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nare
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "nare"
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: nâr
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɛə/, /nɛː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /nɛəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Noun
nare (plural nares)
- (rare, anatomy) A nostril
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:
- There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;
Usage notes
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.
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Aromanian
Noun
nare f
- alternative form of nari
Basque
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
nare (comparative nareago, superlative nareen, excessive nareegi)
Declension
Derived terms
- narerik (“calmly”)
- naretasun (“calmness”)
- naretu (“to calm”)
Further reading
- “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
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
nare
- inflection of naar:
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
nare f pl
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Japanese
Romanization
nare
Latin
Verb
nāre
Middle English
Adjective
nare
- alternative form of narwe
Adverb
nare
- alternative form of narwe
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
nare
References
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀦𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- नरे (Devanagari script)
- নরে (Bengali script)
- නරෙ (Sinhalese script)
- နရေ or ၼရေ (Burmese script)
- นเร or นะเร (Thai script)
- ᨶᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ນເຣ or ນະເຣ (Lao script)
- នរេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄚𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
nare
- inflection of nara (“man”):
Romanian
Noun
nare f (plural nări)
- alternative form of nară
Declension
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare class 9/10 (plural dinare)
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njátɪ́.
Noun
nare class 9 (plural dinare)
Venetan
Verb
nare
- alternative form of ndar
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