hora

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

English

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה‎ (hóra), Yiddish האָרע‎ (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).[1] Doublet of chorus.

Noun

hora (plural horas)

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

Translations

circle dance

Bulgarian: хоро (bg) (horo)
Finnish: hora (fi)
Hebrew: הוֹרָה‎ (he) f (hóra)
Hungarian: hóra (hu)
Macedonian: оро (oro)
Persian: پنزه‎ (fa) (panze)
Polish: hora (pl) f
Romanian: horă (ro)
Russian: хо́ра (ru) f (xóra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: коло n, оро n
Roman: kolo (sh) n, oro (sh) n
Turkish: hora (tr)
Yiddish: האָרע‎ f (hore), הורה‎ f (hore)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

hora (uncountable)

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

References

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

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Noun

hora m (plural hores)

hour
time
¿Qué hora ye?
What time is it?
o'clock
les 19.00 hores
7.00 pm

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

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

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾa/
Audio (file)

Noun

hora f (plural hores)

hour (sixty minutes)
time (the moment as indicated by a clock)
Quina hora és? ― What time is it?
time (the appropriate hour to do something)
appointment
Synonym: cita
Tinc hora al metge. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

a alta hora
a hora baixa
a hora foscant
a l'hora
bona hora
d'hora
fora d'hora
gran hora de dia
horabaixa
hora extra
hora punta
hora zero
horeta
tothora

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦora]
audio (file)

Noun

hora f

mountain
(colloquial) a lot, tons

Declension

Declension of hora

	singular	plural
nominative	hora	hory
genitive	hory	hor
dative	hoře	horám
accusative	horu	hory
vocative	horo	hory
locative	hoře	horách
instrumental	horou	horami

Derived terms

horal m
horák m
horolezec m

Related terms

adjectives

horní
horský
náhorní

nouns

horka
horník
hůra
hůrka
podhůří

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish hora.

Noun

hora

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)

(vulgar) whore, (female) prostitute
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) slut
(nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk

Declension

Declension of hora
f1	singular		plural
f1	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

Finnish

Etymology

From Romanian horă.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hora

hora (dance)

Declension

Inflection of hora (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		hora	horat
genitive		horan	horien
partitive		horaa	horia
illative		horaan	horiin
		singular	plural
nominative		hora	horat
accusative	nom.	hora	horat
accusative	gen.	horan	horat
genitive		horan	horien horain^rare
partitive		horaa	horia
inessive		horassa	horissa
elative		horasta	horista
illative		horaan	horiin
adessive		horalla	horilla
ablative		horalta	horilta
allative		horalle	horille
essive		horana	horina
translative		horaksi	horiksi
instructive		—	horin
abessive		horatta	horitta
comitative		—	horineen

Possessive forms of hora (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	horani	horamme
2nd person	horasi	horanne
3rd person	horansa

Anagrams

Arho, arho, haro, ohra

Franco-Provençal

Noun

hora f

hour

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɐ], [ˈoɾɐ]

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

hour
time of the day
Que hora é? ― What time is it?
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)

hour

Derived terms

libro de horas Book of hours

Italian

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

(obsolete) Alternative form of ora

Anagrams

Raho

Japanese

Romanization

hora

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]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]
Audio (Classical) (file)

Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

hour
- c. 1050?, Ave Maria (Hail Mary)
  Et in hora mortis nostrae.
  And in the hour of our death.
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.
o'clock
season; time of year

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: oarã, ore
- Romanian: oară
Dalmatian:
- jaura
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: ora
- Italian: ora
- Sicilian: ura
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: òra
Padanian:
- Emilian: ora
- Friulian: ore
- Istriot: ura
- Ladin: ora, ëura
- Piedmontese: ora
- Romansch: ura, oura
- Venetian: óra
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: hora
- Old French: ore (early), heure (late)
  - Angevin: houre
  - Middle French: heure (see there for further descendants)
  - → Middle Dutch: ûre (see there for further descendants)
- Old Northern French: oure, eure, ure
  - Anglo-Norman: houre
    - → Middle English: houre (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman:
    Continental Norman: heure, houre
    Guernsey Norman: haeure
    Jersey Norman: heuthe
  - Picard: eure
  - Walloon: eure
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: hora
- Occitan: ora
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: hora
- Old Portuguese: ora
  - Galician: hora, ora
  - Portuguese: hora, ora (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: hora (see there for further descendants)

From ad hōram:

Aragonese: ara
Catalan: ara
>? Franco-Provençal: yòra, yeura
Occitan: ara

From ad ad hōram:

Gascon: adara
Vivaro-Alpine: aiara, iara, èira, àira

From hanc hōram:

Dalmatian:
- junkaura
Italo-Romance
- Italian: ancora
North Italian:
- Piedmontese: ancor, anco', 'nco, 'ncora
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: ancor
  - French: encore
    - → English: encore
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: encara
  - → Spanish: encara
- Occitan: encara
  Gascon: enqüèra, encòra, engüèra
  Provençal: encar
  Limousin: enquera
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: encara, enca

From hāc hōrā:

Padanian:
- Ligurian: òua, aora
- Piedmontese: àora, àor
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: aoura, vôra, vuòre
Occitano-Romance:
- Limousin: aura, agora
- Vivaro-Alpine: aüra, avura
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: agora
- Old Leonese: agora
  - Asturian: agora
  - Mirandese: agora
- Old Portuguese: agora
  - Galician: agora
  - Portuguese: agora
- Old Spanish: agora
  - Ladino: agora
  - Spanish: ahora

Borrowings

→ Albanian: herë (early borrowing), orë (later borrowing)
→ Basque: oren
→ Hungarian: óra
→ Old Irish: úar
- Middle Irish: úar
  - Irish: uair
  - Manx: oor
  - Scottish Gaelic: uair
→ Proto-Brythonic: *ǫr
- Breton: eur
- Welsh: awr
→ Romanian: oră

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, 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

(chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

horen

Noun

hora m or f

definite feminine singular of hore

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hora f

definite singular of hore

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hōra f

whore, adulteress

Declension

Declension of hōra (on-stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hōra	hōran	hōru(r), -o(r)	hōruna(r), -ona(r)
accusative	hōru, -o	hōruna, -ona	hōru(r), -o(r)	hōruna(r), -ona(r)
dative	hōru, -o	hōrunni, -onne	hōrum, -om	hōrumin, -omen
genitive	hōru, -o	hōrunna(r), -onna(r)	hōra	hōranna

Descendants

Swedish: hora

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾɐ/

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

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hora.

Derived terms

horinha (diminutive)

Descendants

Chichewa: ola
Kabuverdianu: óra
Papiamentu: ora

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhora]

Noun

hora f

definite nominative/accusative singular of horă

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-hóra (infinitive guhóra, perfective -hóze)

to be(come) quiet, be(come) calm
to be(come) cold, cool
to always or continuously do

Derived terms

amahoro (“peace”)
buhoro

Verb

-hōra (infinitive guhōra, perfective -hōye)

to avenge

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦora]
Audio (file)

Noun

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

mountain

Declension

Declension of hora

	singular	plural
nominative	hora	hory
genitive	hory	hôr
dative	hore	horám
accusative	horu	hory
locative	hore	horách
instrumental	horou	horami

Derived terms

horár
horička
horský
hôrka
hôrny

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoɾa/ [ˈo.ɾa]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
Rhymes: -oɾa
Syllabification: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

hour (a time period of sixty minutes)
Hay veinticuatro horas por el día.
There are twenty-four hours in a day.
time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device)
¿Qué hora es?
What time is it?
Ya es hora de ir.
It's time to go.
high time (usually with "ya")
Ya es hora de ser abiertos y honestos entre nosotros.
It's high time we be open and honest with each other.
(education) hour, period (of class)
Tengo un examen a primera hora mañana.
I have a test during first period tomorrow.
Tenemos juntos la tercera hora.
We have third period together.
(Spain, colloquial) appointment (e.g. with the doctor)
Synonym: cita

Derived terms

a buena hora
a buenas horas
a la hora de
altas horas
a mil por hora
a primera hora
a su hora
a toda hora
a todas horas
a última hora
con la hora pegada al culo
dar la hora
deshora
de última hora
enhorabuena
enhoramala
entre horas
hora de dormir, hora de acostarse (“bedtime”)
hora de verdad
hora legal
hora muerta
hora pico
hora punta
horas de trabajo (“working hours”)
horas extraordinarias (“overtime”)
horas extras
media hora
no se ganó Zamora en una hora
no ver la hora
por hora
qué hora es
última hora
ya era hora

Related terms

ahora
horario
horóscopo

Descendants

Papiamentu: ora

Borrowings

→ Bikol Central: oras
→ Cebuano: oras
→ Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: hora
→ Karao: oras
→ Maranao: oras
→ Navajo: óola
→ Quechua: ura
→ Tagalog: oras
→ Taos: ùroʼóna
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: ura
→ Yogad: oras

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.

Pronunciation

audio (file)
IPA^(key): /huːra/

Noun

hora c

whore

Declension

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

Verb

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

to whore
(dated) to engage in adultery or fornication (sex with someone who is not one's spouse, or sex while unmarried)

Conjugation

Conjugation of hora (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	hora		—
Supine	horat		—
Imperative	hora		—
Imper. plural¹	horen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	horar	horade	—	—
Ind. plural¹	hora	horade	—	—
Subjunctive²	hore	horade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	horande
Past participle	—
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

hor
horbock
horeri
horig
horkarl
horklut
horunge

Anagrams

hoar

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

hora

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

References

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

Noun

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Noun

Faroese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Noun

Galician

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Interlingua

Noun

Derived terms

Italian

Noun

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Middle English

Determiner

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Old Swedish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Quotations