |
noun of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance
| Français | brillance, éclat |
|---|---|
| Română | strălucire |
| Русский | цветистость cvetistostʹ, ослепительная вспы́шка oslepitelʹnaja vspýška |
noun lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring
| Deutsch | Geplärre |
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