hectare

See also: hectaré

English

Alternative forms

• hektare (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.tɛə/, /ˈhɛk.tɑː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.tɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhektaː/, /ˈhektɛː/

Noun

hectare (plural hectares)

1. A unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.
   • 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:

     With careful planning almost anyone can turn the dream of owning a small farm or a few hectares of country land into a reality.

   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[3], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.

Synonyms

• (SI unit): (rare) square hectometre

Derived terms

• global hectare

Translations

unit of surface area

• Arabic: هِكْتَار m (hiktār)
• Armenian: հեկտար (hy) (hektar)
• Bulgarian: хекта́р m (hektár)
• Catalan: hectàrea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公頃／公顷 (zh) (gōngqǐng)

• Czech: hektar (cs) m
• Dutch: hectare (nl), bunder (nl)
• Esperanto: hektaro (eo)
• Finnish: hehtaari (fi)
• French: hectare (fr) m
• Galician: hectárea (gl) f
• Georgian: ჰექტარი (hekṭari)
• German: Hektar (de) n
• Greek: εκτάριο (el) n (ektário)
• Hungarian: hektár (hu)
• Icelandic: hektari (is) m
• Ido: hektaro (io)
• Indonesian: hektare (id)
• Irish: heicteár m
• Japanese: ヘクタール (ja) (hekutāru), ㌶ (ja) (hekutāru) (symbol)
• Khmer: ហិកតា (hektaa)
• Korean: 헥타르 (ko) (hektareu)
• Lithuanian: hektaras m
• Maori: heketea
• Occitan: ectara f
• Plautdietsch: Hekta m
• Polish: hektar (pl) m
• Portuguese: hectare (pt) m
• Romanian: hectar (ro) n
• Russian: гекта́р (ru) m (gektár), га (ru) m (ga) (abbreviation)
• Scottish Gaelic: heactair m
• Slovak: hektár (sk) m
• Spanish: hectárea (es) f
• Swahili: hekta (sw)
• Swedish: hektar (sv)
• Tagalog: ektarya
• Turkish: hektar (tr)
• Ukrainian: гекта́р m (hektár), га (uk) m (ha) (abbreviation)
• Vietnamese: héc-ta (vi)
• Yoruba: hẹ́kítà

See also

• acre
• Not to be confused with hector.

Anagrams

• cheater, rechate, recheat, reteach, teacher

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare. Equivalent to hecto- +‎ are.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɛkˈtaː.rə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: hec‧ta‧re
• Rhymes: -aːrə

Noun

hectare f (plural hectaren or hectares, diminutive hectaretje n)

1. hectare

Synonyms

• ha

Synonyms

• (dialectal) bunder (symbol b)

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: èktar
• → Indonesian: hektare
• → Papiamentu: hèktar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.taʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare

Verb

hectare

1. inflection of hectarer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “hectare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French hectare.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ekˈta.ɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ekˈta.ɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ekˈta.ɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛˈkta.ɾɨ/

• Hyphenation: hec‧ta‧re

Noun

hectare m (plural hectares)

1. hectare (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hekˈtare]

Noun

hectare n

1. indefinite plural of hectar