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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɛə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈwɛɹ/
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• Australian: /ˈweː/
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• /ˈwe̝ə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /ˈwiə/ cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /ˈweɹ/
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• /ˈwɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• homophone: wear
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• homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
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• homophone: weir
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• homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: were
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• homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).

From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

From Middle English ware, from Old Norse vár (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wazrą. Cognate with Icelandic vor (“spring”), Swedish vår (“spring”), Danish vår (“spring”), Scots ware, wair (“spring”).

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изделие (izdelie) — product
• Chinese Mandarin: 货物 (huòwù) — product
• Esperanto: varo — product
• Finnish: tavara — product
• Finnish: kauppatavara — product
• German: Ware — product
• Hungarian: áru — product
• Hunsrik: Waar — product
• Ido: varo — product
• Indonesian: perangkat — product
• Italian: merce — product
• Italian: mercanzia — product
• Japanese: 品 (shina) — product
• Norwegian: vare — product
• Polish: towar — product
• Russian: това́р (továr) — product
• Spanish: mercancía — product
• Swedish: vara — product
• Turkish: emtia — product
• Turkish: meta — product
• Turkish: eşya — product
• Turkish: mal — product
• Turkish: malmalzeme — product
• Ukrainian: това́р (továr) — product
• Ukrainian: крам (kram) — product
• Ukrainian: ви́роби (výroby) — product
• Welsh: nwydd — product
• Bulgarian: пазя се от (pazja se ot) — beware of something
• Bulgarian: внимавам (vnimavam) — beware of something
• Ido: -aj — beware of something
• Italian: diffidare — beware of something
• Italian: stare all'erta — beware of something
• Ukrainian: берегти́ся (berehtýsja) — beware of something