haraz

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Middle French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old French haraz.

Noun[edit]

haraz m (plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants[edit]

  • French: haras

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

According to Bratchet, from Arabic فَرَس (faras, 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 رَأْس (raʔs, head).[3]

Noun[edit]

haraz oblique singularm (oblique plural haraz, nominative singular haraz, nominative plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (haras, supplement)
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  3. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN