avare

See also: avarè and Avaré

Esperanto

Adverb

avare

  1. covetously

French

Etymology

From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.vaʁ/
  • (file)

Adjective

avare (plural avares)

  1. stingy, skinflint

Noun

avare m or f by sense (plural avares)

  1. scrooge, miser

Further reading

Anagrams


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈva.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧và‧re

Adjective

avare f pl

  1. feminine plural of avaro (mean, stingy)

Noun

avare

  1. plural of avara (female miser)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.va.re/
  • Rhymes: -avare
  • Hyphenation: à‧va‧re

Adjective

avare

  1. feminine plural of avaro (Avar)

Noun

avare

  1. plural of avara (female Avar)

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From avārus (avaricious, covetous, greedy), from aveō (wish, desire, long for, crave).

Pronunciation

Adverb

avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

  1. greedily, avariciously, covetously
    Synonyms: avāriter, avidē, aviditer
  2. stingily
    Synonym: avāriter

References

  • avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • avare”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • avare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French avare.

Noun

avare m (plural avares)

  1. (Jersey) miser

Synonyms


Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آواره (exiled; vagrant; homeless; wretched; idle), from Persian [Term?].

Adjective

avare

  1. vagabond, vagrant, hobo

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • avarelik

Further reading

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), avare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), آواره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 233
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • avare in kelimeler.gen.tr

Yola

Adverb

avare

  1. Alternative form of avar

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 23
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