Haar

See also: haar and hår

English

Proper noun

Haar

  1. A municipality near Munich, Germany.

See also
  • Haar matrix
  • Haar sequence
  • Haar system
  • Haar transform
  • Haar wavelet

Anagrams

German
Haare

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).

Compare Dutch haar, West Frisian hier, English hair, Danish hår.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /haːr/, [haːʁ], [haːɐ̯], [haː]
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  • Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Noun

Haar n (strong, genitive Haares or Haars, plural Haare, diminutive Härchen n)

  1. hair

Usage notes
  • When referring to a person's hair collectively, the singular may be used with no article, as is common in English: Sie hat graues Haar. – "She has grey hair." However in German, unlike English, it is more common to use the plural: Sie hat graue Haare. When referring to an individual hair, the indefinite article is used: Sie hat ein graues Haar. – "She has a (single) grey hair".

Declension
Declension of Haar [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Haar die Haare
genitive eines des Haares, Haars der Haare
dative einem dem Haar, Haare1 den Haaren
accusative ein das Haar die Haare

1Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading
  • “Haar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Haar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Haar” in Duden online
  • Haar on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

Haar n

  1. (anatomy) hair
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