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har¹

  • /hɑː/ UK
  • /hɑɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English harre, herre, from Old English heorra (“hinge; cardinal point”), from Proto-West Germanic *herʀō, from Proto-Germanic *herzô (“hinge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”).

Cognate with Scots herre, harr, har (“hinge”), Dutch harre, her, har (“hinge”), Icelandic hjarri (“hinge”), Latin cardō (“hinge”).

noun hars · harr · harre

  1. dialectal A hinge.

har²

  • /hɑː/ UK
  • /hɑɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic.

interjection hardy har har

  1. A sound of laughter, sometimes with a sarcastic connotation. I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!

har³

  • /hɑː/ UK
  • /hɑɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).

particle

  1. Manglish, Singlish, alternative Alternative form of hah (interrogative particle).

Har⁴

Where it comes from

Abbreviation or ellipsis of Sanskrit हरि (hari)

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Hari

HAR⁵

noun HARs

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of human accelerated region

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: haugh, hot, warm, sir, rai, mdt, fok, have, govind, free, anand, gopal, huo, homa, jovanovich, has

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Chicago

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@misc{har_2026,
  title = {har},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/har},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}