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yare¹

  • /jɛː/ UK
  • /jɛɹ/ US
  • /jeːɹ/ Scotland
  • /jeː/ Australia
  • /ˈjeə/ New Zealand
  • /ˈjiə/
  • /ˈjɜː(ɹ)/

Sounds like yair, year (cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, ger (“perfect”).

adjective yarer · yarest · yar

  1. archaic Ready; prepared.
  2. UK, dialectal Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. […]Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.
  3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
  4. of a ship Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar. c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

adverb more yare · most yare · yar

  1. archaic Yarely. Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle.[…]

yare²

noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of yair

Yare³

  • /jɛə(ɹ)/

Where it comes from

Of Anglo-Celtic origin, the name probably means "babbling brook," from a Celtic base *gar- (“noisy, chattering”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *karō (“complaint, moan”) and Latin garrio (“to babble, chatter”).

proper noun

  1. A river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea at Great Yarmouth.

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adj ready, prepared

Русскийгото́вый gotóvyj, подгото́вленный podgotóvlennyj

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@misc{yare_2026,
  title = {yare},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yare},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}