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/

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Adjective

avare (plural avares)

1. stingy, skinflint

Noun

avare m or f by sense (plural avares)

1. scrooge, miser

Further reading

• “avare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• avéra

Italian

Etymology 1

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”)

Etymology 2

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

• varea

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯aː.reː/, [äˈu̯äːreː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈva.re/, [äˈväːre]

Adverb

avārē (comparative avārius, superlative avārissimē)

1. greedily, avariciously, covetously

   Synonyms: avāriter, avidē, aviditer

2. stingily

   Synonym: avāriter

Related terms

• audeō
• aventer
• aveō
• aviditer
• aviditās
• avidus
• avidē
• avāriter
• avāritia
• avāritiēs
• avārus
• avēns

 

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

• agravé
• rapinneux

Turkish

Alternative forms

• avara (regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آواره (“exiled; vagrant; homeless; wretched; idle”), from Persian آواره (âvâre).

Adjective

avare

1. vagabond, vagrant, hobo

   Synonyms: başıboş, aylak, işsiz güçsüz

Derived terms

• avarelik

 

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آواره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], 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
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:

     Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.

     Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 23