Haar

See also: haar and hår

English

Proper noun

Haar

1. A municipality near Munich, Germany.

See also

• Frank-ter Haar syndrome
• Haar matrix
• Haar sequence
• Haar system
• Haar transform
• Haar wavelet
• ter Haar syndrome

Anagrams

• Hara

German

Haare

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).

Compare Dutch haar, West Frisian hier, English hair, Danish hår.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːr/, [haːʁ], [haːɐ̯], [haː]

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Noun

Haar n (strong, genitive Haares or Haars, plural Haare, diminutive Härchen n)

1. hair (a singular hair, not limited to the head)
2. (collective) hair (the totality of hair on someone's head)

Usage notes

• When referring to a person's hair collectively, the singular may be used with no article, as is common in English: Sie hat graues Haar. – "She has grey hair." However in German, unlike English, it is more common to use the plural: Sie hat graue Haare. When referring to an individual hair, the indefinite article is used: Sie hat ein graues Haar. – "She has a (single) grey hair".

Declension

Declension of Haar [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Haar	die	Haare
genitive	eines	des	Haares, Haars	der	Haare
dative	einem	dem	Haar, Haare1	den	Haaren
accusative	ein	das	Haar	die	Haare

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Barthaar
• behaart
• Haar in der Suppe
• haarähnlich
• haarartig
• Haaresbreite
• Haarfarbe
• Haarfärbung
• haargenau
• haarig
• Haarpflege
• Haarpflegeset
• Haarschnitt
• Haarshampoo
• Haarspray
• haarsträubend
• Haartönung
• Haarwaschmittel
• Schamhaar
• Schnurrhaar

See also

• Haut

Further reading

• “Haar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Haar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Haar” in Duden online
• Haar on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

Haar n

1. (anatomy) hair