are

From Middle English aren, from Old English earun, earon (“are”), reinforced by Old Norse plural forms in er- (displacing alternative Old English sind and bēoþ), from Proto-Germanic *arun (“(they) are”), from Proto-Germanic *esi/*izi (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”).

Cognate with Old Norse eru (“(they) are”) (> Icelandic eru (“(they) are”), Swedish äro (“(they) are”), Danish er (“(they) are”)), Old English eart (“(thou) art”). More at art.

• aren, arn (obsolete or dialectal)
• ar (obsolete)

Stressed

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: ar, IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɐː/
• (Northern England, Wales) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /aː(ɹ)/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /äɹ/, /ɑɹ/, /ɐɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /aɹ/, /äːɹ/, /ɑɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /äɹ/, /äɾ/
• (now dialectal) IPA^(key): /ɛə(ɹ)/, /ɛː(ɹ)/^[1]
• (proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our") IPA^(key): /aʊɚ/, /aʊə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophones: argh, r, our
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Unstressed

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada, Ireland) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɚ/

are

1. second-person singular simple present of be

   Mary, where are you going?

2. first-person plural simple present of be

   We are not coming.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)‎^[2]:

     Here we are!

     Audio (US):

     (file)

3. second-person plural simple present of be

   Mary and John, are you listening?

4. third-person plural simple present of be

   They are here somewhere.

5. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be

• The pronunciation /aʊɚ/ arising from confusion of "are" and "our" is rare; however, it occasionally occurs due to the fact that the latter can be elided into /ɑɹ/ in quick speech.

• (second-person singular): (archaic) art (used with thou)

From French are.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛə/, /ɛː/
• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /ɛəɹ/, /ɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, eyre, heir, err (one pronunciation); e'er

are (plural ares)

2. (rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

• Are is now rarely used except in its derivative hectare.

• (SI unit): (rare) square decametre

  Are on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

are

1. (UK, US) Misspelling of our.

Sometimes used deliberately as a form of classist humour, as a mocking imitation of a person with little education.

• 'ear, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, ReA, aër-, Aer, ERA, era, Rae

are

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of arë

From Proto-Basque *arhe.

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /aɾe/ [a.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧re

are inan

1. rake

Borrowed from French are, from Latin ārea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.rə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: are
• Rhymes: -aːrə

are f (plural aren or ares)

1. are, a unit of surface area

• hectare

• → Indonesian: are
• → Papiamentu: are

Learned formation from Latin area, a piece of level ground. Doublet of aire.

• Homophone: art

are m (plural ares)

1. an are

• Danish: ar
• Norwegian Bokmål: ar

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

From Dutch are, from French are, from Latin ārea. Doublet of area.

• IPA^(key): [ˈarə]
• Hyphenation: arê

arê (uncountable)

1. are: an SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent.

• “are” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.re/
• Homophone: -are (infinitive verb suffix)
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: à‧re

Variant of aere.

are m (plural ari)

1. Archaic form of aere.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

are f pl

1. plural of ara

• -erà, Era, Rea, era, rea

are

1. Rōmaji transcription of あれ

ārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of āreō

• “are”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

are

1. long, large sickle

are (Raguileo spelling)

1. warmth, heat

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

are

1. genitive/dative feminine of an

are

1. (chiefly Kent and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

are

1. Alternative form of hare (“hare”)

are

1. (Northern or Early Middle English) Alternative form of ore (“honour”)

are

1. (Northern) Alternative form of ore (“oar”)

are

1. Alternative form of aren

Perhaps from a Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German verb.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

are (present tense arar, past tense ara, past participle ara, passive infinitive arast, present participle arande, imperative are/ar)

1. (reflexive) to suit, fit

are

1. (dialectal) alternative form of andre

are

1. (dialectal) alternative form of andre

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

are

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) white-tailed eagle

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːre/

āre f

1. honor, glory, grace

Weak feminine (n-stem):

āre

1. dative singular of ār (“messenger, herald; angel; missionary”)

From Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

2=āre

are n

1. ear

• North Frisian:

  Föhr: uar

  Hallig, Mooring: uur

  Helgoland: Uaar

• Saterland Frisian: Oor
• West Frisian: ear

Onomatopoeic.

are

1. wow, whoa
2. yay

• re

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aɾi, (Portugal) -aɾɨ
• Hyphenation: a‧re

are m (plural ares)

1. (historical) are (unit of area)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

are

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.re/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: a‧re

Compare Latin habēret, habuerit. Compare Aromanian ari. See also ar, auxiliary used in a periphrastic construction of the conditional.

are

1. third-person singular indicative present of avea (“to have”)

• a

are

1. third-person singular/plural subjunctive present of ara (“to plow”)

From Middle English are, from Old English ār (“honor, worth, dignity”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō (“respect, honour”), from *ais- (“to honour, respect, revere”).

Cognate with Dutch eer (“honour, credit”), German Ehre (“honour, glory”), Latin erus (“master, professor”).

are (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) grace; mercy

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾe/ [ˈa.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: a‧re

are

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈɾe/ [ʔɐˈɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: a‧re

aré (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒ) (chiefly Batangas, Mindoro, Marinduque)

1. Alternative form of ari: this one; this

   Synonyms: (Manila) ito, (Central Luzon) ire, (Central Luzon) ere

   Ano ga are? ― What is this?

• -era

From Proto-Tani *a-lə, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la.

are

1. (anatomy) foot, leg

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾe]

are

1. (transitive) to scratch

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qazay.

are

1. ant

are

1. plural of ara

are (definite form are bi)

1. stop, especially a bus stop

From Japanese あれ (are, “that”).

are

1. third person singular pronoun
2. that (person or object)

• (third person singular pronoun): (Hanhsi) zibun, zin

• (that):
  • kore, are, dore
  • koci, aci, doko
  • kono, ano, dono
  • konna no, anna no, donna no
  • konnasite, annasite, donnasite

• (third person singular pronoun): aretaci, ataci

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎^[3], pages 513-532
• Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎^[4], volume 14, number 4
• Chien Yuehchen (2019) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの指示詞”, in 社会言語科学 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society]‎^[5], volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65

• IPA^(key): /à.ɾē/

àre

1. vindication, justification; justice
2. excuse, pardon

• dáre (“to vindicate”)
• jàre (“please, pardon me”)
• káre (“well done!”)

From the same root as eré, iré, and uré, see Proto-Yoruba *V-ré

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾé/

aré

1. Alternative form of eré (“running, race”)
2. Alternative form of eré (“speed”)
3. Alternative form of eré (“play, pastime”)

• IPA^(key): /à.ɾē/

àre

1. miserableness; the state of being miserable and aimless

• ráre (“to walk around aimlessly”)