nare

• enPR: nâr
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɛə/, /nɛː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɛəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

nare (plural nares)

1. (rare, anatomy) A nostril
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:

     There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

The Latin declension, naris (singular) and nares (plural), came to medical English from scholarly use of Latin. It is also generally treated by major dictionaries as the naturalized English declension; that is, many enter English nares and naris but do not enter nare (as of 2017). However, nare has been used in English for centuries; for example, Webster's 1913 enters it, and Samuel Butler's use of it in Hudibras in 1663—"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"—is familiar to readers of Edgar Allan Poe, who used that line as an epigraph to "The Folio Club". It is likely that the singular nare began as the back-formed presumed singular of nares, the latter having been taken by some readers to be an English regular plural, which in turn caused that sense of nares to become realized. But regardless of whether it is such a back-formation or it represents some little-recorded longtime English cognate of Romance words for a nostril (such as narine and narina), it sometimes appears today in phrases giving dosages for nasal administration, such as "5 mL in each nare." In modern medical and pharmacological usage, one can safely prefer naris or nostril simply to avoid using a word that "isn't in the dictionary" and might be viewed by some readers as an error for naris.

• narial

• eRNA, earn, Nera, rean, Rane, Near, near, Earn, Arne, erna, EARN

nare f

1. alternative form of nari

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• IPA^(key): /naɾe/ [na.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -aɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: na‧re

nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)

1. calm

   Synonyms: bare, lasai

• “nare”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “nare”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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nare

1. inflection of naar:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• erna

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: nà‧re

nare f pl

1. (obsolete) alternative form of nari (“nostrils”)

• Nera, nera, rane, rena

nare

1. Rōmaji transcription of なれ

Borrowed from an extinct South Cushitic language. Compare with Afar na'aro (“woman”), Somali naag (“woman”). See also Hebrew נַעֲרָה (na'árah, “young woman, girl”)

nare ? (dual, plural)

1. woman, wife

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

nāre

1. ablative singular of nāris

nāre

1. present active infinitive of nō

nare

1. alternative form of narwe

nare

1. alternative form of narwe

From na +‎ -re.

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.ɾɛ]

nare

1. yesterday

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.

nare

1. buffalo

nare

1. inflection of nara (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

nare f (plural nări)

1. alternative form of nară

From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.

nare class 9/10 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.

nare class 9 (plural dinare)

1. buffalo

nare

1. alternative form of ndar