hare

Signification (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).

Concepts

lièvre

lapin

🐰

hase

Lièvre

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hɛə/

Étymologie (English)

Cognate with frison occidental: hazze

Cognate with néerlandais: haas

Cognate with allemand: Hase

Cognate with norvégien: -

Cognate with suédois: hare

Cognate with islandais: heri

Cognate with ancien anglais: hasu

Cognate with moyen haut-allemand: heswe

Cognate with gallois: cannu

Cognate with latin: cānus

Cognate with prussien: sasnis

Cognate with pachto: سوی

Cognate with sanskrit: शश

Cognate with allemand: 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”).