arare

From Japanese あられ (arare).

arare (uncountable)

1. A Japanese confection made from small pieces of mochi (glutinous rice cakes) that are fried and usually flavored with soy sauce or other flavorings.
   • [1997, Richard Hosking, A Dictionary of Japanese Food, page 509:

     arare あられ 霰 little rice crackers resembling hailstones. They are eaten with drinks as tsumamimono.]

   • 2000 September 20, Joan Clarke, “Quick Bites”, in Honolulu Advertiser, page D.3:

     And the newest concoction made by Jen Kunishima at her McCully bakery is Arf Arf Arare, a rice-flour cracker glazed with beef broth, shaped like a tiny doggie bone and hand-wrapped with nori (seaweed).

   • 2002, Kimberly Lau, “This Text Which is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography”, in Journal of Folklore Research, volume 39, number 2/3, page 243:

     We were four generations of women – my maternal greatgrandmother lived with my grandmother at that time – staying in one house with no men, and we were surrounded and supported by the seven sisters who brought us sashimi and takuan for dinner, homemade bento for lunch, arare and mochi and edamame for snacks.

   • 2014 January 24, Midori Yamamura, “Styles good enough to eat: Designers launch brands for tasteful wearable treats”, in The Japan News, Lifestyle:

     A brand named Chimaski focuses on Japanese sweets and snacks. They make accessories that resemble popular snacks such as arare rice crackers and kaki-no-tane rice snacks, which are shaped like persimmon seeds.

From Latin arāre, from Proto-Italic *araō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h₂erh₃-.

• IPA^(key): /aˈra.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: a‧rà‧re

aràre (first-person singular present àro, first-person singular past historic arài, past participle aràto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive) to plough / plow
2. (transitive, slang, informal) to possess sexually

• aratro
• aratore
• aratura
• arvale

• arerà

arare

1. Rōmaji transcription of あられ

arāre

1. inflection of arō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

From ara +‎ -re.

arare f (plural arări)

1. ploughing

• arare in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

arare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of arar