Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

hara

  • noun [ masculine ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
hara, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §57; §238; §401;
A hare
Show examples

  • Hara

    lepus,

      Ælfc. Gl. 19; Som. 59, 21; Wrt. Voc. 22, 62.

  • Se hara mid ðysse wyrte hyne sylfne gelácnaþ

    the hare doctors itself with this plant,

      Herb. 114, 1; Lchdm. i. 226, 22: Med. ex Quadr. 4; Lchdm. i. 342, 14, 16, 18.

  • Haran man mót etan and hé biþ gód wið lengtenádle and wið útsiht gesoden on wætere and his geallan man mæg wið pipor mengan wið múþsáre

    leporem licet comedere, et bonus est contra dysenteriam et diarrhæum, in aqua elixus; et fel ejus miscendum est cum pipere contra dolorem oris,

      L. Ecg. C. 38; Th. ii. 162, 22.

  • Genim haran wulle

    take hare's fur,

      L. M. 3, 65; Lchdm. ii. 354,13.

  • Ne onscúnode nán hara nǽnne hund

    no hare was afraid of any hound,

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 9.

  • Ic gefeó hwílon haran

    capio aliquando lepores,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 21, 33.

  • Hé sætte be ðám haran ðæt hí mósten freó faran

    he decreed concerning hares, that they should go free,

      Chr. 1086; Erl. 222, 30.
Etymology
[Ice1. heri: O. H. Ger. haso: Ger. hase.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hara.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18188.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • hara, n.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.