horo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 母衣 (horo, “cloak”).
Noun edit
horo (plural horos)
- (historical) A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horo f
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”). Compare French heure, Italian ora, Spanish hora, Romanian oară, German Uhr, Dutch uur, Welsh awr.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horo (accusative singular horon, plural horoj, accusative plural horojn)
- hour (period of 60 minutes)
- Estas dudek kvar horoj tage. ― There are twenty-four hours in a day.
- Estas la oka horo. ― It's eight o'clock. (literally, “It is the eighth hour.”)
- time (of day)
- Kioma horo estas? ― What time is it? (literally, “Which hour is it?”)
Hypernyms edit
- tempo (“time”)
Related terms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Probably an alteration of huora (or earlier hoora), possibly by association with an earlier dialectal horo (“crack, hole”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horo (colloquial, derogatory)
Declension edit
Inflection of horo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | horo | horot | ||
genitive | horon | horojen | ||
partitive | horoa | horoja | ||
illative | horoon | horoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | horo | horot | ||
accusative | nom. | horo | horot | |
gen. | horon | |||
genitive | horon | horojen | ||
partitive | horoa | horoja | ||
inessive | horossa | horoissa | ||
elative | horosta | horoista | ||
illative | horoon | horoihin | ||
adessive | horolla | horoilla | ||
ablative | horolta | horoilta | ||
allative | horolle | horoille | ||
essive | horona | horoina | ||
translative | horoksi | horoiksi | ||
abessive | horotta | horoitta | ||
instructive | — | horoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “horo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-04-05
Anagrams edit
Ido edit
Noun edit
horo (plural hori)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
horo
Old Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.
Noun edit
horo n
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “horo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.
Noun edit
horo n (genitive horowes)
- swampy soil
Yoruba edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun sense derives from ideophone sense, the root may be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɣó (“small”), which may link this word as a Doublet of owó (money)
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Ideophone edit
hóró
Noun edit
hóró
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun sense derives from ideophone sense
Pronunciation edit
Ideophone edit
horo
Noun edit
horo
Etymology 3 edit
Noun sense derives from ideophone sense
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hòrò
Derived terms edit
- hòrò imú (“nostril”)
Related terms edit
- ihò (“hole”)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
horó