hare

Significat (English)

Noun

1. Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
2. The meat from this animal.
3. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

Verb

To move swiftly.

Verb

To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

Adj

1. Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
2. Cold, frosty (of weather).

Synonyms

rabbit

🐰

cony

jackrabbit

donkey

🫏

bunny

small rabbit

tear

brown hare

jack-rabbit

malkin

mountain hare

leporide

U

U

Usagi

belt along

family name

food

🍽️

leporine

shoot

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/hɛə/

Etimologia (English)

Cognate with frisó occidental: hazze

Cognate with neerlandès: haas

Cognate with alemany: Hase

Cognate with noruec: -

Cognate with suec: hare

Cognate with islandès: heri

Cognate with anglès antic: hasu

Cognate with alt alemany mitjà: heswe

Cognate with gal·lès: cannu

Cognate with llatí: cānus

Cognate with prussià: sasnis

Cognate with paixtu: سوی

Cognate with sànscrit: शश

Cognate with alemany: hehr

In summary

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-.
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”).