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English
Etymology
From Middle English horn , horne , from Old English horn , from Proto-West Germanic *horn , from Proto-Germanic *hurną . Compare West Frisian hoarn , Dutch hoorn , Low German Hoorn , horn , German Horn , Danish and Swedish horn , Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 ( haurn ) .
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m , from *ḱerh₂- ( “ head, horn ” ) . Compare Breton kern ( “ horn ” ) , Latin cornū , Ancient Greek κέρας ( kéras ) , Proto-Slavic *sьrna , Old Church Slavonic сьрна ( sĭrna , “ roedeer ” ) , Hittite ( surna , “ horn ” ) , Persian سر ( sar ) , Sanskrit शृङ्ग ( śṛṅga , “ horn ” ) .
( telephone ) : From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
Pronunciation
Noun
horn (countable and uncountable , plural horns )
A man playing a horn .
This sheep has horns .
( countable , zootomy ) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals , usually paired .
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal , the eyestalk of a snail , the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros , or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
An antler .
( uncountable ) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Synonym: keratin
an umbrella with a handle made of horn
A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink , ink , gunpowder , etc.
1775 , William Mason , The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. :horns of mead and ale
2017 , Neil Gaiman , Norse Mythology , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 143 :I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil .
One of the two corners of a crescent , particularly of the crescent moon
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson , “Winter”, in The Seasons , London: A Millar , and sold by Thomas Cadell , , published 1768 , →OCLC , page 169 , lines 123–125 :hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns .
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
( architecture ) The Ionic volute .
( nautical ) The outer end of a crosstree ; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff , boom , etc.
( carpentry ) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane .
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
( countable ) Any of several musical wind instruments .
( countable , music ) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
hunting horn
( countable , automotive ) A loud alarm , especially one on a motor vehicle.
Synonyms: hooter , klaxon
( chiefly sports ) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
( countable ) A conical device used to direct waves .
Synonym: funnel
antenna horn
loudspeaker horn
( informal , music , countable ) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
( slang , countable ) A telephone .
Synonyms: blower ( UK ) , dog and bone ( Cockney rhyming slang ) , phone
Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
( vulgar , slang , with definite article) An erection of the penis.
Synonyms: boner ( US ) , hard-on , stiffy
( countable , geography ) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
Synonym: peninsula
to navigate around the horn
1902 , John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide :But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.
( countable ) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese , thus forming ơ and ư .
( botany ) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias ).
( military ) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
Usage notes
When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either hunting horn or French horn , depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as English horn or basset horn .
Translations
growth on the heads of certain animals
Afar: gaysa
Afrikaans: horing (af)
Akkadian: 𒋛 ( qarnu /si/ )
Aklanon: sungay
Albanian: bri (sq) m
Amharic: ቀንድ ( ḳänd )
Angor: fufung
Arabic: قَرْن (ar) m ( qarn )
Egyptian Arabic: قرن m ( ʔarn )
Hijazi Arabic: قرن m ( garn )
Moroccan Arabic: قرن m ( gərn )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܪܢܐ f ( qarnā )
Armenian: եղջյուր (hy) ( eġǰyur ) , պոզ (hy) ( poz ) , կոտոշ (hy) ( kotoš )
Old Armenian: եղջիւր ( ełǰiwr )
Aromanian: cornu n
Assamese: শিং ( xiṅ )
Asturian: cuernu (ast) m
Atong (India): korong
Azerbaijani: buynuz (az)
Bahnar: ake , hơke
Bashkir: мөгөҙ ( mögöź )
Basque: adar
Bau Bidayuh: tanuk
Belarusian: рог m ( roh )
Bengali: শিঙা (bn) ( śiṅa )
Breton: korn (br) m
Bulgarian: рог (bg) m ( rog )
Burmese: ချို (my) ( hkyui ) , ဦးချို (my) ( u:hkyui )
Buryat: эбэр ( eber )
Carpathian Rusyn: рог m ( roh )
Catalan: banya (ca) f
Cebuano: sungay
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵙⴽ ( isk )
Central Melanau: taduok
Chamicuro: c̈hepa
Chechen: маӏа ( maˀa )
Chepang: रोङः
Chinese:
Dungan: гә ( gə ) , җүә ( žüə )
Mandarin: 角 (zh) ( jiǎo )
Chuvash: мӑйрака ( măjrak̬a )
Cornish: korn m
Crimean Tatar: müyüz
Czech: roh (cs) m
Dalmatian: cuarno m , cuarn
Danish: horn (da) n
Dolgan: муос
Dutch: hoorn (nl) m
Egyptian: (ꜥb )
Erzya: сюро ( śuro )
Esperanto: korno (eo)
Estonian: sarv (et)
Evenki: ие ( ije )
Faroese: horn (fo) n
Fataluku: horu
Finnish: sarvi (fi)
French: corne (fr) f
Friulian: cuar m
Galician: corno (gl) m , corna (gl) f , hasta (gl) f
Georgian: რქა (ka) ( rka )
German: Horn (de) n
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 n ( haurn )
Greek: κέρατο (el) n ( kérato )
Ancient: κέρας n ( kéras )
Greenlandic: nassuk
Guaraní: tatĩ
Haitian Creole: kòn
Hausa: ƙaho m
Hawaiian: hao , kiwi ( of land quadrupeds ) , kākala ( of fish, caterpillars )
Hebrew: קֶרֶן (he) f ( kéren )
Higaonon: sungay
Hindi: सींग (hi) m ( sīṅg ) , खाँग (hi) m ( khāṅg ) , खँगुवा m ( khaṅguvā ) , खगुवा (hi) m ( khaguvā ) , खँगवा (hi) m ( khaṅgvā ) , शाख (hi) m ( śākh ) , सिंग (hi) m ( siṅg ) , शृंग (hi) m ( śŕṅg )
Hungarian: szarv (hu)
Icelandic: horn (is) n
Indonesian: tanduk (id)
Ingrian: sarvi
Ingush: муӏ ( muˀ )
Irish: adharc f
Istriot: cuorno m
Italian: corno (it) m
Japanese: 角 (ja) ( つの, tsuno )
Javanese: sungu (jv)
Jeju: 뿔 ( ppul )
Jingpho: nrung
Juǀ'hoan: ǃhú
Kaingang: nĩka
Kalmyk: өвр ( övr )
Kashubian: róg m
Kazakh: мүйіз ( müiız )
Khasi: reng
Khmer: ស្នែង (km) ( snaeng )
Kikuyu: rũhĩa class 11
Kimaragang: sungu
Komi-Zyrian: сюр ( śur )
Korean: 뿔 (ko) ( ppul )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: stirî (ku) , şax (ku) m
Kyrgyz: мүйүз (ky) ( müyüz )
Lao: ເຂົາ (lo) ( khao ) , ນໍ ( nǭ )
Latgalian: rogs
Latin: cornū (la) n
Latvian: rags (lv) m
Lautu Chin: kiy
Lithuanian: ragas (lt) m
Lokono: koa
Luhya: epembe
Macedonian: рог m ( rog )
Makasae: soru
Malagasy: tandroka (mg)
Malay: tanduk (ms)
Maltese: qarn m
Manchu: ᡠᡳᡥᡝ ( uihe )
Maori: maire , pihi
Mari:
Eastern Mari: сюр ( sur )
Moksha: сюра ( śura )
Mon: ဂြၚ်
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: эвэр (mn) ( ever )
Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵙⴽⵜ f ( tiskt )
Nanai: хуе ( huje )
Navajo: adeeʼ
Northern Sami: čoarvi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: horn (no) n
Nynorsk: horn n
Nottoway-Meherrin: osherag
Occitan: bana (oc) f
Odia: ଶିଙ୍ଗ (or) ( śiṅga )
Ojibwe: eshkan
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: рогъ m ( rogŭ )
Glagolitic: ⱃⱁⰳⱏ m ( rogŭ )
Old East Slavic: рогъ m ( rogŭ )
Old English: horn (ang)
Old Javanese: sungu
Old Prussian: ragis
Oromo: gaafa
Ossetian: сыкъа ( syk’a )
Ottoman Turkish: بوینوز ( boynuz )
Persian: شاخ (fa) ( šâx ) , سرو (fa) ( soru )
Plautdietsch: Huarn n
Polabian: rüg m
Polish: róg (pl) m
Portuguese: chifre (pt) m , corno (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਿੰਙ (pa) m ( sĩṅ )
Quechua: wagra , waqra
Rendille: gas
Rohingya: cíng
Romagnol: cörna f
Romani: śing m
Romanian: corn (ro) m pl : corni, corn (ro) n coarne (ro) pl
Russian: рог (ru) m ( rog )
Saho: gashsha
Sanskrit: शृङ्ग (sa) n ( śṛṅgá )
Sardinian: corru m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̑г m
Roman: rȏg (sh) m
Sicilian: cornu (scn)
Sindhi: سڱ
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: roh m
Slovene: rog (sl) m
Somali: gees (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rog m
Upper Sorbian: róh m
Spanish: cuerno (es) m , ( Bolivia, Central America, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela - colloquial ) cacho (es) m , asta (es) f
Sranan Tongo: tutu
Sundanese: tanduk
Swahili: pembe (sw)
Swedish: horn (sv) n
Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠋ ( hiṅ )
Tagalog: sungay
Tahitian: tara
Tajik: шох (tg) ( šox )
Talysh: ( Asalemi ) شخ ( šox )
Tarifit: išš m
Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵙⴽⵜ f ( tiskt )
Tatar: мөгез (tt) ( mögez )
Telugu: కొమ్ము (te) ( kommu )
Thai: เขา (th) ( kǎo ) , ( of rhinoceros ) นอ (th) ( nɔɔ )
Tibetan: རྭ ( rwa )
Tigrinya: ቀርኒ ( ḳärni )
Tocharian B: krorīya
Turkish: boynuz (tr)
Turkmen: şah
Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎗𐎐 ( qrn )
Ukrainian: ріг (uk) m ( rih )
Urdu: سینگ m ( sī̃g )
Uyghur: مۈڭگۈز ( münggüz )
Uzbek: shox (uz) , muguz (uz)
Venetan: corno m
Vietnamese: sừng (vi)
Walloon: coine (wa) f
Welsh: corn (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: sungo
West Frisian: hoarn c
White Hmong: kub
Yakut: муос ( muos )
Yoruba: ìwo
Yurok: s'echoh
Zazaki: qoç , aox , estere
Zealandic: 'oôrn m
Zou: ki
Zulu: uphondo class 11 /10
any similar real or imaginary projection
any of several musical wind instruments
Albanian: bori (sq)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܪܢܐ f ( qarnā )
Armenian: եղջերափող (hy) ( ełǰerapʻoł )
Bulgarian: рог (bg) m ( rog )
Catalan: corn (ca) m
Czech: roh (cs) m
Danish: horn (da) n
Dutch: hoorn (nl) m
Esperanto: korno (eo)
Finnish: torvi (fi) , puhallin (fi) , puhallinsoitin (fi)
French: cor (fr) m
Galician: corno (gl) m , trompa (gl) f
German: Waldhorn n ( French horn ) , Horn (de) n
Greek: κέρας (el) n ( kéras ) , κόρνο (el) n ( kórno ) , ( French horn ) γαλλικό κόρνο (el) n ( gallikó kórno )
Hungarian: kürt (hu)
Icelandic: horn (is) n
Irish: corn m
Italian: corno (it) m
Maori: hāona , pūtoto
Norwegian:
Bokmål: horn (no) n
Nynorsk: horn n
Ottoman Turkish: بوینوز ( boynuz ) , صور ( sur )
Persian: بوق (fa) ( buq ) , هورن (fa) ( horn ) , برغو (fa) sg ( barɣū ~ borɣū )
Plautdietsch: Huarn f
Polish: róg (pl) m , waltornia (pl) f
Portuguese: trompa (pt) f
Romanian: corn (ro) n
Russian: рожо́к (ru) m ( rožók )
Slovene: rog (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rog m
Spanish: viento (es) m
Sranan Tongo: tutu
Swahili: baragumu
Swedish: horn (sv) n
Telugu: బూర (te) ( būra )
Thai: แตร (th) ( dtrɛɛ )
Turkish: korno (tr)
Vietnamese: kèn (vi)
Walloon: coine (wa) m , côr (wa) m
Zulu: icilongo class 5 /6 , ixilongo class 5 /6
instrument used to signal others
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܪܢܐ f ( qarnā )
Armenian: շչակ (hy) ( ščʻak )
Catalan: corn (ca) m
Danish: horn (da) n , jagthorn n
Dutch: hoorn (nl) m
Finnish: torvi (fi)
Galician: corno (gl) m , bucina (gl) , claxon m
German: Jagdhorn (de) n ( hunting horn ) , Horn (de) n
Greek: κέρας (el) n ( kéras )
Irish: adharc f
Italian: corno (it) m
Japanese: 角笛 (ja) ( つのぶえ, tsunobue )
Macedonian: труба f ( truba )
Maori: pūhāureroa , pūwhāureroa , pūhāureroa
Ngazidja Comorian: djudju class 5 /6
Persian: بوق (fa) ( buq ) , کرنا (fa) ( karnâ )
Polish: róg (pl) m
Portuguese: corno (pt) m , corneta (pt) f
Romanian: corn (ro) n
Russian: гудо́к (ru) m ( gudók ) , рожо́к (ru) m ( rožók ) ( trumpet, bugle )
Spanish: cuerno (es) m , corneta (es) f
Swahili: baragumu
Vietnamese: tù và (vi)
Zulu: icilongo class 5 /6 , ixilongo class 5 /6
loud alarm, especially on a motor vehicle
Afrikaans: toeter , horing (af)
Albanian: bri (sq) m , briri f
Arabic: زَمْر m ( zamr ) , بُوق m ( būq ) , كْلَاكْسُون m ( klāksūn ) , زَمَّارَة f ( zammāra ) , بُورِي m ( būrī )
Gulf Arabic: هرن m ( hirin )
Hijazi Arabic: بوري m ( būri )
Armenian: շչակ (hy) ( ščʻak )
Belarusian: клаксо́н m ( klaksón ) , кла́ксан m ( kláksan ) , гудо́к m ( hudók ) , сірэ́на f ( siréna )
Bengali: ভেঁপু (bn) ( bhẽpu )
Bulgarian: кла́ксон (bg) m ( klákson ) , сире́на (bg) f ( siréna )
Burmese: ဟွန်း (my) ( hwan: )
Catalan: clàxon (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 喇叭 (zh) ( lǎba )
Czech: klakson (cs) m
Danish: horn (da) n
Dutch: toeter (nl) m , claxon (nl) m
Esperanto: hupo
Estonian: autopasun
Finnish: torvi (fi) , äänitorvi (fi) , töötti (fi) ( colloquial ) , riikkari (fi) ( slang )
French: klaxon (fr) m
Galician: bucina (gl) f
Georgian: კლაქსონი (ka) ( ḳlaksoni )
German: Hupe (de) f
Greek: κόρνα (el) f ( kórna ) , κλάξον (el) n ( kláxon )
Haitian Creole: klakson
Hebrew: צוֹפָר (he) m ( tsófar )
Hindi: भोंपू m ( bhõpū ) , क्लाक्सोन ( klākson )
Hungarian: autóduda (hu) , duda (hu)
Indonesian: klakson (id)
Irish: adharc f
Italian: clacson (it) m
Japanese: クラクション (ja) ( kurakushon ) , 警笛 (ja) ( けいてき, keiteki ) , ホーン (ja) ( hōn ) , 警音器 ( けいおんき, keionki )
Korean: 클락션 ( keullaksyeon ) , 경적(警笛) (ko) ( gyeongjeok )
Latvian: signāltaure f , klaksons m
Lithuanian: signalas (lt) m , klaksonas m
Luxembourgish: Tut f
Macedonian: сире́на f ( siréna )
Malay: hon (ms)
Maori: haona
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: чагнаал (mn) ( čagnaal )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: horn (no) n
Nynorsk: horn n
Persian: بوق (fa) ( buq ) , کلاکسون ( kelâksôn )
Polish: klakson (pl) m
Portuguese: buzina (pt) f
Romanian: claxon (ro) n
Russian: клаксо́н (ru) m ( klaksón ) , кла́ксон (ru) m ( klákson ) , гудо́к (ru) m ( gudók ) , сире́на (ru) m ( siréna )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сире́на f
Roman: siréna (sh) f
Slovak: klaksón m
Slovene: hupa f
Spanish: ( Argentina, Chile, Uruguay ) bocina (es) f , ( Mexico, Peru, Spain ) claxon m , ( Venezuela ) corneta (es) f , ( Cuba ) fotuto (es) m , ( Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain ) pito (es) m , klaxon (es) m ( Mexico )
Swedish: tuta (sv) c
Tagalog: busina (tl)
Telugu: బూర (te) ( būra ) , హారను ( hāranu )
Thai: แตร (th) ( dtrɛɛ ) , แตรรถ ( dtrɛɛ-rót )
Turkish: korna (tr) , klâkson (tr)
Turkmen: tüýdük
Ukrainian: клаксо́н m ( klaksón ) , кла́ксон m ( klákson ) , сире́на f ( syréna ) , гудо́к m ( hudók )
Uzbek: qo'bizcha , shox (uz) , klakson
Vietnamese: râu (vi) , sừng (vi) , còi (vi) , còi điện
Zazaki: qorna f , klakson f
Zulu: ihutha class 5 /6
conical device used to direct waves
peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land
Translations to be checked
Verb
horn (third-person singular simple present horns , present participle horning , simple past and past participle horned )
( transitive , of an animal) To assault with the horns .
( transitive ) To furnish with horns.
( transitive , slang , obsolete ) To cuckold .
( intransitive , Singapore , India ) To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk .
Rabia Sajal Niazi, His Precious Gem
He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *hiyarno- , from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (compare Welsh haern , Breton houarn , Irish iarann ), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ ( “ blood, red ” ) .
Noun
horn m
iron
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Clipping of horn margh
Noun
horn m (plural hern )
horse shoe
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n (singular definite hornet , plural indefinite horn )
horn
Inflection
References
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns , plural horn )
horn ( of an animal )
( music ) horn
corner
speaker ( on a telephone )
angle
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns , nominative plural horn )
horn ( of an animal )
fin ( of a cetacean or other marine animal )
corner
angle
( music ) horn
Declension
Declension of horn (neuter )
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English horn , from Proto-West Germanic *horn , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).
Pronunciation
Noun
horn (plural hornes )
A horn ( keratinous growth) :
Horn as a material or in crafts .
( rare ) The metaphorical horn of a cuckold .
( rare , heraldry ) A heraldic depiction of a horn.
A projecting extremity or point :
A point of a crescent moon .
A point of a woman 's hairstyle.
A horn ( musical instrument )
A bodily extension, such as a claw.
A horn-shaped container ( especially as a glass )
( rare ) A section of an army or band .
( rare ) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
( rare , collectively ) Horned bovids .
Descendants
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet , indefinite plural horn , definite plural horna or hornene )
( zoology ) horn
( music ) horn
( automotive , rail transport ) horn ( warning device )
Derived terms
References
“horn” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /horn/ , /hoɳː/
( segmentation ) IPA (key ) : /hodn/
( palatalisation ) IPA (key ) : /hoɲː/
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet , indefinite plural horn , definite plural horna )
( zoology ) horn
( music ) horn
( automotive , rail transport ) horn ( warning device )
Derived terms
References
“horn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- ( “ horn, head, top ” ) .
Cognate with Old Frisian horn , Old Saxon horn , Old High German horn , Old Norse horn , Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 ( haurn ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn m
horn
Laws of King Ine
Oxan horn bið X pæninga weorð. The worth of an ox's horn is ten pennies.
antler
(horn-shaped) gable
Declension
Strong a -stem:
Derived terms
Descendants
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Cognates include also Old Saxon horn , Old English horn , Old Norse horn , Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 ( haurn ) .
Noun
horn n
horn
Descendants
Middle High German: horn
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: Horn
Luxembourgish: Har
Cimbrian: hòrn
German: Horn
Rhine Franconian:
Frankfurterisch:
Yiddish: האָרן ( horn )
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- or Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- . Cognates include Old English horn (English horn , Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn ), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn , horn ), Dutch hoorn , Old High German horn (German Horn ), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 ( haurn ) .
Noun
horn n (genitive horns , plural horn )
horn (of an animal)
horn (to drink from)
horn (musical instrument)
corner
angle
Declension
Declension of horn (strong a -stem)
Descendants
Further reading
Zoëga, Geir T. (1910 ) “horn ”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic , Oxford: Clarendon Press ; also available at the Internet Archive
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Cognates include also Old English horn , Old Frisian horn , Old High German horn , Old Norse horn , Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 ( haurn ) .
Noun
horn n
horn
Declension
Declension of horn (neuter a-stem)
Descendants
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- .
Noun
horn n
horn (of an animal)
horn (to drink from)
horn (musical instrument)
corner
angle
Declension
Declension of horn (strong a -stem)
Descendants
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainian горн ( horn ) , from Proto-Slavic *gъrnъ .
Noun
horn n (plural hornuri )
chimney
Synonyms: cămin , coș , fumar , hogeag
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn , from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ ( horna ) , from Proto-Germanic *hurną , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- .
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n
horn ( growth on animals' heads )
horn ( object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds )
horn ( object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car )
( music ) horn
Declension