rare

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɛə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ɹɛː/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɹɛɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɹɛɹ/
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• Australian: /ɹeː/
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• New-Zealand: /ɹeə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /ɹiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /ɾeɾ/
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• Scotland: [ɾeːɾ]
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• Ireland: [ɹɜɹ]
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• /ɹɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• Multicultural-London-English: /ɹɛ/
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: rear (cheer–chair merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: R EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1reh1- (“friable, thin”). Displaced native English geason (“rare, scarce”) (from Middle English gesen, from Old English gǣsne); and largely displaced Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden) and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne) hence modern English seld

From a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear.

Compare rather, rath.

Variant of rear.

170 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rrallë — very uncommon
• Arabic: نَادِر (nādir) — very uncommon
• Arabic: نادر (nādir) — very uncommon
• Arabic: نادر (náder) — very uncommon
• Asturian: raru — very uncommon
• Azerbaijani: nadir — very uncommon
• Azerbaijani: seyrək — very uncommon
• Bashkir: һирәк (hirək) — very uncommon
• Basque: arraro — very uncommon
• Belarusian: рэ́дкі (rédki) — very uncommon
• Bulgarian: ря́дък (rjádǎk) — very uncommon
• Bulgarian: необикновен (neobiknoven) — very uncommon
• Catalan: rar — very uncommon
• Chinese Mandarin: 稀少 (xīshǎo) — very uncommon
• Chinese Mandarin: 稀疏 (xīshū) — very uncommon
• Chinese Mandarin: 稀有 (xīyǒu) — very uncommon
• Chinese Mandarin: 罕見 /罕见 (hǎnjiàn) — very uncommon
• Czech: vzácný — very uncommon
• Czech: řídký — very uncommon
• Danish: sjælden — very uncommon
• Dutch: zeldzaam — very uncommon
• Esperanto: malofta — very uncommon
• Esperanto: rara — very uncommon
• Estonian: haruldane — very uncommon
• Estonian: erakordne — very uncommon
• Faroese: sjáldsamur — very uncommon
• Faroese: rárur — very uncommon
• Finnish: harvinainen — very uncommon
• French: rare — very uncommon
• French: peu commun — very uncommon
• Friulian: râr — very uncommon
• Galician: raro — very uncommon
• German: selten — very uncommon
• German: rar — very uncommon
• Greek: σπάνιος (spánios) — very uncommon
• Ancient Greek: σπάνιος (spánios) — very uncommon
• Hebrew: נדיר (nadir) — very uncommon
• Hindi: विरल (viral) — very uncommon
• Hindi: दुर्लभ (durlabh) — very uncommon
• Hindi: नायाब (nāyāb) — very uncommon
• Hindi: नादिर (nādir) — very uncommon
• Hindi: कमयाब (kamyāb) — very uncommon
• Hindi: अप्राप्य (aprāpya) — very uncommon
• Hungarian: ritka — very uncommon
• Ido: rara — very uncommon
• Indonesian: jarang — very uncommon
• Indonesian: langka — very uncommon
• Ingrian: harva — very uncommon
• Irish: annamh — very uncommon
• Irish: tearc — very uncommon
• Italian: raro — very uncommon
• Japanese: 珍しい (mezurashii) — very uncommon
• Japanese: 稀な — very uncommon
• Korean: 드물다 (deumulda) — very uncommon
• Korean: 희귀(稀貴)하다 (huigwihada) — very uncommon
• Central Kurdish: نایاب (nayab) — very uncommon
• Latin: rārus — very uncommon
• Latvian: rets — very uncommon
• Lithuanian: retas — very uncommon
• Macedonian: редок (redok) — very uncommon
• Malay: jarang — very uncommon
• Malay: nadir — very uncommon
• Māori: onge — very uncommon
• Māori: ongeonge — very uncommon
• Māori: mokomokorea — very uncommon
• Māori: mokorea — very uncommon
• Māori: mōmōhanga — very uncommon
• Navajo: bídin hóyééʼ — very uncommon
• Norman: rare — very uncommon
• Norwegian: skjelden — very uncommon
• Occitan: requist — very uncommon
• Occitan: rar — very uncommon
• Occitan: rare — very uncommon
• Occitan: escàs — very uncommon
• Occitan: arrarit — very uncommon
• Church Slavic: рѣдъкъ (rědŭkŭ) — very uncommon
• Old English: selden — very uncommon
• Old English: seldlic — very uncommon
• Persian: کمیاب (kamyâb) — very uncommon
• Persian: نایاب (nâyâb) — very uncommon
• Persian: شاذ (šâzz) — very uncommon
• Polish: rzadki — very uncommon
• Portuguese: raro — very uncommon
• Romanian: rar — very uncommon
• Romansh: rar — very uncommon
• Romansh: rer — very uncommon
• Russian: ре́дкий (rédkij) — very uncommon
• Sanskrit: विरल (virala) — very uncommon
• Sanskrit: दुर्लभ (durlabha) — very uncommon
• Sardinian: raru — very uncommon
• Scottish Gaelic: gann — very uncommon
• Scottish Gaelic: ainneamh — very uncommon
• Serbo-Croatian: ре́дак — very uncommon
• Serbo-Croatian: рије́дак — very uncommon
• Serbo-Croatian: rédak — very uncommon
• Serbo-Croatian: rijédak — very uncommon
• Sicilian: raru — very uncommon
• Simbari: arôre — very uncommon
• Slovak: riedky — very uncommon
• Slovak: vzácny — very uncommon
• Slovene: rédek — very uncommon
• Lower Sorbian: rědki — very uncommon
• Spanish: raro — very uncommon
• Spanish: insólito — very uncommon
• Spanish: ralo — very uncommon
• Spanish: muy incomún — very uncommon
• Swedish: sällsynt — very uncommon
• Swedish: ovanlig — very uncommon
• Tagalog: bihira — very uncommon
• Telugu: అరుదు (arudu) — very uncommon
• Telugu: దుర్లభము (durlabhamu) — very uncommon
• Turkish: nadir — very uncommon
• Turkish: ender — very uncommon
• Turkish: nadide — very uncommon
• Ukrainian: рідки́й (ridkýj) — very uncommon
• Ukrainian: рі́дкісний (rídkisnyj) — very uncommon
• Urdu: شاذ (śāz) — very uncommon
• Venetan: raro — very uncommon
• Vietnamese: hiếm — very uncommon
• Welsh: prin — very uncommon
• Zazaki: nadir — very uncommon
• Bulgarian: рядък (rjadǎk) — thin density gas
• Bulgarian: разреден (razreden) — thin density gas
• Catalan: rar — thin density gas
• Finnish: harva — thin density gas
• German: verdünnt — thin density gas
• Korean: 희박(稀薄)하다 (huibakhada) — thin density gas
• Portuguese: rarefeito — thin density gas
• Romanian: rarefiat — thin density gas
• Russian: разрежённый (razrežónnyj) — thin density gas
• Spanish: ralo — thin density gas
• Belarusian: непрасмажаны (njeprasmažany) — cooked very lightly
• Belarusian: з крывёй (z kryvjój) — cooked very lightly
• Belarusian: з кроўю (z krówju) — cooked very lightly
• Bulgarian: недоварен (nedovaren) — cooked very lightly
• Bulgarian: недопечен (nedopečen) — cooked very lightly
• Catalan: cru — cooked very lightly
• Chinese Mandarin: 一分熟 (yīfēnshú) — cooked very lightly
• Czech: krvavý — cooked very lightly
• Danish: rød — cooked very lightly
• Dutch: halfrauw — cooked very lightly
• Dutch: saignant — cooked very lightly
• Finnish: sisältä raaka — cooked very lightly
• Finnish: raaka — cooked very lightly
• Finnish: verinen — cooked very lightly
• French: saignant — cooked very lightly
• German: blutig — cooked very lightly
• German: englisch — cooked very lightly
• Hebrew: נא (ná) — cooked very lightly
• Hebrew: נִמְרָשׁ (nimrásh) — cooked very lightly
• Hungarian: véres — cooked very lightly
• Italian: al sangue — cooked very lightly
• Japanese: レア (rea) — cooked very lightly
• Luxembourgish: bluddeg — cooked very lightly
• Māori: tūāmata — cooked very lightly
• Māori: tōtoto — cooked very lightly
• Māori: mangungu — cooked very lightly
• Navajo: tʼóó shichʼilígo — cooked very lightly
• Polish: krwisty — cooked very lightly
• Portuguese: mal passado — cooked very lightly
• Romanian: în sânge — cooked very lightly
• Russian: непрожа́ренный (neprožárennyj) — cooked very lightly
• Russian: с кро́вью (s króvʹju) — cooked very lightly
• Russian: крова́вый (krovávyj) — cooked very lightly
• Russian: кровяни́стый (krovjanístyj) — cooked very lightly
• Spanish: crudo — cooked very lightly
• Spanish: poco hecho — cooked very lightly
• Spanish: jugoso — cooked very lightly
• Swedish: blodig — cooked very lightly
• Yiddish: נישט־דערבראָטן (nisht-derbrotn) — cooked very lightly