hora

See also: Hora, hóra, horă, höra, and høra

English

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hóre) and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, dance).[1]

Noun

hora (plural horas)

  1. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, hour).

Noun

hora (uncountable)

  1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.

References

  1. “hora”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2008).

Anagrams


Asturian

Etymology

From Latin hōra (hour).

Noun

hora m (plural hores)

  1. hour
  2. time
    ¿Qué hora ye?
    What time is it?
  3. o'clock
    les 19.00 hores
    7:00 pm

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hōra (hour).

Pronunciation

Noun

hora f (plural hores)

  1. hour (sixty minutes)
  2. time (the moment as indicated by a clock)
    Quina hora és?
    What time is it?
  3. time (the appropriate hour to do something)

Derived terms

Further reading


Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦora/
  • (file)

Noun

hora f

  1. mountain
  2. (colloquial) a lot, tons
Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hora in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • hora in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish hora

Noun

hora

  1. hour.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ros (dear, loved).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhoːɹa/
  • Rhymes: -oːɹa

Noun

hora f (genitive singular horu, plural horur)

  1. (vulgar) whore, (female) prostitute
  2. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) slut
  3. (nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk

Declension

Declension of hora
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hora horan horur horurnar
accusative horu horuna horur horurnar
dative horu horuni horum horunum
genitive horu horunnar hora horanna

Synonyms

  • (prostitute): skøkja f
  • (tusk, cusk): brosma f

Galician

Etymology

From Latin hōra (hour).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔɾɐ], [ˈoɾɐ]

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

  1. hour
  2. time of the day
    ¿Que hora é? — "What time is it?
  3. regular or designated time for doing something

Interlingua

Noun

hora (plural horas)

  1. hour

Derived terms

  • libro de horas Book of hours

Italian

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

  1. Obsolete form of ora.

Japanese

Romanization

hora

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほら

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, time, season, year), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (year, season).

Pronunciation

Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

  1. hour
  2. time
  3. o'clock
  4. season; time of year
  5. vocative singular of hōra

hōrā f

  1. ablative singular of hōra

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative hōra hōrae
Genitive hōrae hōrārum
Dative hōrae hōrīs
Accusative hōram hōrās
Ablative hōrā hōrīs
Vocative hōra hōrae

Descendants

References

  • hora in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • what time is it: quota hora est?
    • it is the third hour (= 9 A.M.: tertia hora est
    • at the time agreed on: ad horam compositam
  • hora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hora in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Determiner

hora

  1. (chiefly early and West Midland dialectal) Alternative form of here (their)

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

hora m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of hore

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hora f

  1. definite singular of hore

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ.

Noun

hōra f

  1. whore, adulteress

Declension

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (hour), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, time, season, year), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (year, season).

Cognate with Galician hora, Spanish hora, Catalan hora, Occitan ora, French heure, Italian ora and Romanian oară.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɾɐ/
  • Homophone: ora
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

  1. hour (period of sixty minutes)
    Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.
    There are twenty-four hours in a day.
  2. time (point in time)
    Alguma hora eu passo aí.
    Some time I’ll hop over there.
    Que horas são?
    What time is it?

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:hora.


Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gwerH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦɔra/
  • (file)

Noun

hora f (genitive singular hory, nominative plural hory, genitive plural hôr, declension pattern of žena)

  1. mountain

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hora in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hōra (hour).

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

  1. hour
    Hay veinticuatro horas por el día.
    There are twenty-four hours in a day.
  2. time
    ¿Qué hora es?
    What time is it?
    Ya es hora de ir.
    It's time to go.

Descendants


Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kāro-, *keh₂ro- (dear, loved). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

hora c

  1. whore

Declension

Declension of hora 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hora horan horor hororna
Genitive horas horans horors horornas

Verb

hora

  1. whore

Conjugation

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