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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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -????? (-phágos, “eater”), from ???- (phag-), aorist stem of ????? (esthí?), ??? (éd?, “to eat, to consume”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

phage (plural phages or phage)

1. (microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
   • "The plural word phages refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, ?ISBN, p. 81

Synonyms

• bacteriophage

See also

• virophage

References

• phage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phage therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pegah

French

Noun

phage m (plural phages)

1. Synonym of bactériophage