hart

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɑːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɑɹt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
• Homophone: heart

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóru (“horn”).

hart (plural harts)

1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
2. A red deer or one of related species.

• hind (the female)

See heart.

hart (plural harts)

1. Obsolete spelling of heart
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     , scene i:

     For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, and I am ſick at hart.

• Arth, Thar, rath, tahr, thar

From Dutch hart, from Middle Dutch herte, harte, from Old Dutch herta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

hart (plural harte)

1. heart

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑrt/

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• Hyphenation: hart
• Rhymes: -ɑrt
• Homophone: hard

From Middle Dutch herte, harte, from Old Dutch herta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

hart n (plural harten, diminutive hartje n)

1. heart, main muscle pumping blood through the body:
2. The center point or zone of an object, image etc.
3. The core or essence of some thing, reasoning etc.
4. Compassionate or similar feelings

• hert
• herte

hart n (plural harten, diminutive hartje n)

1. (Northern) Archaic form of hert (“deer”).

hart (neuter of harður)

1. hard
2. loud

From Middle French hart, from Old French hart, hard, a borrowing from Frankish *harda, from Proto-Germanic *hezdǭ. Compare Middle Dutch herde, German Hardt.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁ/, /aʁt/

hart f (plural harts)

1. (archaic) cord, rope; halter (hangman's rope)

• “hart” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old High German hart, from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-, *kret- (“strong; powerful”). Cognate with Low German hard, hart, Dutch hard, English hard, Danish hård.

• (standard German) IPA^(key): /haʁt/
• (common, especially in northern and central Germany) IPA^(key): /haːt/

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hart (comparative härter, superlative am härtesten)

1. hard
2. severe, harsh
   • 2012 May 2, Die Welt , page 10:

     Die harten Einschnitte zum Schuldenabbau standen in vielen EU-Ländern im Zentrum der Kritik der Demonstranten.

     The severe cuts for the reduction of debt were in many EU countries at the center of criticism by the protesters.

hart

1. hard
2. sharply, roughly, severely
3. close (an (+ dative) to)

• hart in Duden online

hart

1. neuter nominative and accusative of harður

Borrowed from English heart.

hart m (genitive singular hairt, nominative plural hairt)

1. (card games) heart

See the etymology of the main entry.

hart

1. h-prothesized form of art

• "hart" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From Old Dutch hart, from Proto-Germanic *harduz.

hart

1. hard (not soft)
2. solid, sturdy
3. hard, harsh, cruel

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: hard

• “hart”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “hart (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Frisian herte. Cognates include West Frisian hert.

• IPA^(key): /hart/

hart n (plural harten)

1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) heart

   At hart klopet/böget.

   My heart is beating.

From Proto-Germanic *harduz.

hart (comparative hardiro, superlative hardist)

1. hard

• Middle Dutch: hart
  • Dutch: hard

• “hart (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *harduz, whence also Old Saxon hard, Old Dutch hart, Old English heard, Old Norse harðr, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kert-, *kret- (“strong; powerful”).

hart

1. hard

• hartī

• Middle High German: hart, herte
  • Alemannic German: hert

    Swabian: hirrt

  • Central Franconian: haat
  • German: hart
  • Luxembourgish: haart
  • Yiddish: האַרט‎ (hart)

• IPA^(key): /xart/
• Homophone: chart

hart m inan

1. strength, resilience, fortitude

On its own, used mainly in the idiom hart ducha. Most of the derived terms are technical and refer to steel hardening.

• hartować
• hartowany

hart n (plural harten, diminutive hartsje)

1. deer

• reahart

• “hart (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011