# snare
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /snɛ(ə)ɹ/
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* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /snɛə/
* (General Australian) IPA: /sneː/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /sneə/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /sniə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /sneɹ/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /snɜː(ɹ)/
* Homophone: sneer (cheer–chair merger)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

### Noun

snare (plural snares)
* A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
** 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear‎, London: Heinemann, published 1960, Book Three, Chapter One, pp. 196-197:He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
** 2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 18, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, New York: Knopf, published 2014, page 332:He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
* A mental or psychological trap.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 23:33:[…] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
** 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 193:[…] and I had now liv’d two Years under these Uneasinesses, which indeed made my Life much less comfortable than it was before; as may well be imagin’d by any who know what it is to live in the constant Snare of the Fear of Man […]
** 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:“ […] riches are a great snare.”
** 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat‎, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part One, Chapter 9, p. 173:They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.
* (veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
* (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
* (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
* (music) A snare drum.

#### Translations
### Verb

snare (third-person singular simple present snares, present participle snaring, simple past and past participle snared)
* (transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
** 2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
* (transitive, figurative) To ensnare.

#### Translations

Bulgarian: впримчвам (bg) (vprimčvam)
Czech: chytit do oka pf, lapit (cs) pf
Dutch: strikken (nl)
Egyptian: (ꜥḥ)
Hungarian: csapdába ejt, csapdával fog, tőrbe csal
Italian: prendere al lazo
Maori: rore, toromāhanga
Portuguese: engodar (pt), enlaçar (pt)
Swedish: snara (sv) :

### Related terms

* ensnare
* snare drum
* snare-picture
* snarl

### Anagrams

* Nears, reans, nares, saner, Serna, Saner, earns, nears, Arnes, Ranes, RNase, eRNAs, ernas, Seran, Naser

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse snara (“a snare”), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ. Cognate with English snare.

### Noun

snare c (singular definite snaren, plural indefinite snarer)
* snare
    Synonym: fælde
* (figurative) a trap, trick or anything else that can harm people

#### See also

* rævesaks

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English snearu, from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ.

#### Alternative forms

* snaare, snarr, snarre

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsnaːr(ə)/

#### Noun

snare (plural snares)
* A trap for catching animals.
* A noose or snare (rope loop)
* (figuratively) A temptation or peril.

##### Related terms

* snaren
* snarl

##### Descendants

* English: snare
* Scots: snare

##### References

* “snāre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

snare
* Alternative form of snaren

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse snara.

#### Noun

snare f or m (definite singular snara or snaren, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)
* a snare
* a trap
    Synonym: felle

#### Verb

snare (present tense snarer, past tense snara or snaret, past participle snara or snaret)
* (transitive) to catch in a snare

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

snare
* inflection of snar:
** definite singular
** plural

### References

* “snare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Arnes, Ernas, anser, ranes, rasen, rensa, saner

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse snara (“a snare”), from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ. Cognate with English snare.

#### Alternative forms

* Snara, Snora, snara, snora, snoru (noun, obsolete forms and spellings)
* snara (verb, split and a-infinitives)

#### Noun

snare f (definite singular snara, indefinite plural snarer, definite plural snarene)
* a snare
* a trap
    Synonym: felle

##### Derived terms

* rennesnare

#### Verb

snare (present tense snarar, past tense snara, past participle snara, passive infinitive snarast, present participle snarande, imperative snare/snar)
* (transitive) to catch in a snare
* (transitive) to ensnare

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

snare
* inflection of snar:
** definite singular
** plural

### References

* “snare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Arnes, Ernas, ensar, naser, rasen, saner

## Swedish
### Adjective

snare
* definite natural masculine singular of snar

### Anagrams

* Arnes, Enars, Ernas, anser, arens, enars, erans, rasen, reans, renas, rensa, resan