# tare
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɛə/
* (General American) IPA: /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /teː/, /teə/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /tiə/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /teə/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /tɜː(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophone: tear (“rip”)
* Dialect dependent homophones: tier (“layer or rank”) (cheer–chair merger), tear (“liquid in eye”) (cheer–chair merger)

#### Noun

tare (plural tares)
* (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
* Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
* (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
** Matthew 13:25 (KJV)
    But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
** 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin.

##### Derived terms

* slender tare (Vicia parviflora)
* hairy tare (Vicia hirsuta)
* smooth tare (Vicia tetrasperma)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْحَة (ṭarḥa, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw (away)”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɛə/
* (General American) IPA: /tɛ(ə)ɹ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /teː/, /teə/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophone: tear (“rip”)

#### Noun

tare (countable and uncountable, plural tares)
* The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
** 1824, Stephen Pike, The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic, page 97:What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?

##### See also

* cloff
* gross
* net
* tret

#### Verb

tare (third-person singular simple present tares, present participle taring, simple past and past participle tared)
* (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
** 1886, Records of the History, Laws, Regulations, and Statistics of the Tobacco Trade of the United Kingdom, page 86:he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
** 1959 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 610:Without question, I think, the exploit of "Jubilee" No. 45737 Atlas [...] was the finest [...], for the train was made up to eleven bogies taring the maximum of 350 tons for an engine of this class, notwithstanding which 7 min. was gained on schedule.
* (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
** 2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,
    Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.

##### Usage notes

* In measuring instruments other than balances, this process is usually called zeroing.

##### Synonyms

* (to set a zero value): zero

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɛə/
* (General American) IPA: /tɛɹ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /teː/, /teə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophone: tear (“rip”)

#### Verb

tare
* (obsolete) simple past of tear

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 垂(た)れ (tare, “sauce, gravy”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑːɹeɪ/

#### Noun

tare (uncountable)
* Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

tare (plural tares)
* Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)

### Further reading

* “tare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “tare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “tare”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, rate, tear, tera-

## Champenois
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French terre, from Latin terra.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /tar/

### Noun

tare f (plural tares)
* (Troyen) soil, ground

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tara or Italian tara, from Arabic طَرْح (ṭarḥ, “rubbish, refuse”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to reject, to deduct”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taʁ/

### Noun

tare f (plural tares)
* (archaic) deficiency
* defect, vice, flaw
* tare (empty weight)

#### Derived terms

* tarer

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: tară

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* âtre, rate, raté

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: tà‧re

### Noun

tare f
* plural of tara

### Anagrams

* arte, atre, erta, etra, rate, retà, trae

## Japanese
### Romanization

tare
* Rōmaji transcription of たれ

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* thar, thare, taare, tar

### Etymology

Either from an Old English *taru or borrowed from Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch tarwe; in any case, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaːr(ə)/

### Noun

tare (plural tares or taren)
* Vetch or tare; a member of the genus Vicia.
* The seed of vetch, especially in reference to something worthless.
* (rare) Lolium temulentum (poison darnel).

#### Descendants

* English: tare
* Scots: tare, teer, tere

#### References

* “tā̆r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tarre (dialectal, Northern Norway)

### Etymology

From Old Norse þari. Cognate with Faroese tari, Icelandic þari. Perhaps from a Proto-Germanic *þarhô, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to twist”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²taːrə/
* Rhymes: -aːrə

### Noun

tare m (definite singular taren, indefinite plural tarar, definite plural tarane)
* kelp (seaweed of the order Laminariales)

#### Derived terms

* bladtare
* brennetare
* butare (“Alaria esculenta”)
* djupvasstare
* draugtare (“furbellow, Saccorhiza polyschides”)
* fingertare, tongletare (“Laminaria digitata”)
* geitetare, geittare
* glastare
* grisetare, gristare
* kjempetare (“giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera”)
* kutare
* loppetare
* marlauktare
* moldtare
* rykkjetare
* skinnbroktare
* skolmetare
* skrauvetare
* skrovtare
* skrumletare
* skråmetare
* småtare
* stokktare
* stortare, trolltare (“Laminaria hyperborea”)
* stroktare
* stuvtare
* sukkertare
* svinetare
* søletare
* tareblad
* tarebotn
* tarebruk
* tarebrusk
* taregjedd
* taregreip
* tareklukse
* tarekurv
* tarelegg
* tareljå
* taremodd
* tareoske
* tareskog
* tareskolp
* tarestilk
* tarestokk
* tarestrand
* tarestål
* taretak
* taretistel
* taretongul
* taretorsk
* taretråling
* taretukse
* taretunge (“lemon sole, Microstomus kitt”)
* tarevaksen

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* तरे (Devanagari script)
* তরে (Bengali script)
* තරෙ (Sinhalese script)
* တရေ (Burmese script)
* ตเร or ตะเร (Thai script)
* ᨲᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕເຣ or ຕະເຣ (Lao script)
* តរេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

tare
* singular optative active of tarati (“to cross over”)

## Portuguese
### Verb

tare
* inflection of tarar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin tālem, accusative of tālis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great / excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.re/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: ta‧re

### Adjective

tare m or f or n (plural tari)
* (of a material) hard, tough, solid
    Pâinea este foarte tare.The bread is very hard.
* (of a person, now regional or colloquial) strong
* (of a voice) loud, strong, powerful
* (of an alcoholic drink or drug) strong, hard
* fierce, vehement, intense, vigorous
* mighty, durable, lasting, sturdy
* (colloquial, slightly dated) cool
** 2019, Bianca E., La poli opuși‎, Editura Stylished, →ISBN, page 259:Dar nu vreau să fie iarna când mi-l cumpără pentru că trebuie să aștept prea mult să îl scot din casă. Are remorcă! E super tare!But I don't want it to be winter when I’m bought it because I have to wait too long to take it out of the house. It has a trailer! It's super cool!

#### Synonyms

* (hard): dur
* (strong): puternic

#### Derived terms

* întări

### Adverb

tare
* strongly
* fast
* (informal, often ironic) very
* out loud

#### Related terms

* atare
* cutare

### References

* tare in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

### Anagrams

* aret, arte, rate

## Spanish
### Verb

tare
* inflection of tarar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Phrase

tare
* (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of "ta det" (take it).
    Synonym: tat
    Tare lugnt! (Ta det lugnt!)Take it easy! (Calm down!)

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.ɾe]

### Verb

tare
* (intransitive) to crawl

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh