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lear

See also: Lear, le-ar, and léar

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.

Noun

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lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears) (now Scotland)

  1. Something learned; a lesson.
  2. Learning, lore; doctrine.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100:
      'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'
    • 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads:
      They dressed up in maids' array,
      And passd for sisters fair;
      With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
      For to seek after lear.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).

Verb

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lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared) (archaic)

  1. (transitive, Scotland) To teach.
  2. (intransitive) To learn.
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Etymology 3

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See lehr.

Noun

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lear (plural lears)

  1. Alternative form of lehr.

Etymology 4

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A reference to the "Quality Learing Center", an allegedly fradulent Somali-American-run childcare center in Minneapolis, U.S., which closed in 2026.[1]

Verb

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lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)

  1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of learn
    • 2025 December 30, Mehoyer, “YTD. Little bit worried if I can sustain this in the future...”, in r/Salary‎[2] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
      Better start learing
    • 2026 March 28, @TheDamaniFelder, X‎[3] (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
      My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all.
    • 2026 March 30, @GBNT1952, X‎[4] (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
      "I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau.
    • 2026 May 26, @OldeWorldOrder, X‎[5] (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
      I hope we all leared a valuable lesson today: California is corrupt beyond repair.
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  • The term is sometimes used to insinuate that someone has learned low-quality, fradulent, or propagandistic information.

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  1. ^ Anthony Bettin (7 January 2026), “Minneapolis day care targeted in Nick Shirley YouTube video is now closed, state records show”, in CBS News‎[1], archived from the original on 15 April 2026: “A Minneapolis day care featured in a right-wing YouTuber's video about alleged fraud in Minnesota is now closed, according to state records.”

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Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ligāre. Compare Spanish liar.

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Verb

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lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado)
lear (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, coil
    Synonym: envurullar
  2. (transitive) to link
    Synonym: ligar
  3. (transitive) to entangle
    Synonyms: enlear, enredar
  4. (transitive) to roll (a cigarette)
  5. (pronominal) to wrestle, fight
    Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of lear
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(ti) 		Third-person
(el / ela / Vde.) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal lear
Personal lear leares lear learmos leardes learen
Gerund
leando
Past participle
Masculine leado leados
Feminine leada leadas
Indicative
Present leo leas lea leamos leades lean
Imperfect leaba leabas leaba leabamos leabades leaban
Preterite leei leaches leou leamos leastes learon
Pluperfect leara learas leara learamos learades learan
Future learei learás leará learemos learedes learán
Conditional learía learías learía leariamos leariades learían
Subjunctive
Present lee lees lee leemos leedes leen
Imperfect lease leases lease leásemos leásedes leasen
Future lear leares lear learmos leardes learen
Imperative
Affirmative lea lee leemos leade leen
Negative (non) non lees non lee non leemos non leedes non leen
    Reintegrated conjugation of lear (e may become ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu) 		Second-person
(ti / tu) 		Third-person
(ele / ela / você) 		First-person
(nós) 		Second-person
(vós) 		Third-person
(eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal lear
Personal lear leares lear learmos leardes learem
Gerund
leando
Past participle
Masculine leado leados
Feminine leada leadas
Indicative
Present leio, leo1 leias, leas1 leia, lea1 leamos leades, leais leiam, leam1
Imperfect leava leavas leava leávamos leávades, leáveis, leávais1 leavam
Preterite leei leaste, leache1 leou leamos leastes leárom, learam
Pluperfect leara learas leara leáramos leárades, leáreis, leárais1 learam
Future learei learás leará learemos learedes, leareis learám, learão
Conditional learia learias learia learíamos learíades, learíeis, learíais1 leariam
Subjunctive
Present leie, lee1 leies, lees1 leie, lee1 leemos leedes, leeis leiem, leem1
Imperfect leasse leasses leasse leássemos leássedes, leásseis leassem
Future lear leares lear learmos leardes learem
Imperative
Affirmative leia, lea1 leie, lee1 leemos leade, leai leiem, leem1
Negative (nom) nom leies, nom lees1 nom leie, nom lee1 nom leemos nom leedes, nom leeis nom leiem, nom leem1

1Less recommended.

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish ler, from Proto-Celtic *liros. Cognate with Welsh llŷr.

Noun

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lear m (genitive singular lir)

  1. (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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lear m (genitive singular lear, nominative plural learanna)

  1. (mental) defect
    Tá lear air.
    He's wrong in the head, he's touched.

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 222, page 83

Volapük

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Noun

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lear (genitive leara, plural lears)

  1. olive tree

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Declension of lear
Singular Plural
Nominative lear lears
Genitive leara learas
Dative leare leares
Accusative leari learis
Predicative1 learu learus
Vocative o lear o lears
  1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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  • “lear”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English lere, from Old English *lǣre, gelǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *lāʀi, *lāʀī.

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Adjective

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lear

  1. empty
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
      At ye mye ne'er be wooveless ta vill a lear jock an cooan.
      That you may never be unprovided to fill an empty jack and can.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
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