glare

English

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
An angry or fierce stare.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
(US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
a glare of ice
A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

light

Bulgarian: блясък (bg) m (bljasǎk)
Catalan: brillantor (ca) f, esclat (ca) m, ressol (ca) m (of the sun)
Czech: záře (cs) f
Danish: blændende lys
Finnish: häikäisevä valo
French: éclat (fr)
Galician: lampexo (gl) m, relostro m, luzada f, lampo (gl) m, fogaxe f, fachada f
German: Blendung (de) f
Irish: dallrú m
Italian: bagliore (it) m, lampo (it) m
Manx: ard-sollys m
Maori: kōnakonako
Polish: blask (pl) m
Portuguese: clarão (pt) m
Volapük: tulit
Welsh: llewyrch m, llewych m

brilliance

Danish: skin (da)
Finnish: komeilu (fi), prameilu (fi), pöyhkeily (fi)
French: éclat (fr)
Galician: lampexo (gl) m, relostro m, luzada f, brillo (gl) m, fogaxe f, crarén m
Polish: blask (pl) m

angry or fierce stare

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

(intransitive) To stare angrily.
He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXIX:
  eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
  Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]
(intransitive) To shine brightly.
The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
(intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount
  She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
(transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

to stare angrily

to shine brightly

to be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid

to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
glare	ghlare	nglare
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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