different between phare vs chare

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French phare. Doublet of Pharos and Hvar.

Noun

phare (plural phares)

1. beacon
2. lighthouse

Anagrams

• Harpe, Phrae, harpe, hepar, raphe

French

Etymology

From Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek ????? (Pháros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: far, phares
• Hyphenation: phare

Adjective

phare (plural phares)

1. leading, signature, key, flagship

Noun

phare m (plural phares)

1. lighthouse
2. lantern in a lighthouse
3. headlight (of a vehicle)
4. headlamp (of a vehicle)
5. (figuratively) beacon, luminary
6. (nautical) the set of sails on the mast

Derived terms

• appel de phares
• phare antibrouillard

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ??? (far)
• ? English: phare
• ? Luxembourgish: Phar
• ? Macedonian: ??? (far)
• ? Moore: faare
• ? Romanian: far
• ? Russian: ???? (fara)
  • ? Crimean Tatar: fara
• ? Vietnamese: pha

Further reading

• “phare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• harpe

English

Alternative forms

• char (turn, task, chore, worker)
• chore (narrow lane)

Etymology

From Middle English chare, variant (due to the verb form charen) of char, cher (“a turn”), from Old English ?ierr, ?err (“a turn, change, time, occasion, affair, business”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to turn, bend”). More at char.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: chair

Noun

chare (plural chares)

1. Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").
2. (Northern England) A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.

Synonyms

• (narrow lane): See Thesaurus:alley

Verb

chare (third-person singular simple present chares, present participle charing, simple past and past participle chared)

1. (intransitive) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.

Anagrams

• Arche, REACH, acher, arche, chear, rache, reach