avare

• IPA^(key): /aˈvare/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: a‧va‧re

avare

1. covetously

From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.

• IPA^(key): /a.vaʁ/

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avare (plural avares)

1. stingy, skinflint

avare m or f by sense (plural avares)

1. scrooge, miser

• grigou
• harpagon
• picsou

• “avare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• avéra

• IPA^(key): /aˈva.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: a‧và‧re

avare f pl

1. feminine plural of avaro (“mean, stingy”)

avare

1. plural of avara (“female miser”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.va.re/
• Rhymes: -avare
• Hyphenation: à‧va‧re

avare

1. feminine plural of avaro (“Avar”)

avare

1. plural of avara (“female Avar”)

• varea

From avārus (“avaricious, covetous, greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈwaː.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈvaː.re]

avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously, covetously

   Synonyms: avāriter, avidē, aviditer

2. stingily

   Synonym: avāriter

• “avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French avare.

avare m (plural avares)

1. (Jersey) miser

• agravé
• rapinneux

• avara (regional)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آواره (“exiled; vagrant; homeless; wretched; idle”), from Persian آواره (âvâre).

avare

1. vagabond, vagrant, hobo

   Synonyms: başıboş, aylak, işsiz güçsüz

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آواره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 233
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• "avare" - in kelimeler.gen.tr

avare

1. alternative form of avar
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:

     Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.

     Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23