Horn

the Horn

1. Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.

   Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.

2. The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
   • 1978, War in the Horn of Africa, report of the United States Fact-Finding Mission to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, page 4:

     At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.

   • 1998, John Markakis, Resource conflict in the Horn of Africa, page 185:

     […] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.

   • 2001, Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia →ISBN, page 8:

     The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.

   • 2012, Peter Woodward, Crisis In The Horn of Africa →ISBN, page 39:

     Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.

• Horn peninsula
• Horn of Africa
• Horn region

• Rohn

From Middle High German horn, from Old High German horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-. Compare Low German Horn, Hoorn, Hurn; Haön (Münsterländisch), Dutch hoorn, English horn, Danish horn and Swedish horn.

• IPA^(key): /hɔrn/, [hɔʁn], [hɔɐ̯n], [hɔːn]

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• Rhymes with: Dorn, Korn, vorn, Zorn

Horn n (genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Hörner, diminutive Hörnchen n or Hörnlein n)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. horn (projection, of an animal, altar, etc.)
3. cornet
4. (anatomy) cranial parietal bones

• Hörnli

Horn n (genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Horne)

1. horn (substance from which animal horns are made)

• Hornhaut

Horn m or f (genitive Horns)

1. A surname​.

Horn n (genitive Horns)

1. A municipality in Lower Austria, Austria.
2. A municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
3. A municipality in Switzerland.

• Horn in Duden online

• IPA^(key): [ˈhorn]

Horn

1. A surname​.

• Appendix:Hungarian surnames