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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).

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Verb

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pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)

  1. (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
    Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
  2. (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
    Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
    • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎[5]:
      Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”
    • 1960 April, “The European Summer Timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 223:
      From May 29 another 10 min. are being pared from the southbound journey, and the time over the 504.4 miles from Paris to Hendaye will come down to 6 hr. 58 min., an average of 72.4 m.p.h. with two intermediate stops.
  3. To trim the hoof of a horse.
  4. (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.

Synonyms

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(remove skin): peel, skin

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Translations

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Anagrams

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Singularized plural of Proto-Albanian *par continuing Proto-Albanian *para. See Lithuanian periù~perti.[1]

Noun

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pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

  1. scale (of fish)
    Synonym: luspë
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Classical Persian پاره (pāra).

Noun

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pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)

  1. (chiefly colloquial, Gheg) money

Declension

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Declension of pare
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pare parja pare paret
accusative paren
dative pare pares pareve pareve
ablative paresh

References

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  1. ^ Oryol, Vladimir E. (1998), “pare”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 311

Further reading

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  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[6], 1980
  • “pare”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “pare”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 351

Asturian

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Verb

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pare

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parar

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin patrem, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

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Noun

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pare m (plural pares)

  1. father

Derived terms

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Coastal Konjo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Noun

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pare

  1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

Dutch

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Verb

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pare

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of paren

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From paro +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpare/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Syllabification: pa‧re

Adverb

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pare

  1. pairwise

French

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Verb

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pare

  1. inflection of parer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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Verb

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pare

  1. inflection of parir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of parar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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From Javanese ꦥꦫꦺ (paré). Doublet of paria and peria.

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Noun

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paré (plural pare-pare)

  1. bitter gourd
    Synonyms: paria, paré
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Malay [Term?].

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Noun

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paré (plural pare-pare)

  1. (dialect Bangka Malay) smokehouse, smokery for fish [since 2024]
  2. (dialect Jambi Malay) a place to store firewood located above the stove [since 2024]

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?], from Proto-Austronesian *pajay. Doublet of padi

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Noun

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paré (plural pare-pare)

  1. rice
    Synonym: padi

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Malay [Term?].

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Noun

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parê (plural pare-pare)

  1. (agriculture, dialect Jambi Malay) a place to spread sprouted rice, made from nipa palm stems, with legs, with a samir base.

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Interlingua

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Verb

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pare

  1. present of parer
  2. imperative of parer

Italian

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Noun

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pare f (plural pari) (archaic or poetic)[3]

  1. archaic form of pari (“peer”)

Noun

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pare f

  1. plural of para

Verb

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pare

  1. third-person singular present indicative of parere
    Alternative form: (apocopic) par

References

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  1. ^ parere in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
  2. ^ pare → pari in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
  3. ^ pari in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

Anagrams

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Javanese

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Romanization

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pare

  1. alternative spelling of paré, romanization of ꦥꦫꦺ

Laboya

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pare

  1. rice (plant)

See also

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  • kadodo (“cooked rice”)
  • wiha (“uncooked rice”)

References

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  • Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “pare”, in Lamboya word list‎[7], Leiden: LexiRumah

Latin

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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pare

  1. ablative masculine/feminine singular of pār

Noun

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pare

  1. ablative singular of pār m or f (“companion; comrade; mate; spouse”)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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pare

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of pariō (“to bear; to give birth to”)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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pāre

  1. vocative singular of pārus

Etymology 4

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Verb

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pārē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō (“to appear; to be visible”)

Makasar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpare/, [ˈpʰa.rɛ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

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pare (Lontara spelling ᨄᨑᨙ)

  1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
    Synonym: ase

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Maore Comorian

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Noun

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pare class 5 (plural mavare class 6)

  1. road

References

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  • “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

Māori

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Oceanic *pale₂ (cognate with Hawaiian pale (“headdress, cover”), Samoan pale and Tongan pale (both “wreath”))[1][2]

Noun

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pare

  1. headband, wreath

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 321-2
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Oceanic *pale₁ (cognate with Hawaiian pale)[1][2]

Verb

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pare

  1. to ward off, to fend

Noun

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pare

  1. defence, protection

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[2], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 321-2
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
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Further reading

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  • “pare” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Ngazidja Comorian

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Noun

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pare class 5 (plural mapvare class 6)

  1. road

References

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  • “pare” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

Northern Kurdish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pare m

  1. money

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəria (“bitter melon”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pa.re/
  • Rhymes: -re
  • Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

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pare

  1. bitter gourd, bitter melon

Descendants

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  • > Javanese: ꦥꦫꦺ (paré) (inherited)
    • → Indonesian: pare

Further reading

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  • "pare" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

Adjective

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pare

  1. inflection of para (“other”):
    1. masculine/neuter locative singular
    2. masculine nominative/accusative plural
    3. feminine vocative singular

Portuguese

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Brazilian stop sign

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Verb

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pare

  1. inflection of parar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pa‧re

Etymology 1

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Verb

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pare

  1. third-person singular present indicative of părea (“to seem”)

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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pare

  1. feminine/neuter indefinite plural of par (“even”)

Romansh

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Noun

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pare f (plural pares)

  1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alternative form of paraid (“(internal) wall; rock face”)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

Noun

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pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

  1. (informal) money

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpa.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: pa‧re

Etymology 1

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Chilean stop sign

From parar (“to stop”) +‎ -e.

Noun

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pare m (plural pares)

  1. stop, an act of stopping
  2. (Latin America) stop sign

Verb

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pare

  1. inflection of parar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

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Verb

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pare

  1. inflection of parir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of kumpare, kompadre.

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Noun

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pare (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

  1. buddy; close male friend
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan
    Coordinate term: mare
  2. (informal) Term of address to a male stranger
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish padre.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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parè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)

  1. (religion, archaic) alternative spelling of pari

Further reading

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  • “pare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

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Toraja-Sa'dan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.

Noun

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pare

  1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pāre, para, “a part, piece; a single entire thing, a single article; money, coin”),[1][2] from Classical Persian پاره (pāra).[3]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /paːˈɾe/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧re

Noun

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pare (definite accusative pareyi, plural pareler)

  1. (dated) A piece, part of a whole.
    Synonyms: parça, kısım, bölük, bölüm
  2. (dated) A single unit, one piece or copy of a thing.
    Synonyms: tane, adet
    • 2023 April 22, 21 pare top atışıyla halkı selamlayacak‎[8], İstanbul: Aydınlık:
      Sarayburnu'nda halkın ziyaretine açılan Türkiye'nin en büyük savaş gemisi TCG Anadolu'nun, 23 Nisan saat 12.00'de İstanbul Boğazı'ndan geçiş yaparak 21 pare top atışı ve çimariva ile halkı selamlayacağı duyuruldu.
      It was announced that TCG Anadolu, Turkey's largest warship, which was opened to public visit in Sarayburnu, will salute the public with a 21-piece gun salute and çimariva while passing through the Bosphorus at 12:00 on April 23rd.
  3. alternative form of para

Declension

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Declension of pare
singular plural
nominative pare pareler
definite accusative pareyi pareleri
dative pareye parelere
locative parede parelerde
ablative pareden parelerden
genitive parenin parelerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular parem parelerim
2nd singular paren parelerin
3rd singular paresi pareleri
1st plural paremiz parelerimiz
2nd plural pareniz pareleriniz
3rd plural pareleri pareleri
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular paremi parelerimi
2nd singular pareni parelerini
3rd singular paresini parelerini
1st plural paremizi parelerimizi
2nd plural parenizi parelerinizi
3rd plural parelerini parelerini
dative
singular plural
1st singular pareme parelerime
2nd singular parene parelerine
3rd singular paresine parelerine
1st plural paremize parelerimize
2nd plural parenize parelerinize
3rd plural parelerine parelerine
locative
singular plural
1st singular paremde parelerimde
2nd singular parende parelerinde
3rd singular paresinde parelerinde
1st plural paremizde parelerimizde
2nd plural parenizde parelerinizde
3rd plural parelerinde parelerinde
ablative
singular plural
1st singular paremden parelerimden
2nd singular parenden parelerinden
3rd singular paresinden parelerinden
1st plural paremizden parelerimizden
2nd plural parenizden parelerinizden
3rd plural parelerinden parelerinden
genitive
singular plural
1st singular paremin parelerimin
2nd singular parenin parelerinin
3rd singular paresinin parelerinin
1st plural paremizin parelerimizin
2nd plural parenizin parelerinizin
3rd plural parelerinin parelerinin

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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پاره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 432
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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Venetan

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Etymology

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From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

Noun

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pare m (plural pari)

  1. father

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