ears

English Online Dictionary. What means ears‎? What does ears mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪɹz/, /ɪəɹz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪəz/, /ɪə(ɹ)z/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z

Noun

ears

1. plural of ear

Derived terms

Verb

ears

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ear

Anagrams

• Sare, eras, arse, AREs, Sera, Ersa, ERAs, reas, Sear, sera, sear, RASE, SERA, rase, Ares, ares, ARSE, sare

Old English

Alternative forms

• ærs

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos. Cognate with Old Frisian ers, Old Saxon ars, Old High German ars, Old Norse ars ~ rass, and more distantly with Middle Armenian ոռ (oṙ, “ass”) and Modern Greek ουρά (ourá, “tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ͜ɑrs/, [æ͜ɑrˠs]

Noun

ears m

1. butt, arse

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: ars, arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars
  • English: arse, ass
  • Scots: ers, airse

Palauan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *layaʀ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ears

1. (nautical) sail

References

• ears in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• ears in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• ears in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 86.