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, 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