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English

Etymology

Related to Middle Dutch hare and modern Dutch haere.

Noun

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

1. Coastal fog along the coast of North East England and Scotland bordering the North Sea.

Anagrams

• Hara

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r/

Etymology 1

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hez?i.

Pronoun

haar (subject sy)

1. her (object)

See also

Etymology 2

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hez?z.

Determiner

haar

1. her

Etymology 3

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Noun

haar (plural hare)

1. hair

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Härre, hoar, hoor, hàre

Etymology

From Old High German h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

haar n

1. (Formazza, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person's head)

References

• “haar” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• har (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German h?r, from Old High German h?r, from Proto-West Germanic *h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”). Cognate with German Haar, English hair.

Noun

haar n

1. (Sette Comuni) hair

References

• “haar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• “haar” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?r/
• Hyphenation: haar
• Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hez?i.

Pronoun

haar f

1. (personal) Third-person singular, feminine object pronoun: her

   (1) accusative personal pronoun, (2) dative personal pronoun

Inflection

Descendants

• Afrikaans: haar

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hez?z.

Determiner

haar (dependent possessive, independent possessive hare, contracted form 'r)

1. Third-person singular, feminine possessive adjective: her
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Inflection

Synonyms

• heur (archaic or dialectal variant)

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hez??.

Determiner

haar (dependent possessive, independent possive hare)

1. (archaic) Third-person plural possessive adjective: their

Usage notes

• Haar (“their”) was the normal Middle Dutch form for all genders in the plural. In modern Dutch, hun successively replaced haar in this function. Some writers of the 19th and early 20th century made a learned distinction, using hun as the masculine and neuter plural, but haar for the feminine in both singular and plural: mannen en hunne vrouwen (“men and their wives”) versus vrouwen en hare mannen (“women and their husbands”).

Synonyms

• (their): hun

Etymology 4

From Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Noun

haar n or c (plural haren, diminutive haartje n)

1. (uncountable) hair (collection of hairs)
2. (countable) hair (mammalian keratin filament)

Usage notes

• The noun is traditionally neuter in all senses. As a countable noun, it is now sometimes of common gender.

Derived terms

• behaard
• haarloos
• haarspoeling
• haarzeep
• harig
• hoofdhaar
• krulhaar
• ontharen
• snorhaar
• verharen

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a???

Verb

haar

1. singular imperative of haaren
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of haaren

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ár (“slaughter”), from Proto-Celtic *agrom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?ro- (“hunt”); compare Greek ???? (ágra, “hunt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??r/

Noun

haar m (genitive singular haar, plural haaryn)

1. slaughter

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

haar

1. Alternative form of hare (“hare”)

Semai

Alternative forms

• har

Pronoun

haar

1. we (you and I) (1st person dual pronoun, inclusive)

See also

References

Scots

Noun

haar (uncountable)

1. sea fog

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English harre, herre, from Old English heorra (“hinge; cardinal point”), from Proto-Germanic *herzô (“hinge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”). Cognate with Scots herre, harr, har (“hinge”), Dutch harre, her, har (“hinge”), Icelandic hjarri (“hinge”), Latin card? (“hinge”).

Alternative forms

• harre

Noun

har (plural hars)

1. (dialectal) A hinge.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

• hardy har har

Interjection

har

1. A sound of laughter, with a sarcastic connotation.

Anagrams

• Ahr, RHA, rah

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German har.

Adverb

har

1. (Uri) hither, here (to this place)

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.

Basque

Noun

har

1. worm, caterpillar

See also

• arr
• beldar
• zizare

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• haar (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German h?r, from Old High German h?r, from Proto-West Germanic *h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”). Cognate with German Haar, English hair.

Noun

har n

1. (Luserna, Tredici Comuni) hair

References

• “har” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h??]
• Rhymes: -a??r

Verb

har

1. present of have

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/
• Hyphenation: har
• Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

har f (plural harren)

1. (dated) hinge

   Synonym: scharnier

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

har f (plural harren, diminutive harretje n)

1. (dialectal, chiefly diminutive) gap, narrow opening (especially of doors, windows and hatches)

   Synonym: kier

Faroese

Adverb

har (not comparable)

1. there

Antonyms

• her

Related terms

• hagar (“thither”)
• haðani

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??/

Noun

har

1. h-prothesized form of ar

Karaim

Determiner

har

1. every
2. each

References

• dnathan.com

Koyra Chiini

Noun

har

1. man

References

• Jeffrey Heath, A Grammar of Koyra Chiini: The Songhay of Timbuktu

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

har

1. Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)

Etymology 2

Noun

har

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 3

Noun

har (plural hares)

1. Alternative form of hare (“hare”)

Etymology 4

Noun

har (plural haren)

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 5

Interjection

har

1. Alternative form of harou (a call of distress)

Etymology 6

Adjective

har

1. Alternative form of hor (“hoar”)

Etymology 7

Determiner

har

1. (chiefly West Midlands, Kent) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 8

Verb

har

1. Alternative form of heren (“to hear”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h???/

Verb

har

1. present of ha

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??r/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

har

1. present of ha

Occitan

Alternative forms

• faire
• hèser (Gascony)

Verb

har (Gascony)

1. to make

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 77.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Noun

h?r n

1. hair

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hâer
  • Dutch: haar

Further reading

• “h?r”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz, from Proto-Indo-European *key-, *koy-. Cognate with Old High German h?r (German hehr (“august, holy”)), Old Norse hárr (“grey”), Gothic ???????????????? (hais, “torch”), Old Saxon h?r. Non-Germanic cognates include Sanskrit ???? (ketu, “light, torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??r/, [h??r]

Adjective

h?r

1. grey-haired, old and grey, venerable

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hor
  • English: hoar
  • Scots: hare, hair

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognates include Old English h?r and Old High German h?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?r/

Adjective

h?r

1. honourable

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *h?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Compare Old Saxon h?r, Old English her, h?r, Old Norse hár.

Noun

h?r n

1. hair

Descendants

• Middle High German: h?r
  • Alemannic German: Härre

    Swabian: Hoar

    Walser: haar, hoar, hoor, hàre

  • Bavarian: hoor

    Cimbrian: har, haar

    Mòcheno: hor

  • Central Franconian: Hoor
  • German: Haar
  • Luxembourgish: Hoer
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Haar

  • Yiddish: ????? (hor)

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Noun

h?r n

1. hair

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: hår

Phalura

Etymology

From Urdu ??? (har), from Persian [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /har/

Determiner

har (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. every

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (kháris).

Noun

har m (plural haruri)

1. grace

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??r/

Verb

har

1. present tense of ha.

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ??? (har).

Determiner

har

1. each
2. every
3. any

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /har/

Determiner

har

1. her (third-person singular feminine possessive determiner)

Determiner

har

1. their (third-person plural possessive determiner)

   Synonym: harren

Pronoun

har

1. object of sy (“she”)

Pronoun

har

1. object of sy (“they”)