See also: Haar and hår

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Etymology edit

Attested since the late 17th century,[1][2] alongside Scots haar (cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist).[3]

Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (cold wind) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (windy; foggy, misty), Saterland Frisian harig (misty).[3][4]

Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar,[2] or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (hoary).[1]

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haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

  1. (especially Northern England, Scotland) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
    • 2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN:
      The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.
  2. the third month of the Punjabi calendar.

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 haar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 haar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. 3.0 3.1 haar, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries: “-”.
  4. ^ haar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.

Pronoun edit

haar (subject sy)

  1. her (object)

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Etymology 2 edit

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz.

Determiner edit

haar

  1. her

Etymology 3 edit

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Noun edit

haar (plural hare)

  1. hair

Alemannic German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

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haar n

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

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Cimbrian edit

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  • har (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German hār, from Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (hair). Cognate with German Haar, English hair.

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haar n

  1. (Sette Comuni) hair
    's haar stéet bòol gastréelt.Hair looks good combed.

References edit

  • “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
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Etymology 1 edit

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

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haar f

  1. (personal) Third-person singular, feminine object pronoun: her
    Ik zeg het tegen haar (1), maar je kunt haar (2) beter nog een mailtje sturen.
    I’ll mention it to her, but you’d better send her a mail as well.
    (1) accusative personal pronoun, (2) dative personal pronoun
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  • Afrikaans: haar

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz.

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

  1. Third-person singular, feminine possessive adjective: her
    Zij is haar sleutels vergeten.She forgot her keys.
    • 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.
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  • heur (archaic or dialectal variant)
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Etymology 3 edit

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

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haar (dependent possessive, independent possessive hare)

  1. (archaic) Third-person plural possessive adjective: their
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  • 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”).
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Etymology 4 edit

From Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

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

  1. (uncountable) hair (collection of hairs)
  2. (countable) hair (mammalian keratin filament)
  3. (countable) trichome (hair-like growth on a plant)
    Synonym: trichoom
  4. a bit, minute quantity
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  • The noun is traditionally neuter in all senses. As a countable noun, it is now sometimes of common gender.
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East Central German edit

Etymology edit

From Old High German hera. Cognate to German Low German her.

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haar

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
  2. (Erzgebirgisch) ago

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Further reading edit

  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:

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haar

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

Manx edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish ár (slaughter), from Proto-Celtic *agrom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- (hunt); compare Greek ἄγρα (ágra, hunt).

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haar m (genitive singular haar, plural haaryn)

  1. slaughter

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
haar unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English edit

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haar

  1. Alternative form of hare (hare)

Scots edit

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haar (uncountable)

  1. sea fog

Semai edit

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haar[1]

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

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  1. ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Yola edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English haar, from Old English hara, from Proto-West Germanic *hasō.

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Noun edit

haar

  1. hare
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 10:
      Van a vierd durst a bargher an a haar galshied too,
      When a weasel crossed the road, and a hare gazed at me too,

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English hēr, from Old English hēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr.

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haar

  1. here
    • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 1:
      Haar wee bee dhree yola mydes,
      Here we are three old maids,

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle English hair, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār.

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haar

  1. hair
    • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 10:
      Aal haar, an wi eyen lik torches o tar?"
      "All hair, and with eyes like torches of tar,"

References edit

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129, 131 & 132