half-hour

See also: half hour

English

Alternative forms

• half hour

Etymology

half- +‎ hour

Noun

half-hour (plural half-hours)

1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
   • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 121:

     The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]

     Used in both senses.

Synonyms

• (a thirty minute period of time): half an hour

Derived terms

• half-hourly

Translations

period

• Arabic: نِصْف سَاعَة (niṣf sāʕa)
• Belarusian: паўгадзі́ны (paŭhadzíny)
• Burmese: နာရီဝက် (my) (nariwak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 半小時／半小时 (zh) (bànxiǎoshí)

• Czech: půlhodina (cs) f
• Dutch: halfuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: duonhoro
• Finnish: puoli tuntia, puolituntinen
• French: demi-heure (fr) f
• German: halbe Stunde f
• Greek: μισάωρο (el) n (misáoro), ημίωρο (el) n (imíoro)

  Ancient Greek: ἡμιώριον n (hēmiṓrion)

• Icelandic: hálftími m
• Irish: leathuair
• Italian: mezz'ora (it) f
• Japanese: 半時間 (ja) (はんじかん, hanjikan)
• Korean: 반시간(半時間) (bansigan)
• Latin: sēmihōra f
• Lithuanian: pusvalanduko
• Norman: démi-heuthe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halvtime m

  Nynorsk: halvtime m

• Old English: healf tīd f
• Polish: pół godziny
• Portuguese: meia hora f
• Russian: полчаса́ (ru) n pl (polčasá)
• Swedish: halvtimme (sv) c, halvtimma (sv) c
• Ukrainian: півгоди́ни (pivhodýny)

time

• Finnish: puoli (fi)
• Portuguese: meia (pt) f
• Swedish: halv (sv)