hare

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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɛə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɛː/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /hɛː/
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• General-American: /hɛɚ/
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• Australian: /heː/
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• New-Zealand: /heə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /hiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /heɾ/
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• Scotland: [heːɾ]
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• /hɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• homophone: hair
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• homophone: here (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: her (fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).

* 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.

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”).

From Middle English harren, harien (“to drag by force, ill-treat”), of uncertain origin. Compare harry, harass.

235 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ажьа (aža) — animal
• Afrikaans: haas — animal
• Ainu: エペッケ (epetke) — animal
• Albanian: lepur — animal
• Southern Altai: койон (koyon) — animal
• Amis: kudiwis — animal
• Arabic: قُوَاع (quwāʕ) — animal
• Arabic: أَرْنَب بَرِّيَّة (ʔarnab barriyya) — animal
• Arabic: أَرْنَب (ʔarnab) — animal
• Arabic: ارنب (arnab) — animal
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ (arnḇā) — animal
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܲܒ݂ܬܵܐ (arnaḇtā) — animal
• Armenian: նապաստակ (napastak) — animal
• Aromanian: ljepure (roa-rup) — animal
• Assamese: শহা (xoha) — animal
• Assamese: শহাপহু (xohapohu) — animal
• Asturian: llebre — animal
• Avar: гӏанкӏ (ʻankʼ) — animal
• Azerbaijani: dovşan — animal
• Bashkir: ҡуян (quyan) — animal
• Basque: erbi — animal
• Belarusian: за́яц (zájac) — animal
• Bengali: খরগোশ (khorgōś) — animal
• Bhojpuri: खरगोश (kharəgōś) — animal
• Breton: gad — animal
• Bulgarian: за́ек (záek) — animal
• Burmese: ယုန် (yun) — animal
• Buryat: туулай (tuulaj) — animal
• Catalan: llebre — animal
• Chechen: пхьагал (pḥragal) — animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 野兔 (je5 tou3) — animal
• Chinese: етўзы (iətwzɨ) — animal
• Chinese: тўзы (twzɨ) — animal
• Chinese: тўр (twr) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 曠兔 /旷兔 (kuàngtù) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 野兔 (yětù) — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 兔子 (tùzi) — animal
• Chuvash: мулкач (mulk̬ač) — animal
• Chuvash: куян (kujan) — animal
• Ngazidja Comorian: sungurwa — animal
• Cornish: skovarnek — animal
• Montagnais: uapush — animal
• Czech: zajíc — animal
• Czech: zaječice — animal
• Dalmatian: lipro — animal
• Danish: hare — animal
• Dutch: haas — animal
• Egyptian: wn-Z1 (wn) — animal
• Egyptian: S29-F32:D36-X1:E34 (sẖꜥt) — animal
• Elfdalian: eri — animal
• Erzya: нумоло (numolo) — animal
• Esperanto: leporo — animal
• Estonian: jänes — animal
• Even: мунрукан (munrukan) — animal
• Evenki: муннукан (munnukan) — animal
• Ewe: fɔmizi — animal
• Faroese: hara — animal
• Finnish: jänis — animal
• French: lièvre — animal
• French: hase — animal
• West-Frisian: hazze — animal
• Friulian: jeur — animal
• Friulian: gneur — animal
• Gagauz: tavşam — animal
• Galician: lebre — animal
• Galician: matacán — animal
• Georgian: კურდღელი (ḳurdɣeli) — animal
• German: Hase — animal
• Bavarian German: Hås — animal
• Greek: λαγός (lagós) — animal
• Ancient Greek: λαγώς (lagṓs) — animal
• Ancient Greek: λαγός (lagós) — animal
• Ancient Greek: λαγωός (lagōós) — animal
• Ancient Greek: δασύπους (dasúpous) — animal
• Greenlandic: ukaleq — animal
• Hausa: zomo — animal
• Hebrew: אַרְנָב (arnáv) — animal
• Hebrew: אַרְנֶבֶת (arnévet) — animal
• Hindi: शशक (śaśak) — animal
• Hindi: शश (śaś) — animal
• Hindi: ख़रगोश (xargoś) — animal
• Hindi: खरगोश (khargoś) — animal
• Hindi: खरहा (kharhā) — animal
• Hungarian: vadnyúl — animal
• Hungarian: nyúlféle — animal
• Hungarian: nyúl — animal
• Hungarian: mezei nyúl — animal
• Hungarian: kinigli — animal
• Icelandic: héri — animal
• Ido: leporo — animal
• Indonesian: terwelu — animal
• Indonesian: tegalan — animal
• Ingrian: jänis — animal
• Irish: giorria — animal
• Italian: lepre — animal
• Japanese: 野兎 (nousagi) — animal
• Japanese: 野ウサギ (nousagi) — animal
• Japanese: 兎 (usagi) — animal
• Japanese: ウサギ (usagi) — animal
• Kalmyk: туула (tuula) — animal
• Karachay-Balkar: къоян (qoyan) — animal
• Kashubian: zajc — animal
• Kazakh: қоян (qoän) — animal
• Khakas: хозан (xozan) — animal
• Khitan: 𘬦𘰎𘯺 — animal
• Khmer: ទន្សាយស្លឹក (tɔɔtŭənsaay slək) — animal
• Komi Yazva: нимөл (ńimål) — animal
• Korean: 산토끼 (santokki) — animal
• Korean: 토끼 (tokki) — animal
• Kumyk: къоян (qoyan) — animal
• Kumyk: тавшан (tawşan) — animal
• Kyrgyz: коён (koyon) — animal
• Ladin: liever — animal
• Lao: ກະຕ່າຍ (ka tāi) — animal
• Latgalian: začs — animal
• Latin: lepus — animal
• Latvian: zaķis — animal
• Lithuanian: kiškis — animal
• Lithuanian: zuikis — animal
• Luxembourgish: Hues — animal
• Macedonian: зајак (zajak) — animal
• Malay: kelinci — animal
• Malay: terwelu — animal
• Maltese: liebru — animal
• Manx: mwaagh — animal
• Māori: hea — animal
• Marathi: ससा (sasā) — animal
• Eastern Mari: мераҥ (meraŋ) — animal
• Western Mari: морен (moren) — animal
• Mauritian Creole: liev — animal
• Mi'kmaq: apli'gmuj — animal
• Mòcheno: hos — animal
• Moksha: нумол (numol) — animal
• Mon: ဗတာဲ — animal
• Mongolian: туулай (tuulaj) — animal
• Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠤᠯᠠᠢ (taulai) — animal
• Nahuatl: cihtli — animal
• Navajo: gahtsoh — animal
• Neapolitan: lepre — animal
• Nogai: тавшан (tavşan) — animal
• Norman: lièvre — animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: hare — animal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hare — animal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jase — animal
• Occitan: lèbre — animal
• Church Slavic: заѩць (zajęcĭ) — animal
• Old East Slavic: заѩць (zajęcĭ) — animal
• Old English: hara — animal
• Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (tabïšɣan) — animal
• Pali: sasa — animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: заяц (zajac) — animal
• Pashto: سوی (soai) — animal
• Dari: خَرْگوش (xargōš) — animal
• Iranian Persian: خَرْگوش (xarguš) — animal
• Middle Persian: [Term?] (/⁠sahōg⁠/) — animal
• Piedmontese: levr — animal
• Plautdietsch: Hos — animal
• Polish: zając — animal
• Portuguese: lebrão — animal
• Portuguese: lebre — animal
• Punjabi: ਸਹਿਆ (sahiā) — animal
• Romani: baro-shoshoy — animal
• Romani: bari-shoshni — animal
• Romanian: iepure-de-câmp — animal
• Romansh: lieur — animal
• Russian: за́яц (zájac) — animal
• Russian: зайчи́ха (zajčíxa) — animal
• Kildin-Sami: нюэммель (njuemm’el’) — animal
• Northern Sami: njoammil — animal
• Southern Sami: njåemele — animal
• Ter Sami: курръя (kurrja) — animal
• Sardinian: lèpere — animal
• Sardinian: lèpuri — animal
• Sardinian: brincis — animal
• Sardinian: peldelana — animal
• Scots: bawd — animal
• Scots: mawkin — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: geàrr — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: maigheach — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: зе̑ц — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: zȇc — animal
• Seychellois Creole: lyev — animal
• Shor: қозан — animal
• Sicilian: lèpuru — animal
• Silesian: hazŏk — animal
• Sinhalese: හාවෝ (hāwō) — animal
• Slovak: zajac — animal
• Slovene: zajec — animal
• Slovene: zajklja — animal
• Lower Sorbian: wuchac — animal
• Upper Sorbian: zajac — animal
• Spanish: liebre — animal
• Svan: ра̇ꚓв — animal
• Swahili: sungura — animal
• Swedish: hare — animal
• Tagalog: liyebre — animal
• Tajik: харгӯш (xargüš) — animal
• Tamil: முயல் (muyal) — animal
• Tarifit: ayarẓiẓ — animal
• Tarifit: tayarẓiṣt — animal
• Tatar: куян (quyan) — animal
• Thai: กระต่าย (grà-dtàai) — animal
• Thai: กระต่ายป่า (grà-dtàai-bpàa) — animal
• Tibetan: ཡོས (yos) — animal
• Tibetan: རི་བོང (ri bong) — animal
• Tocharian B: ṣaṣe — animal
• Tswana: mmutla — animal
• Turkish: tavşan — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: طاوشان (tavşan) — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: ارنب (erneb) — animal
• Turkmen: towşan — animal
• Tuvan: кодан (kodan) — animal
• Udmurt: кеч (keć) — animal
• Ukrainian: за́єць (zájecʹ) — animal
• Urdu: خَرْگوش (xargoś) — animal
• Urdu: خَرْہا (xarhā) — animal
• Uyghur: توشقان (toshqan) — animal
• Uzbek: quyon — animal
• Uzbek: tovushqon — animal
• Venetan: jévre — animal
• Venetan: liévore — animal
• Veps: jäniš — animal
• Vietnamese: thỏ rừng — animal
• Volapük: liev — animal
• Võro: jänes — animal
• Votic: jänez — animal
• Walloon: live — animal
• Walloon: håze — animal
• Wappo: yéniš — animal
• Welsh: ysgyfarnog — animal
• Welsh: sgwarnog — animal
• Wolof: lëg gi — animal
• Yakut: куобах (kuobaq) — animal
• Yiddish: האָז (hoz) — animal
• Zazaki: arwêş (diq) — animal