Tare Definition
- lolium-temulentum
- cheat
- darnel
- bearded darnel
(chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
(obsolete) Simple past tense of tear.
Origin of Tare
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Middle English tare (“vetch"), from Proto-Germanic *tarwō (cf. Dutch tarwe (“wheat")), from Proto-Indo-European *drÌ¥Hu̯ā (cf. Welsh drewg (“darnel"), Lithuanian dirvà (“field"), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread"), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dÅ«rvā, “panic grass, millet")).
From Wiktionary
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Middle French tare, from Italian tara, from Arabic طرحة (á¹arḥa, “that which is thrown away"), a derivative of طرح (ṭáraḥa, “to throw (away)").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French ultimately from Arabic ṭarḥ rejection, subtraction from ṭaraḥa to throw away ṭrḥ in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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