Hare
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hare¹
- /hɛə/ UK
- /hɛː/ UK
- /hɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /hɛɚ/ US
- /heː/ Australia
- /heə/ New Zealand
- /hiə/
- /heɾ/ Scotland
- [heːɾ] Scotland
- /hɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like hair, here (cheer–chair merger), her (fair–fur merger)
Where it comes from
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 · hares
- Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears. The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value.
- The meat from this animal. Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.
- The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
verb hares · haring · hared
- To move swiftly. But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support.
hare²
- /hɛə/ UK
- /hɛː/ UK
- /hɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /hɛɚ/ US
- /heː/ Australia
- /heə/ New Zealand
- /hiə/
- /heɾ/ Scotland
- [heːɾ] Scotland
- /hɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like hair, here (cheer–chair merger), her (fair–fur merger)
Where it comes from
From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.
verb hares · haring · hared · harr
- To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
hare³
- /hɛə/ UK
- /hɛː/ UK
- /hɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /hɛɚ/ US
- /heː/ Australia
- /heə/ New Zealand
- /hiə/
- /heɾ/ Scotland
- [heːɾ] Scotland
- /hɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like hair, here (cheer–chair merger), her (fair–fur merger)
Where it comes from
From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
adjective hoar
- Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people). a hare old man
- Cold, frosty (of weather). a hare day
Hare⁴
Where it comes from
* As an Irish surname, from ó hír (“descendant of Ír”), a personal name related to Old Irish sír (“long-lasting”).
* Also as an Irish surname, from ó Haichir (“descendant of Aichear”), from aichear (“sharp”).
* As an English surname, from the noun hare, originally as a nickname.
* Also as an English surname, from Ayre.
* Also as an English surname, from the obsolete Old English hær (“stone”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Hair.
* As a French surname, from the verb harer (“to stir up, excite”), from Old French harier, from Frankish *hariōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to devastate, lay waste”).
* As a German surname, variant of Harr.
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- Synonym of Sahtú.
- A hamlet in Broadway parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST2915).
- An unincorporated community in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
- A dialect of Slavey, an Athabaskan language.
