yare

From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

• yar (for the nautical sense)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɛː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /jɛɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /jeːɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /jeː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjeə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjiə/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈjɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: yair, year (cheer–chair merger)

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (UK dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

• yarely

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

yare

1. Alternative form of yair.

• aery, Ayre, ayre, Reay, Eary, year, Raye, Ayer, Arey, eyra

yare

1. Rōmaji transcription of やれ

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈɾe/ [jɐˈɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ya‧re

yaré (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜇᜒ) (dialectal, colloquial)

1. alternative form of yari

• -erya

• IPA^(key): [ˈja.ɾe]

yare

1. (transitive) to scatter

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• yāre

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yare ?

1. gravel