dere

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (plural deres)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:injury

   She did him dere.

From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.

   Synonyms: damage, scathe; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt

2. (transitive, obsolete) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

• dering

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

• der

• (African-American Vernacular, New York City) IPA^(key): /dɛː(ɹ)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d̪iəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

• Eder, Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛrɛ]

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere

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

dere

1. Rōmaji transcription of デレ

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

dēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of dō

From Old English dīere, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

• deere, deore

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːr(ə)/

dere

1. dear

• English: dear
• Scots: dere, deir
• Yola: dear

• “dẹ̄re, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Either a back-formation from deren (“to harm”) or a modification of Old English daru with assimilation of the vowel to that verb.

• der
• deere, deire, derre (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ̞ːr(ə)/

dere (plural deres)

1. A harm or damage; something harmful:
   1. An injury or wound; a physical harm.
   2. A misdeed or infliction.
2. An obstacle or challenge.

• English: dere (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: dere, deir
  • Scots: deare, dere (obsolete)

• “dēre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

dere

1. (Northern or Late Middle English) alternative form of der (“deer”)

dere

1. alternative form of deren

From Norwegian dialectal dere, a variant of der, from Middle Norwegian *þiðr. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ- from the verb ending in second person plural. Replaced older I (nominative) and eder (accusative).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːɾə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːrə

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

   Synonyms: I, eder

From Middle Norwegian *þiðr, whence also der. Borrowed from Old East Norse iðʀ with added þ-, similar to þit from hafið it.

• IPA^(key): /²deːɾə/, /ˈdeːɾə/

dere

1. (dialectal, South East Norway) objective case of de; alternative form of dykk (“you (plural)”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.re/

dere

1. singular imperative of derian

dere (Cyrillic spelling дере)

1. third-person singular present of derati

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دره (dere), from Classical Persian دَرَه (dara, “valley, crack”).

• IPA^(key): /deˈɾe/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: de‧re

dere (definite accusative dereyi, plural dereler)

1. creek, small river

   Coordinate terms: çay, akarsu, nehir, ırmak

2. glen, basin, ravine (a long area of relatively low elevation, often having a stream bed at the bottom, surrounded by mountains or hills, usually smaller than a valley)

• “dere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “dere”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛrɛ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈdeːrɛ/, /ˈdɛrɛ/

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

From Persian دره (darre).

dere

1. valley