hora

See also: Hora, hóra, horă, höra, and høra

English

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה‎ (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hóre) and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).

Noun

hora (plural horas)

1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Translations

circle dance

• Bulgarian: хоро (bg) (horo)
• Finnish: hora (fi)
• Hebrew: הוֹרָה‎ (he) f (hóra)
• Hungarian: hóra (hu)
• Macedonian: оро (oro)
• Persian: پنزه‎ (fa) (panze)
• Polish: hora (pl) f

• Romanian: horă (ro)
• Russian: хо́ра (ru) f (xóra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коло n, оро n

  Roman: kolo (sh) n, oro (sh) n

• Turkish: hora (tr)
• Yiddish: האָרע‎ f (hore), הורה‎ f (hore)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”).

Noun

hora (uncountable)

1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

References

Anagrams

• Haro, Hoar, ROAH, haor, haro, hoar, oh ar

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Noun

hora m (plural hores)

1. hour
2. time

   ¿Qué hora ye?

   What time is it?

3. o'clock

   les 19.00 hores

   7:00 pm

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/

Noun

hora f (plural hores)

1. hour (sixty minutes)
2. time (the moment as indicated by a clock)

   Quina hora és?

   What time is it?

3. time (the appropriate hour to do something)

Derived terms

• a alta hora
• a hora baixa
• a hora foscant
• bona hora
• d'hora
• fora d'hora
• gran hora de dia
• hora extra
• hora punta
• hora zero

 

Further reading

• “hora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦora/

• audio

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Noun

hora f

1. mountain
2. (colloquial) a lot, tons

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	hora	hory
genitive	hory	hor
dative	hoře	horám
accusative	horu	hory
vocative	horo	hory
locative	hoře	horách
instrumental	horou	horami

Derived terms

• horal m
• horolezec m

Related terms

• horní
• náhorní
• horník m
• podhůří

Further reading

• hora in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• hora in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish hora

Noun

hora

1. hour.

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ros (“dear, loved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːɹa/
• Rhymes: -oːɹa

Noun

hora f (genitive singular horu, plural horur)

1. (vulgar) whore, (female) prostitute
2. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) slut
3. (nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk

Declension

Declension of hora
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hora	horan	horur	horurnar
accusative	horu	horuna	horur	horurnar
dative	horu	horuni	horum	horunum
genitive	horu	horunnar	hora	horanna

Synonyms

• (prostitute): skøkja f
• (tusk, cusk): brosma f

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɐ], [ˈoɾɐ]

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

1. hour
2. time of the day

   ¿Que hora é? — "What time is it?

3. regular or designated time for doing something

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Interlingua

Noun

hora (plural horas)

1. hour

Derived terms

• libro de horas Book of hours

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Italian

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

1. Obsolete form of ora.

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Japanese

Romanization

hora

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほら

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhoː.ra/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈoː.ra]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

1. hour
2. time
   • Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI) by Publius Ovidius Naso

     Dum loquor, hora fugit.

     Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.

3. o'clock
4. season; time of year
5. vocative singular of hōra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hōra	hōrae
Genitive	hōrae	hōrārum
Dative	hōrae	hōrīs
Accusative	hōram	hōrās
Ablative	hōrā	hōrīs
Vocative	hōra	hōrae

Descendants

• → Albanian: herë, orë
• Aromanian: oarã
• Asturian: hora
• Catalan: hora
• Corsican: ora
• Dalmatian: aura
• → Dutch: uur
• → English: hour
• French: heure
• Friulian: ore
• Galician: hora
• → German: Uhr
• → Hungarian: óra
• Istriot: ura
• Italian: ora
• Ladin: ora, ëura
• → Navajo: óola

• Norman: heuthe
• Occitan: ora
• → Old Irish: úar
  • Irish: uair
• → Plautdietsch: ua
• Portuguese: hora, ora
• Romanian: oară, oră
• Romansch: ura, oura
• Sardinian: òra
• Sicilian: ora, uora
• Spanish: hora
• → Telugu: హోర (hōra)
• Venetian: óra
• Walloon: eure
• → Welsh: awr

Noun

hōrā f

1. ablative singular of hōra
   • From the prayer Ave Maria (Hail Mary)

     Et in hora mortis nostrae.

     And in the hour of our death.

References

• hora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • what time is it: quota hora est?
    
  • it is the third hour (= 9 A.M.: tertia hora est
    
  • at the time agreed on: ad horam compositam
    
• hora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hora in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Middle English

Determiner

hora

1. (chiefly early and West Midland dialectal) Alternative form of here (“their”)

References

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• horen

Noun

hora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of hore

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hora f

1. definite singular of hore

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ.

Noun

hōra f

1. whore, adulteress

Declension

Declension of hōra (on-stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hōra	hōran	hōru(r), -o(r)	hōruna(r), -ona(r)
accusative	hōru, -o	hōruna, -ona	hōru(r), -o(r)	hōruna(r), -ona(r)
dative	hōru, -o	hōrunni, -onne	hōrum, -om	hōrumin, -omen
genitive	hōru, -o	hōrunna(r), -onna(r)	hōra	hōranna

Descendants

• Swedish: hora

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

Cognate with Galician hora, Spanish hora, Catalan hora, Occitan ora, French heure, Italian ora and Romanian oară.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾɐ/
• Homophone: ora
• Hyphenation: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

2. hour (period of sixty minutes)

   Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.

   There are twenty-four hours in a day.

4. time (point in time)

   Alguma hora eu passo aí.

   Some time I’ll hop over there.

   Que horas são?

   What time is it?

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:hora.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔra/

• Audio

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Noun

hora f (genitive singular hory, nominative plural hory, genitive plural hôr, declension pattern of žena)

1. mountain

Declension

Declension of hora

	singular	plural
nominative	hora	hory
genitive	hory	hôr
dative	hore	horám
accusative	horu	hory
locative	hore	horách
instrumental	horou	horami

Derived terms

• horár
• horička
• horský
• hôrka
• hôrny

Further reading

• hora in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾa/

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

1. hour (a time period of sixty minutes)

   Hay veinticuatro horas por el día.

   There are twenty-four hours in a day.

2. time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device)

   ¿Qué hora es?

   What time is it?

   Ya es hora de ir.

   It's time to go.

Derived terms

• a buena hora
• altas horas
• a toda hora
• a todas horas
• a última hora
• deshora
• enhorabuena
• enhoramala
• entre horas
• hora de verdad
• hora legal
• hora pico
• hora punta
• ya era hora

 

Related terms

• ahora
• horario
• horóscopo

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: oras

Further reading

• “hora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kāro-, *keh₂ro- (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

hora c

1. whore

Declension

Declension of hora
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hora	horan	horor	hororna
Genitive	horas	horans	horors	horornas

Verb

hora

1. whore

Conjugation

Conjugation of hora (weak)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	hora	—
Present tense	horar	—
Past tense	horade	—
Supine	horat	—
Imperative	hora	—
Present participle	horande
Past participle	—

Related terms

• hor
• horbock
• horeri
• horig
• horkarl