haraz
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
haraz m (plural haraz)
Descendants
- French: haras
Old French
Etymology
According to Bratchet, from Arabic فرس (“horse”).[1] However, Watkins suggests Old Norse hárr (“greyhaired”), referring to the greying of horses with age, or hár (“hair”), referring to stud horses not being saddled.[2] Also compare Arabic رأس (“head”).[3]
Noun
haraz oblique singular, m (oblique plural haraz, nominative singular haraz, nominative plural haraz)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (haras, supplement)
- ^ Brachet, A. (1873) “haras”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
- ^ “race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Arabic
- Old French terms derived from Old Norse
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns