harr

See also: hárr and Harr

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

harr (plural harrs)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A sea mist
   • 1848, William Davidson, “Observations on the Climate of Largs”, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal‎^[2], volume 69, "Arran", pages 39-40:

     Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days.

   • 1890, Sarah Tytler, “An Easterly Harr”, in Pot pourri of gifts literary and artistic‎^[3], page 79:

     The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills.

   • 2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems‎^[4], →ISBN, page 69:

     The eye rubs faintly in the fell fog, is misled by hill mist the high front coming with the Atlantic storm or the harr on the North Sea roke when there's even no moon and no star tempting to say we see him as often as ..... aurora ...

2. (Scotland) A wind from the east
   • 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, a Poem‎^[5], 1838 Chambers ed. edition, page 8:

     For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr

Usage notes

• Fog sense often used in British English literature

Alternative forms

• (mist): har, haar

References

• 1880, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, page 489
• 1961, edited by Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect ..., Vol. 3, page 5

  A northern harr Brings fine weather from far'; n.Yks.* e.Yks. MARSHALL Rur. Econ. ... The harr was very heavy in the marshes this mornin' (THR). 2.

• 2005, Bill Griffiths, A Dictionary of North East Dialect - page 80

  ... "hare or harr - a mist or thick fog" Brockett Newc & Nth 1829; "harr - a strong fog or wet mist, almost verging on a drizzle" Atkinson Cleve 1868;

Etymology 2

See English har.

Noun

harr (plural harrs)

1. (carpentry) The stile that bears the hinges of a gate.
   • 1987, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, “Gates and Rough Fencing”, in The Handyman's Book: Tools, Materials and Processes Employed in Woodworking‎^[6], →ISBN, page 375:

     One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr.

Anagrams

• rrah

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skarna, from *skera. Cognate with Gothic us-skarjan (“to tear out”), Lithuanian skiriù. More at shqerr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /har/

Verb

harr (first-person singular past tense harra, participle harrë)

1. to weed (out), prune, rid (of branches)

Derived terms

• tëharr
• harroj

Related terms

• herr

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Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German hera. Cognate with German her.

Adverb

harr

1. (Uri) to here, hither

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 12.

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

harr

1. singular imperative of harren

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Low German

Verb

harr

1. first-person singular past of hebben

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

harr m (definite singular harren, indefinite plural harrer, definite plural harrene)

1. (zoology) grayling, Thymallus thymallus

References

• “harr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “harr” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

harr m (definite singular harren, indefinite plural harrar, definite plural harrane)

1. (zoology) grayling, Thymallus thymallus

References

• “harr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Noun

harr c

1. grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

Declension

Declension of harr
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	harr	harren	harrar	harrarna
Genitive	harrs	harrens	harrars	harrarnas

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse herri, herra, from Old Saxon hērro, from Old High German hēriro, hērro, the comparative form of hēr (“noble, venerable”) (German hehr), by analogy with Latin senior (“elder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hàrː], [hæ̀rː]

  Rhymes: -àrː, -æ̀rː

Noun

harr m

1. master, lord, ruler

Derived terms

• harrkar (“gentleman; good, excellent man”)
• harrstu (“hall”)

See also

• öfwerhejt

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hǫrr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hárː], [hǽrː]

  Rhymes: -árː, -ǽrː

Noun

harr m

1. grayling (Thymallus thymallus)

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Yola

Etymology

From Middle English herre (“hinge”), from Old English heorra, from Proto-Germanic *herzô.

Noun

harr

1. The shank of a button.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 44