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4-letter words (3 found)

HARO,HOAR,HORA,

3-letter words (6 found)

HAO,HOA,OAR,ORA,RAH,RHO,

2-letter words (6 found)

AH,AR,HA,HO,OH,OR,

You can make 15 words from hora according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hora

hora ohra hroa rhoa orha roha hoar ohar haor ahor oahr aohr hrao rhao haro ahro raho arho orah roah oarh aorh raoh aroh

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Definitions and meaning of hora

hora

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”). Doublet of choir and chorus.

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”). Doublet of hour and year.

Noun

hora (uncountable)

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

References

Anagrams

  • Haro, Hoar, ROAH, haor, haro, hoar, oh ar

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

Inherited from Old Catalan hora, borrowed from Latin hōra (“hour”) (borrowing is indicated by the late attestation and pronunciation with open /ɔ/). First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈɔ.ɾa]

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)
  4. appointment
    Synonym: cita
    Tinc hora al metge. ― I've got an appointment with the doctor.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “hora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “hora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “hora” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “hora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Alternative forms

  • hůra (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech hora, from Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦora]

Noun

hora f

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

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 *kéh₂ros (“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

Synonyms

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Romanian horă.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhorɑ/, [ˈho̞rɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -orɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ho‧ra

Noun

hora

  1. hora (dance)

Declension

Anagrams

  • Arho, arho, haro, ohra

Franco-Provençal

Noun

hora f

  1. hour

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of ora.

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

References

  • “hora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “hora” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “hora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “hora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “hora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

hora (plural horas)

  1. hour

Derived terms

  • libro de horas Book of hours

Italian

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of ora

Anagrams

  • Raho

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

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhoː.ra/, [ˈhoːrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]

Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

  1. hour
    • c. 1050?, Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
  2. time
    • c. 2 A.D., Ovid, Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI)
      Dum loquor, hora fugit.
      Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.
  3. o'clock
  4. season; time of year

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

From ad hōram:

From ad ad hōram:

From hanc hōram:

From hāc hōrā:

Borrowings

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “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 Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • horen

Noun

hora m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of hore

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hora f

  1. definite singular of hore

Old Czech

Alternative forms

  • hóra

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gora.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈɣora/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈɦora/

Noun

hora f

  1. mountain
    spěti z hory ― to rise (sun)
    spěti k hořě ― to set (sun)
  2. rock
  3. pile
  4. mountain mine
  5. winery
    vinničná/vinná/vinohradní/vinohradná hora ― winery

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Czech: hora, hůra

Further reading

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hora”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hōra f

  1. whore, adulteress

Declension

Descendants

  • Swedish: hora

Portuguese

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/
  • Homophone: ora
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

  2. hour (period of sixty minutes)
  4. time (point in time)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hora.

Derived terms

  • fazer hora
  • em cima da hora
  • hora H
  • horinha (diminutive)

Descendants

  • Chichewa: ola
  • Kabuverdianu: óra
  • Macanese: ora
  • Papiamentu: ora

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhora]

Noun

hora f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of horă

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-hóra (infinitive guhóra, perfective -hóze)

  1. to be(come) quiet, be(come) calm
  2. to be(come) cold, cool
  3. to always or continuously do

Derived terms

  • amahoro (“peace”)
  • buhoro

Verb

-hōra (infinitive guhōra, perfective -hōye)

  1. to avenge

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦɔra]

Noun

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

  1. mountain

Declension

Derived terms

  • horár
  • horička
  • horský
  • hôrka
  • hôrny

Further reading

  • “hora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoɾa/ [ˈo.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

  1. hour (a time period of sixty minutes)
  2. time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device)
  3. high time (usually with "ya")
  4. (education) hour, period (of class)
  5. (Spain, colloquial) appointment (e.g. with the doctor)
    Synonym: cita

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: ora
Borrowings

Further reading

  • “hora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure. Doublet of kär.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /huːra/

Noun

hora c

  1. a whore (prostitute)
    Synonyms: fnask, gatflicka, glädjeflicka, luder, prostituerad, sköka, (man whore) manshora
  2. (derogatory) a whore (promiscuous person, slut)
  3. (derogatory) a whore (person offering themselves in some non-sexual capacity in a way perceived as indicating a lack of self-respect)
  4. (derogatory) a whore (contemptible person)

Declension

Verb

hora (present horar, preterite horade, supine horat, imperative hora)

  1. to whore
  2. (figuratively) to whore (offer oneself in a way perceived as indicating a lack of self-respect)
  3. (dated) to engage in adultery or fornication (sex with someone who is not one's spouse, or sex while unmarried)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • horbock
  • horkarl
  • horklut
  • horunge
  • svennehora

Related terms

  • hor
  • horeri
  • horig

References

  • hora in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • hora in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • hora in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • hoar

Source: wiktionary.org