Hase

Etymology 1
surname, from and, from.

Etymology 2
, from earlier. Not from the noun meaning, but related to its ultimate source: from , from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A river in Lower Saxony, Germany

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from an root originally meaning grey.

Noun

 * 1) hare animal of either sex
 * 2)  the constellation Lepus

Usage notes

 * While English speakers tend to mistakenly use the word “rabbit” for hares, the German tendency is the reverse: Hase is sometimes mistakenly used instead of, and it tends to be the preferred word whenever the distinction is irrelevant or impossible to tell (for example, a bunny girl is a in German and the Easter bunny is called ).

Hypernyms

 * (Hasenartige)
 * (Hasentiere)

Etymology 2
German and Jewish surname, from the noun meaning "hare" (see Etymology 1 above). Occasionally calqued from, of the same meaning.