pare

See also: Pare, paré, parè, pâre, parê, parë, päre, parę, and páře

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed 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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /peə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: pair, pear

Verb

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.

3. to trim the hoof of a horse

Synonyms

• to peel
• to skin

Derived terms

• cheeseparing
• pare away
• pare down
• pare off
• parer
• paring
• paring knife

 

Translations

To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a knife

• Dutch: pellen (nl), schillen (nl), snoeien (nl), (af)knippen
• Finnish: kuoria (fi)
• French: éplucher (fr), peler (fr)
• German: schälen (de), pellen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: rekortar (io)
• Russian: очищать (ru) (očiščatʹ)
• Spanish: pelar (es), mondar (es)
• Swedish: skala (sv)

To reduce or trim something (as if) by cutting off

• Dutch: pellen (nl), schillen (nl), beknibbelen (nl), besnoeien (nl)
• Finnish: leikata (fi), supistaa (fi)
• French: rogner (fr)
• German: beschneiden (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: rekortar (io)
• Russian: уре́зать (ru) (urézatʹ)
• Swedish: skala ned, göra avkall, minska (sv)

trim a hoof

• Swedish: verka (sv)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} smiot
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 바르다 (ko) (bareuda)

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

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Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para).

Noun

pare f

1. money

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) pare

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpa.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe

Noun

pare m (plural pares)

1. father

Derived terms

• cappare

Further reading

• “pare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

pare

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of paren

Anagrams

• rape

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Esperanto

Adverb

pare

1. pairwise

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French

Verb

pare

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

Anagrams

• âpre, râpe, râpé

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Galician

Verb

pare

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

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Interlingua

Verb

pare

1. present of parer
2. imperative of parer

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular indicative present of parere

Anagrams

• apre
• arpe
• pera
• rape

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːˈɾɛ/

Noun

1. money (currency)

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Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaːre]

Noun

pare

1. rice (plant)

See also

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

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “pare”, in Lamboya word list‎^[1], Leiden: LexiRumah

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) pārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

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Maore Comorian

Noun

pare class 5 (plural mavhare class 6)

1. road

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Ngazidja Comorian

Noun

pare (noun class 5/6, plural mapvare)

1. road

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀧𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• परे (Devanagari script)
• পরে (Bengali script)
• පරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ပရေ (Burmese script)
• ปเร or ปะเร (Thai script)
• ᨷᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ປເຣ or ປະເຣ (Lao script)
• បរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

pare

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

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Portuguese

Brazilian stop sign

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾi/

Verb

pare

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Verb

pare

1. third-person singular present indicative of părea

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) paraid
• (Sursilvan) preit

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *paretem, from Latin pariēs, parietem.

Noun

pare f (plural pares)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) (internal) wall
2. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) rock face

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) mir
• (Surmiran) meir
• (Puter, Vallader) mür

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)

1. money

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Spanish

Chilean stop sign

Verb

pare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of parar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of parar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of parar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of parar.

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

Noun

pare m (plural pari)

1. father

See also

• mare