horo

See also: ĥoro, horō, hōrō, hörö, and horo-

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 母衣(ほろ) (horo, “cloak”).

Noun

horo (plural horos)

  1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows.

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɦoro]

Noun

horo f

  1. vocative singular of hora

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”). Compare French heure, Italian ora, Spanish hora, Romanian oară, German Uhr, Dutch uur, Welsh awr.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈhoro]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -oro
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ro

Noun

horo (accusative singular horon, plural horoj, accusative plural horojn)

  1. hour (period of 60 minutes)
    Estas dudek kvar horoj tage. ― There are twenty-four hours in a day.
    Estas la oka horo. ― It's eight o'clock. (literally, “It is the eighth hour.”)
  2. time (of day)
    Kioma horo estas? ― What time is it? (literally, “Which hour is it?”)

Hypernyms

Finnish

Etymology

Probably an alteration of huora (or earlier hoora), possibly by association with an earlier dialectal horo (“crack, hole”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhoro/, [ˈho̞ro̞]
  • Rhymes: -oro
  • Syllabification(key): ho‧ro

Noun

horo

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) ho, slut, whore

Declension
Inflection of horo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative horo horot
genitive horon horojen
partitive horoa horoja
illative horoon horoihin
singular plural
nominative horo horot
accusative nom. horo horot
gen. horon
genitive horon horojen
partitive horoa horoja
inessive horossa horoissa
elative horosta horoista
illative horoon horoihin
adessive horolla horoilla
ablative horolta horoilta
allative horolle horoille
essive horona horoina
translative horoksi horoiksi
instructive — horoin
abessive horotta horoitta
comitative — horoineen
Possessive forms of horo (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person horoni horomme
2nd person horosi horonne
3rd person horonsa

Anagrams

Ido

Noun

horo (plural hori)

  1. hour

Japanese

Romanization

horo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほろ

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.

Noun

horo n

  1. mud

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Middle Dutch: hōre

Further reading
  • “horo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.

Noun

horo n (genitive horowes)

  1. swampy soil

Yoruba
Àwòrán hóró ẹ̀jẹ̀ pupa ti ibà tí kóràn

Etymology 1

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense, the root may be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɣó (“small”), which may link this word as a Doublet of owó (money)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hó.ɾó/

Ideophone

hóró

  1. (of a small round object) being in small quantity

Noun

hóró

  1. seed, tablet
    Synonym: irúgbìn
  2. (by extension, biology, cytology) cell
Derived terms
  • hóró kòkó (“cocoa bean”)
  • hóró-hóró

Etymology 2

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hō.ɾō/

Ideophone

horo

  1. of a roundish confined space

Noun

horo

  1. a confined, narrow alley

Etymology 3

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hò.ɾò/

Noun

hòrò

  1. deep pit or hole
    Synonyms: ọ̀gbun, kòtò
Derived terms
  • hòrò imú (“nostril”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hō.ɾó/

Noun

horó

  1. table
    Synonyms: ọpọ́n, tábìlì
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