hora

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

English

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hóre) and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).

Noun

hora (plural horas)

1. 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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”).

Noun

hora (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

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

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Noun

hora m (plural hores)

1. hour
2. time

   ¿Qué hora ye?

   What time is it?

3. o'clock

   les 19.00 hores

   7:00 pm

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.ɾa]

Noun

hora f (plural hores)

1. hour (sixty minutes)
2. time (the moment as indicated by a clock)

   Quina hora és?

   What time is it?

3. time (the appropriate hour to do something)

Derived terms

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

 

Further reading

• “hora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “hora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “hora” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “hora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦora/

• audio:

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Noun

hora f

1. mountain
2. (colloquial) a lot, tons

Derived terms

• horal m
• horolezec m

Related terms

• horní
• náhorní
• horník m
• podhůří

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish hora

Noun

hora

1. hour.

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Faroese

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ros (“dear, loved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːɹa/
• Rhymes: -oːɹa

Noun

hora f (genitive singular horu, plural horur)

1. (vulgar) whore, (female) prostitute
2. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) slut
3. (nautical, humorous) tusk, cusk

Declension

Declension of hora
f1	singular		plural
	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

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɐ], [ˈoɾɐ]

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

1. hour
2. time of the day

   ¿Que hora é? — "What time is it?

3. regular or designated time for doing something

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Interlingua

Noun

hora (plural horas)

1. hour

Derived terms

• libro de horas Book of hours

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Italian

Noun

hora f (plural hore)

1. Obsolete form of ora.

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Japanese

Romanization

hora

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほら

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhoː.ra/, [ˈhoːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra/, [ˈɔːrä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

1. hour
2. time
   • Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI) by Publius Ovidius Naso

     Dum loquor, hora fugit.

     Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.

3. o'clock
4. season; time of year
5. vocative singular of hōra

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

• → Albanian: herë, orë
• Aromanian: oarã
• Asturian: hora
• Catalan: hora
• Corsican: ora
• Dalmatian: aura
• → Dutch: uur
• → English: hour
• French: heure
• Friulian: ore
• Galician: hora
• → German: Uhr
• → Hungarian: óra
• Istriot: ura
• Italian: ora
• Ladin: ora, ëura
• → Navajo: óola

• Norman: heuthe
• Occitan: ora
• → Old Irish: úar
  • Irish: uair
• → Plautdietsch: ua
• Portuguese: hora, ora
• Romanian: oară, oră
• Romansch: ura, oura
• Sardinian: òra
• Sicilian: ora, uora
• Spanish: hora
• Venetian: óra
• Walloon: eure
• → Welsh: awr

Noun

(deprecated template usage) hōrā f

1. ablative singular of hōra
   • From the prayer Ave Maria (Hail Mary)

     Et in hora mortis nostrae.

     And in the hour of our death.

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^[1], 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

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Middle English

Determiner

hora

1. (chiefly early and West Midland dialectal) Alternative form of here (“their”)

References

• “her(e (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• horen

Noun

hora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of hore

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hora f

1. definite singular of hore

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Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hōra f

1. 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾɐ/
• Homophone: ora
• Hyphenation: ho‧ra

Noun

hora f (plural s)

2. hour (period of sixty minutes)

   Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.

   There are twenty-four hours in a day.

4. time (point in time)

   Alguma hora eu passo aí.

   Some time I’ll hop over there.

   Que horas são?

   What time is it?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hora.

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Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔra/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. 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

Further reading

• “hora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾa/ [ˈo.ɾa]

Noun

hora f (plural horas)

1. hour (a time period of sixty minutes)

   Hay veinticuatro horas por el día. ― There are twenty-four hours in a day.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. (Spain, colloquial) appointment (e.g. with the doctor)

Derived terms

• a buena hora
• a buenas horas
• a mil por hora
• a primera hora
• a su hora
• a toda hora
• a todas horas
• altas horas
• de última hora
• deshora
• 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
• no se ganó Zamora en una hora
• no ver la hora
• qué hora es
• ya era hora

 

Related terms

• ahora
• horario
• horóscopo

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: oras

Further reading

• “hora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kāro-, *keh₂ro- (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure.

Pronunciation

• audio:

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Noun

hora c

1. whore

Declension

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

Verb

hora

1. whore

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

Anagrams

• hoar