hoarse

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English

Etymology

From Middle English hors or hos, from Old Norse háss(West Norse) and heiss(East Norse) (whence the Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes) from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, akin to Old English hās.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: hōrs, IPA^(key): /hɔɹs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɔːs/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹs/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəs/

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• Homophone: horse (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

Adjective

hoarse (comparative hoarser, superlative hoarsest)

1. Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     I am old and my voice is hoarse […]

Derived terms

• hoarsely
• hoarseness

Translations

afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice

• Arabic: مَبْحُوح‎ (mabḥūḥ)
• Bulgarian: дрезгав (bg) (drezgav), пресипнал (bg) (presipnal), прегракнал (bg) (pregraknal)
• Catalan: ronc (ca), rogallós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗啞 (zh), 粗哑 (zh) (cūyǎ), 沙啞 (zh), 沙哑 (zh) (shāyǎ), 嘶啞 (zh), 嘶哑 (zh) (sīyǎ)

• Czech: chraptivý m
• Dutch: schor (nl)
• Esperanto: raŭka
• Estonian: kähe
• Finnish: käheä (1)
• French: enroué (fr)
• German: heiser (de)
• Greek: βραχνός (el) (vrachnós)
• Hungarian: rekedt (hu)

• Icelandic: hás (is); rámur
• Italian: rauco (it)
• Latin: raucus
• Luxembourgish: hees
• Maori: whango
• Navajo: bizhítsoh
• Norman: râpeux
• Norwegian: hes (no)
• Polish: ochrypły (pl) m
• Portuguese: rouco m, rouca (pt) f
• Romanian: răgușit (ro) m, n
• Russian: хри́плый (ru) (xríplyj), охри́пший (ru) (oxrípšij)
• Slovene: hripav (sl)
• Spanish: ronco (es), afónico (es)

Anagrams

• ahorse, ashore, hearos, shoare