different between haar vs hoar

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
   • Wikipedia, Dood van Diana Frances Spencer

     Op 31 augustus 1997 overleed Diana Frances Spencer, Prinses van Wales bij een auto-ongeluk in een tunnel bij de Pont de l'Alma in Parijs, samen met haar vriend Dodi Al-Fayed en hun chauffeur. — On August 31, 1997, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, died in a car accident in a tunnel by the Pont de l'Alma in Paris, together with her friend Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver.

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

Etymology

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English h?r (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?eh?- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian ?????? (séryj, “grey”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô, IPA^(key): /h??/
• (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA^(key): /h??/ *
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: h?r, IPA^(key): /ho(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: whore

Noun

hoar

1. A white or greyish-white colour.

2. Hoariness; antiquity.

Synonyms

• (hoariness): agedness, ancientness, oldhood; see also Thesaurus:oldness

Translations

Adjective

hoar (not comparable)

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
   • 1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire

     And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
     Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,

     Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,

     Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,

     Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

Derived terms

• hoarfrost
• hoary
• hoared

Related terms

• haar
• horehound

Verb

hoar (third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Haro, Hora, ROAH, haor, haro, hora, oh ar

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Härre, haar, hoor, hàre

Etymology

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

Noun

hoar n

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

References

• “hoar” 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

Swedish

Noun

hoar

1. indefinite plural of ho

Verb

hoar

1. present tense of hoa.

Anagrams

• hora