hora

From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”).^[1] Doublet of choir, chorus, and quire.

hora (plural horas)

2. (dance) A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”). Doublet of hour and year.

hora (uncountable)

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

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

From Latin hōra (“hour”).

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

Inherited from Old Catalan hora, borrowed from Latin hōra (“hour”) (borrowing is indicated by the late attestation and pronunciation with open /ɔ/). First attested in the 14th century.

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

• Audio:

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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)
4. appointment

   Synonym: cita

   Tinc hora al metge. ― I've got an appointment with the doctor.

• “hora”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “hora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

• hůra (dialectal)

Inherited from Old Czech hora, from Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦora]

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hora f

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

• “hora”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “hora”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hora”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Spanish hora.

hora

1. hour.

From Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːɹa/
• Rhymes: -oːɹa

hora f (genitive singular horu, plural horur)

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

• (prostitute): skøkja f
• (tusk, cusk): brosma f

From Romanian horă.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhorɑ/, [ˈho̞rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ho‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): ho‧ra

hora

1. hora (dance)

• Arho, arho, haro, ohra

Inherited from Latin hōra.

hora f (plural hores) (ORB, broad)

1. hour

• heure in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• hora in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of ora.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔɾɐ], [ˈoɾɐ]

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “hora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “hora”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “hora”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “hora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

hora (plural horas)

1. hour

• libro de horas Book of hours

hora f (plural hore)

1. (obsolete) alternative form of ora

• Raho

hora

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほら

hora f

1. alternative spelling of ora
   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[1], numbers 11-34, page 68:

     A fin de no dar lugar a una aglomeracion en masa, los interesados son rogados de querer bien apresurarsen a retirar los billetos de entrada en los días y las horas fixadas.

     In order to leave no room for mass settlement, the interested are implored to want to really hurry up taking out the entry tickets on the fixed days and hours.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.ra]

hōra f (genitive hōrae); first declension

1. hour
   • c. 1050?, Ave Maria (Hail Mary)

     Et in hora mortis nostrae.

     And in the hour of our death.

2. time
   • c. 2 A.D., Ovid, Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love, ELEGY XI)

     Dum loquor, hora fugit.

     Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.

3. o'clock
4. season; time of year

First-declension noun.

• ad hōram
• hāc hōrā
• hanc hōram

Borrowings

• “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^[2], 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

hora

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) alternative form of here (“their”)

• horen

hora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of hore

hora f

1. definite singular of hore

• hóra

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gora.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɣora/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈɦora/

hora f

1. mountain

   spěti z hory ― to rise (sun)

   spěti k hořě ― to set (sun)

2. rock
3. pile
4. mountain mine
5. winery

   vinničná/vinná/vinohradnie/vinohradná hora ― winery

• Czech: hora, hůra (dialectal)

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hora”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

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

hōra f

1. whore, adulteress

• Swedish: hora

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

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

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

hora f (plural horas)

2. hour (period of sixty minutes)

   Há vinte e quatro horas num dia.

   There are twenty-four hours in a day.

   Ele estava aqui há uma hora.

   He was here one hour ago.

4. time (point in time)

   A alguma hora, eu passo aí.

   At some time, I’ll hop over there.

   Que horas são?

   What time is it?

   É hora de dar tchau.

   It's time to say goodbye.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hora.

• → Chichewa: ola
• → Guajajára: 'or
• Kabuverdianu: óra
• Macanese: ora
• Papiamentu: ora

• IPA^(key): [ˈhora]

hora f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of horă

From Proto-Bantu *-póda.

-hóra (infinitive guhóra, perfective -hóze)

1. to be(come) quiet, be(come) calm
2. to be(come) cold, cool
3. to always or continuously do

• amahoro (“peace”)
• buhoro

-hōra (infinitive guhōra, perfective -hōye)

1. to avenge

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɔra]

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hora f

1. mountain

• horár
• horička
• horský
• hôrka
• hôrny

• “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, 2003–2025

Inherited from Latin hōra (“hour”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾa/ [ˈo.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: ho‧ra

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)

   Synonym: cita

• “hora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old Swedish hōra, from Old Norse hóra, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear, loved”). Compare Danish hore, English whore, Dutch hoer, German Hure. Doublet of kär.

• IPA^(key): /huːra/

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hora c

1. (vulgar) a whore (prostitute)

   Synonyms: fnask, gatflicka, glädjeflicka, luder, (man whore) manshora, nattfjäril, prostituerad, sexarbetare, sexsäljare, sköka, slinka

2. (derogatory) a whore (promiscuous person, slut)
3. (derogatory) a whore (person offering themselves in some non-sexual capacity in a way perceived as indicating a lack of self-respect)
4. (derogatory) a whore (contemptible person)

hora (present horar, preterite horade, supine horat, imperative hora)

1. to whore
2. (figuratively) to whore (offer oneself in a way perceived as indicating a lack of self-respect)

   Han verkar hora ut sig till vilka tveksamma sponsorer som helst

   He seems to whore himself out to any dubious sponsor whatsoever

3. (dated) to engage in adultery or fornication (sex with someone who is not one's spouse, or sex while unmarried)

• horbock
• horkarl
• horklut
• horunge
• svennehora

• hor
• horeri
• horig

• hora in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hora in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hora in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

• hoar