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3-letter words (2 found)

HER,REH,

2-letter words (4 found)

EH,ER,HE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from her according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of her

her ehr hre rhe erh reh

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Definitions and meaning of her

her

Translingual

Symbol

her

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Herero.

Alternative forms

  • herė

Etymology

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)/, unstressed IPA(key): /ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɝ/, unstressed IPA(key): /ɚ/
  • Homophone: a (non-rhotic, unstressed)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Determiner

her

  1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
    This is her book
  2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).

Translations

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Pronoun

her

  1. The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc.
    Give it to her (after preposition)
    He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
    He treated her for a cold (direct object)
    Him and her went for a walk (with a conjunction; deprecated)
    • February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
      "Then what became of her?"
      "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
      "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

her (plural hers)

  1. (informal) A female person or animal.
    I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
    • 1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
      […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

Synonyms

  • she

Anagrams

  • EHR, Ehr, HRE, reh

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • heru, hjeru

Etymology

From Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.

Noun

her n (plural heari or heare)

  1. iron

Related terms

  • hirar

Cornish

Noun

her

  1. Mixed mutation of ger.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɛr]

Noun

her f

  1. genitive plural of hra

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

Adverb

her

  1. here

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɛr/

Adverb

her

  1. here

Usage notes

  • Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.

Derived terms

  • her en der (“here and there, hither and thither (which is the older meaning https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_taa014200901_01/_taa014200901_01_0229.php”), her en der verspreid (“scattered all over the place”)
  • van hot naar her (“from pillar to post, here, there and everywhere”)

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heːɹ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

  1. here

Etymology 2

From herur.

Noun

her

  1. indefinite accusative singular of herur

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heːr/, [heːɐ̯], [hɛɐ̯]
  • Homophones: Heer, hehr
  • Homophone: Herr (common merger)
  • Rhymes: -eːɐ̯

Adverb

her

  2. hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
  3. ago

Antonyms

  • hin

Derived terms

  • heran
  • heraus
  • herbei
  • herüber
  • hierher
  • woher

See also

  • her-

Further reading

  • “her” in Duden online
  • “her” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Gothic

Romanization

hēr

  1. Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse herr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛːr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːr

Noun

her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)

  1. army, military

Declension

Derived terms

  • herbragð
  • hergögn
  • herkvaðning
  • hermaður
  • herstígvél
  • þú og hvaða her

Limburgish

Etymology

From hieër.

Noun

her m

  1. vocative singular of hieër

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Alternative forms

  • er, hair, haire, har, hare, hær, hear, heere, heir, here, herre, heyr, hier, hor, hore

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛːr/, /heːr/

Noun

her (plural heres)

  2. (countable) a hair (follicular growth on the skin)
  3. (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
  4. pelt, hide, animal skin
  5. Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
  6. (figurative) small part, any part (of a person)
Related terms
  • hors her
  • hery
Descendants
  • English: hair
  • Scots: hair, hayr, hare
  • Yola: haar

References

  • “hēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English hēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r.

Alternative forms

  • ar, er, ere, hare, hær, hære, heir, here, herre, hier, hiere, hir, hire, hyer, hyre

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heːr/, /hɛːr/

Adverb

her

  1. here
Descendants
  • English: here
  • Scots: here, her
  • Yola: haar, here

References

  • “hẹ̄r, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Determiner

her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)

Pronoun

her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)

Etymology 5

Determiner

her

  1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 6

Adjective

her

  1. Alternative form of here (“pleasant”)

Etymology 7

Noun

her (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 8

Noun

her

  1. Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)

Etymology 9

Noun

her

  1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 10

Noun

her (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 11

Verb

her

  1. Alternative form of heren (“to hear”)

Etymology 12

Adjective

her

  1. comparative degree of he (“high”)

North Frisian

Pronoun

her

  1. her: third-person singular, feminine, objective
  2. her: third-person singular, feminine, possesive

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.

Adverb

her

  1. every, each
  2. anyone
  3. anyway

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæːr/

Adverb

her

  1. here

Derived terms

  • herfra, herifra

References

  • “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæːr/, /heːr/
  • Homophone: hær

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

  1. here
  2. just now, recently

Etymology 2

Noun

her m (definite singular heren, indefinite plural herar, definite plural herane)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of hær

References

  • “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ᚻᛖᚱ (her) — Franks Casket

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xeːr/, [heːr]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, apparently from the stem *hi- (“this”); the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂 (hēr).

Adverb

hēr

  1. here
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 46:2
Descendants
  • Middle English: her, here, heer
    • English: here
    • Scots: her, here

Etymology 2

Noun

hēr n

  1. Alternative form of hǣr

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hār. Cognates include Old English hǣr, Old Saxon hār and Old Dutch hār.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːr/, [ˈhɛːr]

Noun

hēr n

  1. hair

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: hiar
    Goesharde: heer, häär
    Halligen: heer
    Heligoland: Hear
    Mooring: häär
    Sylt: Hiir
    Wiedingharde: heer
  • Saterland Frisian: Híer
  • West Frisian: hier

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

Adjective

hēr (comparative hērro or hērōro)

  1. gray-haired, old
  2. noble, venerable
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle High German: hēr
    • German: hehr

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

her

  1. (northern dialects) Alternative form of er
Descendants
  • Middle High German: hër, he
    • Central Franconian:
      • Moselle Franconian: ä, en (from the accusative)
        Eifelisch: hän, hen, en
        • Luxembourgish: hien, en
      • Ripuarian:
        Aachensch: he
        Kölsch: hä, ä
    • East Central German:
      Lusatian-New Marchian: hä
      Thuringian:
      North Thuringian: he, hä
    • Rhine Franconian:
      Hessian:
      Low Hessian: he, hä
      South Hessian: he
    • Vilamovian: hār

Old Norse

Noun

her

  1. accusative/dative singular of herr

Salar

Etymology

From Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).

Pronunciation

  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Mengda, Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [her]
  • (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [heɹ]
  • (Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hær]
  • (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hɑ]

Adjective

her

  1. every

Derived terms

  • her gün (“every day”)

References

  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “her”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 333-334

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هر, from Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæɾ/, /heɾ/

Determiner

her

  1. every
  2. each

Volapük

Noun

her (nominative plural hers)

  1. hair

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Compare English here, used in an interjectory sense as in "here! shoo! go on!"

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛr/

Noun

her f (plural heriau, not mutable)

  1. challenge

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “her”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiː/
  • Homophone: haar

Etymology 1

From Middle English here, from Old English hire, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀē.

Pronoun

her

  1. her

Etymology 2

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

Determiner

her

  1. her

References

Zazaki

Etymology 1

Related to Persian هر (har).

Adjective

her

  1. each

Etymology 2

Related to Persian خر (xar).

Noun

her

  1. donkey

Source: wiktionary.org