Other forms: blaring, blared, blares
To blare is to sound out loudly and harshly. A horn, a siren, a television nobody is watching.
The sound is unpleasant by definition, which separates blaring from merely being loud. It suits brass instruments, car horns and radios turned up too far, and it usually takes out. As a noun, the blare of a trumpet is a standard phrase. Its close cousin blast is a single burst where a blare goes on and on, and drone is the quiet version of the same complaint.
Blare began with a goat. Middle English bloren meant to bellow, to wail or to bleat, from a root that simply imitates the noise, which is the same imitation sitting inside bleat.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleh₁- — to bleat, cry
Old English
*blǣran
Middle English
blaren
English, today
blare
Built from
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren). The noun is derived from the verb. stq blärje
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Sounds & Noises
First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.
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