rare

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from. Replaced native 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬), and 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1) Very uncommon; scarce.
 * 2)  Thin; of low density.
 * 3)  Good; enjoyable.
 * 4) * 1981, (lyrics),  (vocal), "Vanity Fair" (song):
 * Sees her reflection in a butcher shop.
 * She finds it all quite rare
 * That her meat's all vanity fair.
 * 1)  Good; enjoyable.
 * 2) * 1981, (lyrics),  (vocal), "Vanity Fair" (song):
 * Sees her reflection in a butcher shop.
 * She finds it all quite rare
 * That her meat's all vanity fair.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَادِر
 * Egyptian Arabic: نادر
 * South Levantine Arabic: نادر
 * Asturian: raru
 * Azerbaijani:, seyrək
 * Bashkir: һирәк
 * Basque: arraro
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malofta,
 * Estonian: haruldane, erakordne
 * Faroese: sjáldsamur, rárur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, peu commun
 * Friulian: râr
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπάνιος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: harva
 * Irish: annamh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 희귀(稀貴)하다
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نایاب
 * Latin: rārus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: retas
 * Macedonian: редок
 * Malay:, nadir
 * Maori: onge, ongeonge, mokomokorea, mokorea, mōmōhanga
 * Navajo: bídin hóyééʼ
 * Norman: rare
 * Norwegian: skjelden
 * Occitan:, , , , arrarit
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: рѣдъкъ
 * Old English: selden, seldlic
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: rar, rer
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: raru
 * Scottish Gaelic: gann, ainneamh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ре́дак, рије́дак
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: riedky
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rědki
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: bihira
 * Telugu: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: рідки́й, рі́дкісний
 * Urdu: شاذ
 * Venetian: raro
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: nadir


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  A scarce or uncommon item.

Etymology 2
From a dialectal variant of, from , from , , from , from , from. Related to 🇨🇬. More at.

Adjective

 * 1)  Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.

Translations

 * Belarusian: непрасмажаны, з крывёй, з кроўю
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一分熟
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: halfrauw,
 * Finnish: sisältä raaka, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: al sangue
 * Japanese:
 * Luxembourgish: bluddeg
 * Maori: tūāmata
 * Navajo: tʼóó shichʼilígo
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: mal passado
 * Romanian: în sânge
 * Russian: непрожа́ренный, с кро́вью, ,
 * Spanish:, poco hecho
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: נישט־דערבראָטן

Etymology 3
Variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To rear, rise up, start backwards.
 * 2)  To rear, bring up, raise.
 * 1)  To rear, bring up, raise.

Usage notes

 * Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring with a verb in "raring to". The principal verb in that construction is go. Thus, raring to go ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which rare is most often encountered as a verb.

Etymology 4
Compare,.

Adjective

 * 1)  Early.

Noun

 * 1) weird person

Etymology
Borrowed (in this form) from. Compare the inherited 🇨🇬,.

Adverb

 * 1) rarely

Etymology 1
From.

Adverb

 * 1) thinly, sparsely, here and there
 * 2) rarely, seldom

Etymology
From and.

Adjective

 * 1) airy, vacuous
 * 2) porous, breathable
 * 3) sparsely spread
 * , uncommon, scarce
 * 1) small, little

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) rare