hora

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה‎ (hóra) and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).^[1]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”).

References

Anagrams

• Haro, Hoar, ROAH, haor, hoar, oh ar

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

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦora/

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Noun

hora f

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

Further reading

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

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, pejorative) slut
3. (nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk

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

Noun

hora (plural horas)

1. hour

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

1. Obsolete form of ora.

Romanization

hora

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほら

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhoː.ra/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈoː.ra]

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Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

1. hour
2. time
   • Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI) by Publius Ovidius Naso

     Dum loquor, hora fugit.

     Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.

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

hōrā f

1. ablative singular of hōra
   • From the prayer Ave Maria (Hail Mary)

     Et in hora mortis nostrae.

     And in the hour of our death.

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

Determiner

hora

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

References

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Alternative forms

• horen

Noun

hora m, f

1. definite feminine singular of hore

Noun

hora f

1. definite singular of hore

Etymology

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

Noun

hōra f

1. whore, adulteress

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?

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔra/

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Noun

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

1. mountain

Further reading

• hora in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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.

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

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Noun

hora c

1. whore

Verb

hora

1. whore