hare

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable) Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
2. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
3. (countable) 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. (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
2. (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).

Concepts

lièvre

lapin

🐰

hase

Lièvre

Synonymes

rabbit

🐰

cony

jackrabbit

donkey

🫏

bunny

small rabbit

tear

brown hare

jack-rabbit

malkin

mountain hare

leporide

U

Usagi

belt along

family name

food

🍽️

leporine

shoot

Traductions

lepre

Hase

liebre

haas

lebre

λαγός

tavşan

🐰

llebre

lèbre

lepus

conejo

🐰

coelho

🐰

lebrão

Kaninchen

🐰

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hɛə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à frison occidental: hazze

Appartenant à néerlandais: haas

Appartenant à allemand: Hase

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à suédois: hare

Appartenant à islandais: heri

Appartenant à ancien anglais: hasu

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: heswe

Appartenant à gallois: cannu

Appartenant à latin: cānus

Appartenant à prussien: sasnis

Appartenant à pachto: سوی

Appartenant à sanskrit: शश

Appartenant à 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”).