different between yare vs yarm

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yare, ?are, from Old English ?earu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

Alternative forms

• yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (Britain dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III scene iv^[1]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Derived terms

• yarely

Translations

Adverb

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene i^[2]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

Etymology 2

Noun

yare

1. Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, aery, ayre, eyra, year

Japanese

Romanization

yare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Tocharian B

Noun

yare

1. gravel

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?armen, ?ermen, from Old English gyrman, ?ierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *germijan? (“to bleat”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”).

Verb

yarm (third-person singular simple present yarms, present participle yarming, simple past and past participle yarmed)

1. (Britain dialectal) To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
2. (Britain dialectal) To scold; grumble.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?arm, from ?armen.

Noun

yarm (plural yarms)

1. (Britain dialectal) An outcry; noise.

Anagrams

• ARMY, Army, Mary, Mayr, Myra, army, mary

Tocharian B

Noun

yarm

1. measure, measurement