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See also: Haar and hår

English

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Etymology

Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”).

Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”).

Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).

Pronunciation

Noun

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

  1. (especially Northern England, Scotland) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
    • 2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN:
      The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.
  2. the third month of the Punjabi calendar.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “haar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “haar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “haar, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries: “-”.
  4. ^ “haar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.

Pronoun

haar (subject sy)

  1. her (object)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns
subjective objective possessive determiner possessive pronoun
singular 1st ek my myne
2nd jy jou joune
2nd, formal u u s’n
3rd, masc hy hom sy syne
3rd, fem sy haar hare
3rd, neut dit sy syne
plural 1st ons ons s’n
2nd julle / jul1 julle s’n
3rd hulle / hul1 hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Etymology 2

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz.

Determiner

haar

  1. her

Etymology 3

From Dutch haar, from Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Noun

haar (plural hare)

  1. hair

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

haar n

  1. (Formazza, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person's head)

References

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German hār, from Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”). Cognate with German Haar, English hair.

Noun

haar n

  1. (Sette Comuni) hair
    's haar stéet bòol gastréelt. ― Hair looks good combed.

References

  • “haar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.

Pronoun

haar f

  1. (personal) Third-person singular, feminine object pronoun: her
    Ik zeg het tegen haar (1), maar je kunt haar (2) beter nog een mailtje sturen.
    I’ll mention it to her, but you’d better send her a mail as well.
    (1) accusative personal pronoun, (2) dative personal pronoun
Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 		5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: haar

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hira, from Proto-Germanic *hezōz.

Determiner

haar (dependent possessive, independent possessive hare, contracted form 'r)

  1. Third-person singular, feminine possessive adjective: her
    Zij is haar sleutels vergeten. ― She forgot her keys.
    • Wikipedia, Dood van Diana Frances Spencer
      Op 31 augustus 1997 overleed Diana Frances Spencer, Prinses van Wales bij een auto-ongeluk in een tunnel bij de Pont de l'Alma in Parijs, samen met haar vriend Dodi Al-Fayed en hun chauffeur. — On August 31, 1997, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, died in a car accident in a tunnel by the Pont de l'Alma in Paris, together with her friend Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver.
Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 		5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.
Synonyms
  • heur (archaic or dialectal variant)
Descendants

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch haer, from Old Dutch hiro, from Proto-Germanic *hezǫ̂.

Determiner

haar (dependent possessive, independent possessive hare)

  1. (archaic) Third-person plural possessive adjective: their
Usage notes
  • Haar (“their”) was the normal Middle Dutch form for all genders in the plural. In modern Dutch, hun successively replaced haar in this function. Some writers of the 19th and early 20th century made a learned distinction, using hun as the masculine and neuter plural, but haar for the feminine in both singular and plural: mannen en hunne vrouwen (“men and their wives”) versus vrouwen en hare mannen (“women and their husbands”).
Synonyms

Etymology 4

From Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Noun

haar n or c (plural haren, diminutive haartje n)

  1. (uncountable) hair (collection of hairs)
  2. (countable) hair (mammalian keratin filament)
  3. (countable) trichome (hair-like growth on a plant)
    Synonym: trichoom
  4. a bit, minute quantity
Usage notes
  • The noun is traditionally neuter in all senses. As a countable noun, it is now sometimes of common gender.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants

East Central German

Etymology

From Old High German hera. Cognate to German Low German her.

Adverb

haar

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
  2. (Erzgebirgisch) ago

Derived terms

Further reading

  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:

German

Pronunciation

Verb

haar

  1. singular imperative of haaren
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of haaren

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ár (“slaughter”), from Proto-Celtic *agrom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- (“hunt”); compare Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “hunt”).

Pronunciation

Noun

haar m (genitive singular haar, plural haaryn)

  1. slaughter

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
haar unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Noun

haar

  1. Alternative form of hare (“hare”)

Scots

Noun

haar (uncountable)

  1. sea fog

Semai

Alternative forms

Pronoun

haar

  1. we (you and I) (1st person dual pronoun, inclusive)

See also

Semai personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person èng jaar (exclusive)
haar (inclusive) 		jiiq (exclusive)
hiiq (inclusive)
2nd person hèq / hèèq je'oot, jerkeeq, kééq keeq, ngkeeq / ngkééq
3rd person ijii, kééq / keeq ubay / ubaay et, ennaay, mambééq

References

  1. ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English haar, from Old English hara, from Proto-West Germanic *hasō.

Pronunciation

Noun

haar

  1. hare
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 10:
      Van a vierd durst a bargher an a haar galshied too,
      When a weasel crossed the road, and a hare gazed at me too,

Etymology 2

From Middle English hēr, from Old English hēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adverb

haar

  1. here
    • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 1:
      Haar wee bee dhree yola mydes,
      Here we are three old maids,

Etymology 3

From Middle English hair, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār.

Pronunciation

Noun

haar

  1. hair
    • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 10:
      Aal haar, an wi eyen lik torches o tar?"
      "All hair, and with eyes like torches of tar,"

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, pages 129, 131 & 132
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