pare

From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛə/

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• (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /peː/

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• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpeə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpiə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/
• Homophones: pair, pear, pere; peer, pier (both cheer–chair merger); per, purr (both fair–fur merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)

1. (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.

   Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.

2. (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.

   Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.

   • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎^[5]:

     Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”

   • 1960 April, “The European Summer Timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 223:

     From May 29 another 10 min. are being pared from the southbound journey, and the time over the 504.4 miles from Paris to Hendaye will come down to 6 hr. 58 min., an average of 72.4 m.p.h. with two intermediate stops.

3. To trim the hoof of a horse.
4. (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.

(remove skin): peel, skin

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

Singularized plural of Proto-Albanian *par continuing Proto-Albanian *para. See Lithuanian periù~perti.^[1]

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

1. scale (of fish)

   Synonym: luspë

• lule pare (“horsetail”)

From Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para).

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

1. (chiefly colloquial, Gheg) money

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[6], 1980
• “pare”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “pare”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 351

pare

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parar

Inherited from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpa.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -aɾe

pare m (plural pares)

1. father

• cappare
• Pare de Nadal

• “pare”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “pare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

pare

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

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pare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of paren

• rape

From paro +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare

1. pairwise

• IPA^(key): /paʁ/

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• Homophones: parent, pares

pare

1. inflection of parer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• âpre, râpe, râpé

pare

1. inflection of parir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Javanese ꦥꦫꦺ (paré). Doublet of paria and pěria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ré
• Rhymes: -re, -e

paré (plural pare-pare)

1. bitter gourd

   Synonyms: paria, paré

• “pare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

pare

1. present of parer
2. imperative of parer

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pà‧re

pare f (plural pari) (archaic or poetic)^[3]

1. archaic form of pari (“peer”)

pare f

1. plural of para

pare

1. third-person singular present indicative of parere

   Alternative form: (apocopic) par

• apre, arpe, pera, rape

pare

1. alternative spelling of paré, romanization of ꦥꦫꦺ

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaːre]

pare

1. rice (plant)

• kadodo (“cooked rice”)
• wiha (“uncooked rice”)

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “pare”, in Lamboya word list‎^[7], Leiden: LexiRumah

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.re]

pare m or f

1. ablative singular of pār (“companion, comrade, mate, spouse”)

pare

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pariō (“to bear, to give birth to”)

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

pārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpare/, [ˈpʰa.rɛ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare (Lontara spelling ᨄᨑᨙ)

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

   Synonym: ase

• berasaʼ (“husked rice”)
• kanre (“cooked rice”)

pare class 5 (plural mavare class 6)

1. road

• “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

From Proto-Oceanic *pale₂ (cognate with Hawaiian pale (“headdress, cover”), Samoan pale and Tongan pale (both “wreath”))^[1][2]

pare

1. headband, wreath

From Proto-Oceanic *pale₁ (cognate with Hawaiian pale)^[1][2]

pare

1. to ward off, to fend

pare

1. defence, protection

• parepare
• papare

• “pare” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

pare class 5 (plural mapvare class 6)

1. road

• “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /pɑːˈɾɛ/

pare m

1. money

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəria (“bitter melon”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.re/
• Rhymes: -re
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare

1. bitter gourd, bitter melon

• > Javanese: ꦥꦫꦺ (paré) (inherited)
  • → Indonesian: pare

• "pare" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

pare

1. inflection of para (“other”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine nominative/accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare

1. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare

1. third-person singular present indicative of părea (“to seem”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare

1. feminine/neuter indefinite plural of par (“even”)

pare f (plural pares)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alternative form of paraid (“(internal) wall; rock face”)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

1. (informal) money

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpa.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧re

pare m (plural pares)

1. (Latin America) stop sign

pare

1. inflection of parar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

pare

1. inflection of parir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pare”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• pre
• par

Clipping of kumpare, kompadre.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: pa‧re

pare (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

1. buddy; close male friend

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan

   Coordinate term: mare

2. (informal) Term of address to a male stranger

Borrowed from Spanish padre.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾeʔ/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɾeʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧re

parè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

1. (religion, archaic) alternative spelling of pari

• “pare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• pera

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

pare

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pāre, para, “a part, piece; a single entire thing, a single article; money, coin”),^[1][2] from Persian پاره (pâre).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /paːˈɾe/
• Hyphenation: pa‧re

pare (definite accusative pareyi, plural pareler)

1. (dated) A piece, part of a whole.

   Synonyms: parça, kısım, bölük, bölüm

2. (dated) A single unit, one piece or copy of a thing.

   Synonyms: tane, adet

   • 2023 April 22, 21 pare top atışıyla halkı selamlayacak‎^[8], İstanbul: Aydınlık:

     Sarayburnu'nda halkın ziyaretine açılan Türkiye'nin en büyük savaş gemisi TCG Anadolu'nun, 23 Nisan saat 12.00'de İstanbul Boğazı'ndan geçiş yaparak 21 pare top atışı ve çimariva ile halkı selamlayacağı duyuruldu.

     It was announced that TCG Anadolu, Turkey's largest warship, which was opened to public visit in Sarayburnu, will salute the public with a 21-piece gun salute and çimariva while passing through the Bosphorus at 12:00 on April 23rd.

3. alternative form of para

• “pare”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pare”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3778

From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

pare m (plural pari)

1. father

• mare