different between hair vs angora

English

Etymology

From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hâr, IPA^(key): /h??/, /h??/, /h??/
• (US, Canada, Ireland) IPA^(key): /h?(?)?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /he?/
  • (Victoria) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [hi?]
• Homophone: hare
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• (General New Zealand) Homophones: here (cheer–chair merger), air, heir (cheer–chair merger and H-dropping)

Noun

hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)

1. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

   • Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs.

   • And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
2. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:

     Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.

3. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
4. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

5. (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
6. (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Second Nun's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:

     She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire.
7. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

8. (slang, uncountable) complexity; difficulty; quality of being hairy
   • Barack Obama

     Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.

Usage notes

• The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb.

• Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

Derived terms

Related terms

• depilatory

Translations

Verb

hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)

1. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
2. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
3. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
4. To string the bow for a violin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hari, Hira, Ihar, Riha, riah

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??/

Verb

hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Noun

hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hair (plural haires)

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 2

Noun

hair (plural haires or hairen)

1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 3

Adjective

hair

1. Alternative form of hor (“hoar”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hair

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• hadir, ha?ir, haïr

Etymology

From Frankish *hattjan.

Verb

hair

1. to hate

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. First person singular present hez and present subjunctives are inherited from Frankish with regular sound changes of *-ttj- > -z/c-. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• haïne

Descendants

• Middle French: haïr
  • French: haïr
• Norman: haï

English

Etymology

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ánkura, “anchor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

angora (plural angoras)

1. An angora cat.
2. a goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair.
3. a rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus)
4. (uncountable) The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles.
5. (uncountable) The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aragon, Arango, Argoan, arango, organa

Esperanto

Etymology

angoro +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an??ora/
• Hyphenation: an?go?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

angora (accusative singular angoran, plural angoraj, accusative plural angorajn)

1. distressed, anguished, of distress, of anguish
   • (Can we date this quote?), Solomon Cins (translator), Kiel ?talo estis hardata (How the Steel Was Tempered / ??? ?????????? ?????) by Nikolai Ostrovsky, Book 2, Chapter 7,

     Li ekamis tiun junan bol?evikon, neniam angoran, ?iam vivplenan, kun bolanta energio, kiu tiel frue perdis sian sanon.

     He had grown to love the young Bolshevik, who, never distressed, always full of life and bubbling with energy, had lost his health at such an early age.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Elena Zaja, Anta?parolo (Preface), in Fajron sentas mi interne by Ulrich Matthias,

     Tio ?ermigas ?e ni la esperon, ke la abismo disiganta ilin de aliaj ne etendi?as fatale, la angorajn nubojn eblas forblovi spite al la sorto per la fervoro kaj forta volo [...]

     This sparked in us the hope that the chasm that separated them from others was not fatally wide, that the clouds of anguish could be blown away, in spite of fate, by fervour and strong will

Finnish

Etymology

< Turkish Angora, the former name of Turkish capital Ankara

Noun

angora

1. angora (hair of angora rabbit)

Declension

Synonyms

• angoravilla

Compounds

• angorakani
• angorakaniini
• angorakissa
• angoralanka
• angorapusero
• angoravilla
• angoravuohi

French

Etymology

From Angora, obsolete form of Ankara, the name of the capital of Turkey.

Noun

angora m (plural angora)

1. angora (all senses)

Further reading

• “angora” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).