hoarse

English

Etymology

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

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 [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], 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)

  Egyptian Arabic: مبحوب‎ (mabḥūb)

• 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), atono (it)
• Latin: raucus
• Luxembourgish: hees
• Maori: whango
• Middle English: hos
• Navajo: bizhítsoh
• Norman: râpeux
• Norwegian: hes (no)
• Polish: ochrypły (pl) m
• Portuguese: rouco (pt) m, rouca (pt) f
• Romanian: răgușit (ro) m or n
• Russian: хри́плый (ru) (xríplyj), охри́пший (ru) (oxrípšij)
• Slovene: hripav (sl)
• Spanish: ronco (es), afónico (es)
• Vietnamese: khàn (vi)
• Yiddish: הייזעריק‎ (heyzerik)

Anagrams

• ahorse, ashore, hearos, shoare