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tare

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /tiə/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /teə/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /tɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)
• Dialect dependent homophones: tier (“layer or rank”) (cheer–chair merger), tear (“liquid in eye”) (cheer–chair merger)

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
2. Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
3. (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
   • Matthew 13:25 (KJV)

     But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

Derived terms

• slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
• hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
• smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Noun

tare (countable and uncountable, plural tares)

1. The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.

Translations

See also

• cloff
• gross
• net
• tret

Verb

tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)

1. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
2. (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
   • 2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,

     Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.

Usage notes

• In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

Synonyms

• (to set a zero value): zero

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /teː/, /teə/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tear (“rip”)

Verb

tare

1. (obsolete) simple past of tear

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɹeɪ/

Noun

tare (uncountable)

1. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

Etymology 5

Noun

tare (plural tares)

1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)

Further reading

• “tare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

References

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, rate, tear, tera-

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French terre, from Latin terra.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tar/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

1. (Troyen) soil, ground

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to reject, to deduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ/

Noun

tare f (plural tares)

1. (archaic) deficiency
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. tare (empty weight)

Derived terms

• tarer

Descendants

• → Romanian: tară

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âtre, rate, raté

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: tà‧re

Noun

tare f

1. plural of tara

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, retà, trae

Japanese

Romanization

tare

1. Rōmaji transcription of たれ

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thar, thare, taare, tar

Etymology

Either from an Old English *taru or borrowed from Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch tarwe; in any case, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːr(ə)/

Noun

tare (plural tares or taren)

1. Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
2. The seed of vetch, especially in reference to something worthless.
3. (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

Descendants

• English: tare
• Scots: tare, teer, tere

References

• “tā̆r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tarre (dialectal, Northern Norway)

Etymology

From Old Norse þari. Cognate with Faroese tari, Icelandic þari. Perhaps from a Proto-Germanic *þarhô, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²taːrə/
• Rhymes: -aːrə

Noun

tare m (definite singular taren, indefinite plural tarar, definite plural tarane)

1. kelp (seaweed of the order Laminariales)

Derived terms

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

tare

1. singular optative active of tarati (“to cross over”)

Portuguese

Verb

tare

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

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tālem, accusative of tālis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great / excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ta‧re

Adjective

tare m or f or n (plural tari)

1. (of a material) hard, tough, solid

2. (of a person, now regional or colloquial) strong
3. (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
4. (of an alcoholic drink or drug) strong, hard
5. fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
6. mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
7. (colloquial, slightly dated) cool

Declension

Synonyms

• (hard): dur
• (strong): puternic

Derived terms

• întări

Adverb

tare

1. strongly
2. fast
3. (informal, often ironic) very
4. out loud

Related terms

• atare
• cutare

References

• “tare”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Anagrams

• aret, arte, rate

Spanish

Verb

tare

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

Swedish

Phrase

tare

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ta det" (take it).

   Synonym: tat

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.ɾe]

Verb

tare

1. (intransitive) to crawl

Conjugation

References

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

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