hare

Meaning

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɛə/

Etymology

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”).