# pare
## English
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pâr, IPA: /pɛə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA: /pɛɹ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /peː/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈpeə/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈpiə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /ˈpeɹ/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/
* Homophones: pair, pear, pere; peer, pier (both cheer–chair merger); per, purr (both fair–fur merger)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

### Verb

pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)
* (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.
* (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: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.
* To trim the hoof of a horse.
* (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.

#### Synonyms

(remove skin): peel, skin

#### Derived terms

* cheeseparing
* pare away
* pare down
* pare off
* parer
* pare to the bone
* paring
* paring knife

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

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

## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɾe/
* Rhymes: -aɾe
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)
* scale (of fish)
    Synonym: luspë

##### Derived terms

* lule pare (“horsetail”)

### Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para).

#### Noun

pare f (plural páre, definite párja, definite plural páret)
* (chiefly colloquial, Gheg) money

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pare”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 311

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 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
### Verb

pare
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parar

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpa.ɾe]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾe

### Noun

pare m (plural pares)
* father

#### Derived terms

* cappare
* Pare de Nadal

### 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, 2025
* “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.

## Coastal Konjo
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pare
* paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pare
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of paren

### Anagrams

* rape

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From paro +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpare/
* Rhymes: -are

### Adverb

pare
* pairwise

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: parent, pares

### Verb

pare
* inflection of parer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* âpre, râpe, râpé

## Galician
### Verb

pare
* inflection of parir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* inflection of parar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpare/
* Hyphenation: pa‧ré
* Rhymes: -re, -e

### Noun

paré (plural pare-pare)
* bitter gourd
    Synonyms: paria, paré

### Further reading

* “pare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Interlingua
### Verb

pare
* present of parer
* imperative of parer

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: pà‧re

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pare
* plural of para

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pare
* third-person singular present indicative of parere

### Anagrams

* apre, arpe, pera, rape

## Javanese
### Romanization

pare
* Alternative spelling of paré. Romanization of ꦥꦫꦺ

## Laboya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpaːre]

### Noun

pare
* rice (plant)

### See also

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

### References

* Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “pare”, in Lamboya word list‎, Leiden: LexiRumah

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpaː.reː/, [ˈpäːreː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpa.re/, [ˈpäːre]

### Verb

pārē
* second-person singular present active imperative of pāreō

## Makasar
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpare/, [ˈpʰa.rɛ]
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

### Noun

pare (Lontara spelling ᨄᨑᨙ)
* paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)
    Synonym: ase

#### Derived terms

* appare-pare

### See also

* berasaʼ (“husked rice”)
* kanre (“cooked rice”)

## Maore Comorian
### Noun

pare class 5 (plural mavare class 6)
* road

### References

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

## Maori
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

pare
* headband, wreath

#### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 321-2
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Oceanic *pale₁ (cognate with Hawaiian pale)

#### Verb

pare
* to ward off, to fend

#### Noun

pare
* defence, protection

#### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 321-2
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pale.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Related terms

* parepare
* papare

### Further reading

* “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
### Noun

pare class 5 (plural mapvare class 6)
* road

### References

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

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑːˈɾɛ/

### Noun

pare m
* money

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.re/
* Rhymes: -re
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

### Noun

pare
* bitter gourd, bitter melon

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 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
* inflection of para (“other”):
** masculine/neuter locative singular
** masculine nominative/accusative plural
** feminine vocative singular

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpa.ɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpa.ɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpa.ɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpa.ɾɨ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

### Verb

pare
* inflection of parar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

#### Verb

pare
* third-person singular present indicative of părea (“to seem”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

#### Adjective

pare
* feminine/neuter indefinite plural of par (“even”)

## Romansch
### Noun

pare f (plural pares)
* (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of paraid (“(internal) wall; rock face”)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pare f (Cyrillic spelling паре)
* (informal) money

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpa.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -aɾe
* Syllabification: pa‧re

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pare m (plural pares)
* (Latin America) stop sign

#### Verb

pare
* inflection of parar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pare
* inflection of parir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pare”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* pre
* par

### Etymology 1

Clipping of kumpare, kompadre.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpaɾe/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛ]
* Rhymes: -aɾe
* Syllabification: pa‧re

#### Noun

pare (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)
* buddy; close male friend
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan
    Coordinate term: mare
* (informal) Term of address to a male stranger

##### Derived terms

* erap
* repa

##### Related terms

* Erap

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish padre.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpaɾeʔ/ [ˈpaː.ɾɛʔ]
* Rhymes: -aɾeʔ
* Syllabification: pa‧re

#### Noun

parè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜒ)
* (religion, archaic) Alternative spelling of pari

### Further reading

* “pare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* pera

## Toraja-Sa'dan
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pare
* paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pāre, para, “a part, piece; a single entire thing, a single article; money, coin”), from Persian پاره (pâre).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paːˈɾe/
* Hyphenation: pa‧re

### Noun

pare (definite accusative pareyi, plural pareler)
* (dated) A piece, part of a whole.
    Synonyms: parça, kısım, bölük, bölüm
* (dated) A single unit, one piece or copy of a thing.
    Synonyms: tane, adet
** 2023 April 22, 21 pare top atışıyla halkı selamlayacak‎, 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.
* Alternative form of para

#### Declension

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 :

#### Derived terms

* ciğerpare
* palaspare
* pare pare
* şekerpare
* varakpare
* yekpare

#### Related terms

* çalpara
* paralamak
* paramparça
* parça

### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 432
* ↑ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 312
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pare”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “pare”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pare”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3778

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem. Compare Italian padre.

### Noun

pare m (plural pari)
* father

#### See also

* mare