half-hour

See also: half hour

English edit

half- +‎ hour

half-hour (plural half-hours)

A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
- 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 121:
  The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
  Used in both senses.

period

Arabic: نِصْف سَاعَة (niṣf sāʕa)
Belarusian: паўгадзі́ны (paŭhadzíny)
Burmese: နာရီဝက် (my) (nariwak)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 半小時／半小时 (zh) (bànxiǎoshí)
Czech: půlhodina (cs) f
Dutch: halfuur (nl) n
Esperanto: duonhoro
Finnish: puoli tuntia, puolituntinen
French: demi-heure (fr) f
German: halbe Stunde f
Greek: μισάωρο (el) n (misáoro), ημίωρο (el) n (imíoro)
Ancient Greek: ἡμιώριον n (hēmiṓrion)
Icelandic: hálftími m
Irish: leathuair
Italian: mezz'ora (it) f
Japanese: 半時間 (ja) (はんじかん, hanjikan)
Korean: 반시간(半時間) (bansigan)
Latin: sēmihōra f
Lithuanian: pusvalanduko
Norman: démi-heuthe f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: halvtime m

Nynorsk: halvtime m
Old English: healf tīd f
Polish: pół godziny
Portuguese: meia hora f
Russian: полчаса́ (ru) n pl (polčasá)
Swedish: halvtimme (sv) c, halvtimma (sv) c
Ukrainian: півгоди́ни (pivhodýny)

time