だれ

See also: たれ

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of だれ – see the following entry.

【誰】S [pronoun] interrogative personal pronoun: who, whom [pronoun] (informal, clipping of 誰か) someone, anyone (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

(This term, だれ (dare), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as だれ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as だれ.

Etymology 2

Shift from だり (dari).

Numeral

だれ • (dare) 

1. [from 1787] (cant) four; forty; four hundred

   Synonyms: 四 (yon, “four”, standard), 四十 (yonju, “forty”, standard), 四百 (yonhyaku, “four hundred”, standard)