Hair - Wiktionary

See also: Hair and haïr

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier, Híer (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Cimbrian haar, har (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German and Low German Haar (“hair”), Luxembourgish Hoer (“hair”), Mòcheno hor (“hair”), Yiddish האָר (hor, “hair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish hår (“hair”), Faroese and Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).

The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.

Pronunciation

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• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hâr, IPA(key): /ˈhɛə̯/

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  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈheːɹ/
  • (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)/
• (US, Canada, Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈhɛɚ/, [ˈhɛɹ̩]

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• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈheː/
  • (Western Australia) IPA(key): /ˈheə̯/
• (New Zealand)
  • (without the cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /ˈhe̝ə̯/
  • (cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /ˈhiə̯/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: hair
• Homophones: hare; air, heir (h-dropping); here (cheer–chair merger); her (fair–fur merger)

Noun

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hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (usually in the singular)

1. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 135:Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
2. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for any part or the whole body.
3. (uncountable) Specifically, the collection of hairs on the top and sides of the human head, growing from the scalp. Synonyms: thatch, mop In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
4. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
5. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
6. (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism. (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
7. (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
8. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
9. (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
   • January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.

Usage notes

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• The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb. George has (-) brown hair, but I found a hair on the sofa and suspect he's getting some gray hairs. George's hair is brown, but one hair I found was grey, so I think there are probably more grey hairs on his head as well.
• When a person's "hair" is discussed without further specification, this almost always refers to their scalp hair rather than hair anywhere else on the body. The latter is usually either called body hair or by specifying a particular body part.

Derived terms

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• angel's hair
• bacon hair
• beard hair
• blue hair
• broccoli hair
• dehair, dehairer
• good hair
• hair belt
• hair bobble
• hair-bowed
• hair bun
• hair-dresser, hair dresser, hairdresser
• haired, hairedness
• hairen
• hairful
• hair ice
• hairing
• hairist
• hairless, hairlessly
• hairlet
• hairlike, hair-like
• hair net
• hair-pulling disorder
• hair scale
• hairsedge
• hair system
• hair topper
• hairworker
• hairworking
• hairy, Old Hairy
• hang by a hair
• harm a hair on someone's head
• helfie
• hockey hair
• ice cream hair
• loose anagen hair syndrome
• love-hair
• macrohair
• mermaid's hair
• microhair
• nanohair
• netherhair, nether hair
• nonhair
• overhair
• peppercorn hair
• recession hair
• rehair
• Sabinas brittle hair syndrome
• underhair, underhaired
• unhair
• unhairing
• witch's hair

Compound adjectives

• black-haired
• brown-haired
• curlyhaired
• dark-haired
• fair-haired
• ginger-haired
• grey-haired
• hair-brown
• hair-on-fire
• hair-raising, hairraising
• long-haired
• silver-haired, silvery-haired
• tow-haired
• white-haired, whitehaired
• wirehaired
• yellow-haired

Noun phrases and compound nouns

• a hair past a freckle
• androgenic hair
• angel hair
• asshair
• axillary hair
• baby hair
• bad hair day
• ballhair
• bamboo hair
• bed hair
• Berenice's Hair
• big hair
• bluehair
• body hair
• brittle hair syndrome
• camelhair, camelshair
• cartilage-hair hypoplasia
• cathair
• chest hair
• club hair
• crosshair
• cunt hair
• curled hair
• deer-hair, deer's hair
• doghair
• ear hair
• facial hair
• frog hair
• goathair, goatshair
• guard hair
• gustatory hair
• hairball
• hairband, hair band
• hairbird
• hairbow
• hair bracket
• hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hair's breadth
• hair brush, hairbrush, hair brushing
• hair bulb
• hair bundle
• haircalf
• haircap
• haircare, hair care
• hair cell
• hair chalk
• hair clip, hairclip
• haircloth
• haircoat
• haircolor
• hair conditioner
• hair curler, hair-curling, haircurling
• haircut, haircutter, haircutting
• hair divider
• hairdo
• hairdress, hairdresser, hairdressing, hairdressing salon
• hair drop
• hairdryer, hair dryer
• hair dye
• hair elastic
• hair extension
• hair fairy
• hairfall
• hair follicle
• hair fork
• Hairgate
• hair gel
• hair glove
• hairgrass, hair grass
• hairgrip, hair grip
• hair in the gate
• hair iron
• hair jelly
• hair lace
• hairlift
• hair line, hairline
• hairlock
• hairlore
• hair loss
• hairmageddon
• hair mask
• hair match
• hair metal
• hairmonger
• hair moss
• hair moth
• hairnet
• hair of the dog (that bit one)
• hair oil
• hair pencil
• hair pie
• hairpiece
• hairpin, hair pin
• hair pipe
• hair plate
• hairplay
• hairpluck
• hair plug
• hair powder
• hairpuller, hairpulling
• hair-raiser
• hair restorer
• hair rig
• hair roller
• hair salon
• hair-salt, hair salt
• hair seal
• hair seating
• hairshaft
• hair shirt, hairshirt
• hair sieve
• hairslide
• hair snake
• hair space
• hairsplit, hairsplitter, hair-splitter, hair-splittery, hairsplitting, hair-splitting
• hairspray, hair spray
• hairspring
• hair stick
• hair stone
• hairstreak
• hairstring
• hair stroke
• hairstyle, hairstyler, hairstyling, hair styling, hairstylist, hair stylist
• hairswidth
• hairtail
• hair-tidy
• hair tie
• hair tonic
• hair trigger, hair-trigger
• hair twist
• hairwash, hairwashing
• hair wax
• hairwear
• hairweaving
• hairwork
• hairworm
• hat hair
• headhair, head of hair
• helmet hair
• horsehair
• kinky hair disease
• lady's hair
• longhair, long hair
• long hair sedge
• maidenhair, maid's hair
• manhair
• Menkes kinky hair syndrome
• moosehair
• no-hair theorem
• nose hair
• nostril hair
• Pele's hair
• pubic hair
• red hair
• red pussy hair, red cunt hair
• root hair
• sex hair
• shorthair, short hairs
• stadia hair
• steely hair disease
• swimmer's hair
• terminal hair
• uncombable hair syndrome
• vellus hair
• Venus hair fern
• Venus's hair stone
• wild hair
• wirehair, wirehaired

Predicates

• comb one's hair
• comb someone's hair the wrong way
• curl someone's hair, make someone's hair curl
• get grey hair from
• get in someone's hair
• get out of someone's hair
• give someone grey hair, give grey hair to
• have a wild hair to
• keep one's hair on
• let one's hair down
• long hair don't care
• make someone's hair stand on end
• not turn a hair
• not worth a hair
• one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
• part one's hair
• pull one's hair out
• put hair on someone's chest, put hair on one's chest
• set one's hair on fire, light one's hair on fire, run around with one's hair on fire
• split hairs
• tear one's hair, tear one's hair out
• turn a hair

Prepositional and other phrases

• against the hair
• by a hair's breadth
• fine as frog('s) hair, finer than frog hair
• hair out of place
• (neither) hide nor hair
• to (the turn of) a hair

Unsorted

• a hair past a freckle
• androgenic hair
• angel hair
• Antarctic hair grass
• axillary hair
• baby hair
• bamboo hair
• big hair
• body hair
• brittle hair syndrome
• camel-hair brush
• cartilage-hair hypoplasia
• chest hair
• club hair
• comb one's hair
• comb someone's hair the wrong way
• cunt hair
• curled hair
• deer-hair
• deer's hair
• fine as frog hair
• fine as frog's hair
• finer than frog hair
• frog hair
• get gray hair from
• get grey hair from
• get in someone's hair
• get out of someone's hair
• give gray hair to
• give grey hair to
• give someone gray hair
• give someone grey hair
• guard hair
• gustatory hair
• hair band
• hair-brown
• hair-brush
• hair brushing
• hair bulb
• hair bundle
• hair cell
• hair chalk
• hair clip
• hair-clip
• hair conditioner
• hair curling
• hair cut
• hair divider
• hair-dryer
• hair elastic
• hair extension
• hair fairy
• hair fork
• hair grass
• hair grip
• hair-grip
• hair in the gate
• hair iron
• hair jelly
• hair loss
• hair mask
• hair match
• hair metal
• hair of the dog that bit one
• hair oil
• hair out of place
• hair pie
• hair pin
• hair pipe
• hair plug
• hair-raiser
• hair raiser
• hair raising
• hair-raisingly
• hair restorer
• hair rig
• hair salon
• hair salt
• hair-salt
• hair-shirt
• hair-shirted
• hair-splitter
• hair-splittery
• hair-splitting
• hair-splittingly
• hair stick
• hair stone
• hair styling
• hair stylist
• hair-tidy
• hair tonic
• hair trigger
• hair twist
• hair wax
• keep one's hair on
• kinky hair disease
• lady's hair
• light one's hair on fire
• long hair
• long hair don't care
• long hair sedge
• maiden-hair
• maid's hair
• make someone's hair curl
• make someone's hair stand on end
• Menkes kinky hair syndrome
• nether hair
• nether-hair
• one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
• Pele's hair
• pull one's hair out
• put hair on one's chest
• put hair on someone's chest
• red cunt hair
• red hair
• red pussy hair
• re-hair
• root hair
• run around with one's hair on fire
• sex hair
• stadia hair
• steely hair disease
• swimmer's hair
• tear one's hair
• terminal hair
• to the turn of a hair
• turn a hair
• uncombable hair syndrome
• vellus hair
• Venus hair fern
• Venus's hair stone

Collocations

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• Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

Translations

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Abaga: azoḳaʔe Aklanon: buebue Albanian: flok (sq) Arabic: شَعْرَة f (šaʕra) Armenian: մազ (hy) (maz) Azerbaijani: tük (az) (on head), qıl (on body) Bashkir: сәс (səs), ҡыл (qıl) (fallen, esp. unwanted) Basque: ile (eu) Belarusian: во́лас m (vólas), валасі́нка f (valasínka) Bhojpuri: बार (bār) Bulgarian: ко́съм (bg) m (kósǎm) Catalan: pèl (ca) m Cebuano: bulbol Chinese: Mandarin: 毛 (zh) (máo), 頭髮 / 头发 (zh) (tóufa) Cornish: blewen f Czech: vlas (cs) m, chlup (cs) n Dalmatian: pail m Danish: hår (da) n Dutch: haar (nl) m Erzya: пона (pona) Esperanto: haro (eo) Estonian: karv, karvad pl Even: нюрит (ņurit) Evenki: нюриктэ (ņuriktə) Faroese: hár (fo) n Finnish: hius (fi) (on human head); karva (fi) (elsewhere on human body, on mammals); jouhi (fi) (horsehair or similar) French: poil (fr) m Old French: poil m Frisian: West Frisian: hier (fy) n Friulian: pêl m Galician: pelo (gl) m, cabelo (gl) m German: Haar (de) n Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 n (tagl) Greek: τρίχα (el) f (trícha) Ancient Greek: θρίξ f (thríx) Guarani: Mbya Guarani: 'a Hawaiian: huluhulu Hebrew: שַׂעֲרָה (he) f (sa'ará) Hindi: बाल (hi) (bāl), केश (hi) m (keś) Hungarian: hajszál (hu), szőrszál (hu) Indonesian: bulu (id) Irish: ribe m Italian: pelo (it) m Japanese: 毛 (ja) (け, ke) Javanese: wulu (jv) Old Javanese: wulu Kabuverdianu: kabelu Kaitag: гъиз (ɣiz) Korean: 털 (ko) (teol), 머리 (ko) (meori) (on the head) Latin: pilus m, capillus m Latvian: mats (lv) m Lithuanian: plaukas m Livonian: kōra Luganda: enviiri Lushootseed: sq'ədᶻuʔ Lutuv: suo Macedonian: влакно (mk) n (vlakno) Maguindanao: bumbul Malay: bulu (ms) Manobo: Western Bukidnon Manobo: bulvul Maranao: bolbol Marathi: केस m (kes) Moksha: пона (pona) Mongolian: Cyrillic: үс (mn) (üs) Mongolian script: ᠦᠰᠦ (üsü) Nanai: нуктэ (nukte) Neapolitan: pelo m Norwegian: Bokmål: hårstrå n Nynorsk: hårstrå n Occitan: pel (oc) m Ojibwe: (my hair) niinizis Old English: hær Old Tupi: aba Polish: włos (pl) m Portuguese: pelo (pt) m Rapa Nui: rau'oho Romanian: fir de păr n Romansh: chavel m, pail m, peil, pel Russian: во́лос (ru) m (vólos), волоси́нка (ru) f (volosínka), волоси́на (ru) f (volosína) Sami: Northern Sami: vuoktačalbmi Sardinian: pilu, piu Scottish Gaelic: fuiltean m, fuilteaneana m pl, fuilteaneine m pl, gaoisnean m, gaoisneinean m pl, ribe m, ribeachan m pl, ròin f, ròinean f pl, ròineag f, ròineagan f pl Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дла̏ка f, вла̑с f Latin: dlȁka (sh) f, vlȃs (sh) f Sicilian: pilu (scn) m Slovak: chlp, srsť Slovene: dlaka (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: włos m Spanish: pelo (es) m, cabello (es) m, capilar (es) (attributive), piloso (es) (attributive) Swahili: nywele (sw) Swedish: hårstrå (sv) n Sylheti: ꠌꠥꠟ (sul) Tagalog: buhok (tl), bulbol, balahibo Tahitian: huruhuru Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi) Tetum: fulun Tok Pisin: gras Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: توی (tüy), قیل (qıl) Ukrainian: волоси́на f (volosýna), во́лос (uk) m (vólos) Uzbek: soch (uz) Woiwurrung: yarra Yakut: баттах (battaq) Yiddish: האָר f (hor) Zazaki: purt f, muw f Zealandic: 'aer n

mass of such filaments on the human head

Abkhaz: ахәы (axʷə) Acehnese: o', ôk Afar: xagor Afrikaans: haar (af) Ahom: 𑜇𑜤𑜪 (phuṃ) Ainu: ヌマ (numa) Aiton: please add this translation if you can Akkadian: 𒋠 (šārtu) Aklanon: buhok Albanian: qime (sq) Altai: Southern Altai: чач (čač) Amharic: ፀጉር (ṣ́ägur) Ao: ku (Chungli) Arabic: شَعْر (ar) (šaʕr), شَعْرَة f (šaʕra) Egyptian Arabic: شعر m (šaʕr) (collective), شعرة f (šaʕra) (singulative) Gulf Arabic: شعر m (šaʕar) (collective), شعرة f (šaʕra) (singulative) Archi: чӏааӏри (čʼaạri) Armenian: մազեր (hy) (mazer) Aromanian: per m Arrernte: Eastern Arrernte: alte Assamese: চুলি (suli) Asturian: pelu (ast) m Azerbaijani: saç (az) Bambara: kunsi Bashkir: сәс (səs) Basque: ile (eu) Bats: ბეჯ (beǯ) Belarusian: (head of~) валасы́ m pl (valasý), (individual) во́лас m (vólas) Bengali: চুল (bn) (cul) Bhojpuri: 𑂍𑂵𑂬 (keś), 𑂕𑂷𑂀𑂗 (jhõṭ), केस (kēs) Bikol: Central Bikol: buhok (bcl) Borôro: ao Breton: blev (br) Budukh: чӏер (čʼer) Bulgarian: коса́ (bg) m (kosá) Burmese: ဆံပင် (my) (hcampang) Catalan: cabell (ca) m, pèl (ca) m Cebuano: buhok Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵣⴰⵔ (azzar) Chamicuro: shenu Chamorro: pulu Chechen: месаш pl (mesaš) Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏘᎬᎢ (ustigvi) Chinese: Cantonese: 頭髮 / 头发 (yue) (tau4 faat3) Dungan: туфа (tufa) Eastern Min: 頭髮 / 头发 (tàu-huók) Gan: 頭髮 / 头发 (teu2 fat) Hakka: 頭髮 / 头发 (thèu-fat) Hokkien: 頭毛 / 头毛 (zh-min-nan) (thâu-mn̂g, thâu-mô͘, thâu-mo͘), 頭鬃 / 头鬃 (zh-min-nan) (thâu-chang) Jin: 頭髮 / 头发 (tou1 fah4) Mandarin: 頭髮 / 头发 (zh) (tóufa) Wu: 頭髮 / 头发 Xiang: 頭髮 / 头发 (tou2 fa6) Chuvash: ҫӳҫ (śüś) Circassian: East Circassian: щхьэц (kbd) (śḥɛc) West Circassian: шъхьэц (ŝḥɛc) Coptic: ϥⲱⲓ m (fōi), ⲧⲣⲓⲭⲟⲥ m (trikhos) Cornish: blew, gols (collective) Czech: vlasy (cs) m pl, (individual) vlas (cs) m Danish: hår (da) n Dolgan: ас Dutch: haar (nl) n Egyptian: (šnj m) Enga: iti Erzya: черь (čeŕ) Esperanto: haro (eo) (individual), hararo (eo) (collection) Estonian: juuksed (et) pl Ewe: ɖa Faroese: hár (fo) n Finnish: hiukset (fi) pl, tukka (fi) French: cheveu (fr) m (individual), cheveux (fr) m (usually plural), chevelure (fr) f (collection) Old French: cheveu m Frisian: Saterland Frisian: Hier n West Frisian: hier (fy) n Friulian: cjaveli m (individual), čhavêl m (individual) Galician: cabelo (gl) m, pelo (gl) m Georgian: თმა (ka) (tma) German: Haar (de) n (individual), Haare (de) n (usually plural) Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 n (skuft) Greek: μαλλί (el) n (mallí), μαλλιά (el) n (malliá) Ancient Greek: κόμη f (kómē), τρίχες f pl (tríkhes) Greenlandic: nujaq Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) akãrague Gujarati: વાળ (gu) m (vāḷ), કેશ m (keś) Haitian Creole: cheve Hawaiian: lauoho Hebrew: שיער / שֵׂעָר (he) m (se'ár) Higaonon: buhuk Hindi: बाल (hi) m (bāl), केश (hi) m (keś), जटा (hi) f (jaṭā), वाल (hi) m (vāl), केस (hi) m (kes), चूल (hi) m (cūl) Hmong: White Hmong: plaub hau Hungarian: haj (hu) Icelandic: hár (is) n Ido: haro (io) (individual), hararo (io) (collection) Ilocano: buok Indonesian: rambut (id) Ingrian: hiukset, tukka Ingush: мосаш (mosaš) Interlingua: capillo Inuktitut: ᓄᔭᑦ (noyat) Irish: gruaig (ga) f, folt m Old Irish: folt m Istro-Romanian: per Italian: capello (it) m (individual), capelli (it) m pl (usually plural) Japanese: 髪の毛 (ja) (かみのけ, kami no ke), 髪 (ja) (かみ, kami), 頭髪 (ja) (とうはつ, tōhatsu) (formally) Javanese: rambut (jv), réma (krama inggil) Jeju: 머리꺼럭 (meorikkeoreok), 머리털 (meoriteol), 머리터럭 (meoriteoreok), 머리까락 (meorikkarak) (Bongseong, Joseong, Nohyeong), 머리껄 (meorikkeol) Kabuverdianu: kabelu Kamba: nzue Kannada: ಕೇಶ (kn) (kēśa), ಕೂದಲು (kn) (kūdalu) Kapampangan: buak Karakhanid: سَجْ (sač) Kashubian: włos m Kazakh: шаш (kk) (şaş) Khmer: សក់ (km) (sɑk) Kikuyu: jwere Kituba: nsuki Klamath-Modoc: laq Korean: 머리칼 (ko) (meorikal), 머리카락 (ko) (meorikarak), 머리 (ko) (meori), 머리털 (ko) (meoriteol) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: قژ (ckb) (qij) Northern Kurdish: pirç (ku), por (ku) Kyrgyz: чач (ky) (cac) Lao: ຜົມ (phom) Latgalian: mots Latin: coma f, crīnis m or f Latvian: mats (lv) m, mati (lv) pl Laz: თომა (toma) Lezgi: чӏар (č̣ar) Lingala: nsuki Lithuanian: plaukai, (single piece) plaukas m Low German: Hoor n Lü: ᦕᦳᧄ (ṗhum) Luhya: lichune Luo: yie wich Luxembourgish: Hoer (lb) n, Hoer (lb) pl Macedonian: коса (mk) f (kosa) (collective), прамен m (pramen) (strand of hair), влакно (mk) n (vlakno) (single piece of hair) Madurese: obu' (mad) Magahi: 𑂒𑂳𑂪 (cul), 𑂍𑂵𑂬 (kes), 𑂕𑂷𑂀𑂗 (jhõṭ) Maguindanao: buk Malagasy: volo (mg) Malay: rambut (ms) Brunei Malay: rambut Maltese: xagħar m Manchu: ᡶᡠᠨᡳᠶᡝᡥᡝ (funiyehe) Manipuri: ꯁꯝ (mni) (sam) Manx: gruag f, folt m Māori: uru, weu, makawe (mi) Maranao: bok Marathi: केस n (kes) Mingrelian: თომა (toma) Miwok: Central Sierra Miwok: juše- Mizo: sam Mòcheno: hor n Moksha: шяярь (šäjäŕ) Mongolian: Cyrillic: үс (mn) (üs) Mongolian script: ᠦᠰᠦ (üsü) Muong: thắc Nahuatl: tzontli (nah) Nama: ǀûn Navajo: atsiighaʼ Neapolitan: capello m Nepali: कपाल (ne) (kapāl) Nga La: sam Norman: g'veu m (individual), g'veux m (plural) Norwegian: Bokmål: hår (no) n Nynorsk: hår n Nuer: nhim Occitan: cabel (oc) m, pel (oc) m Odia: କେଶ (or) (keśa) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: власъ m (vlasŭ) Glagolitic: ⰲⰾⰰⱄⱏ m (vlasŭ) Old East Slavic: волосъ m (volosŭ) Old English: feax n, hǣr n, wiffeax n (of a woman) Old Tupi: 'aba Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰲 (s¹č /⁠sač⁠/) Oromo: rifeensa Ossetian: сӕрыхъуын (særyqwyn) Pangasinan: buek Pannonian Rusyn: власи m pl (vlasi) Papiamentu: kabei Pashto: ویښتان (waṣ̌tan), وېښته (ps) m (wex̌tǝ) Pela: tsʰɛ̃⁵⁵ Pennsylvania German: Haar n Persian: Dari: مو (fa) (mō), مُو (mū), گیس (fa) (gēs) Iranian Persian: مو (fa) (mu), گیس (fa) (gis) Phake: please add this translation if you can Pitjantjatjara: mangka Plautdietsch: Hoa f Polish: włosy (pl) m pl, (individual) włos (pl) m Portuguese: cabelo (pt) m Punjabi: ਵਾਲ m (vāl), ਬਾਲ m (bāl), ਕੇਸ m (kes) Purepecha: jauiri Quechua: chukcha Canka Quechua: cukca Waiwaş Quechua: agza Wanka Quechua: agca Rapa Nui: rau'oho Rohingya: sul Romani: bal m Romanian: păr (ro) m Romansh: chavel m, tgavel m, chavè m, cavegl m (individual) Russian: во́лосы (ru) m pl (vólosy) (usually plural), во́лос (ru) m (vólos) (individual), волоси́нка (ru) f (volosínka) Saek: ผรั่ม Saho: dagar Sami: Inari Sami: vuoptâ (individual), vuoptah pl Kildin Sami: вӯппт (vūppt) (individual) Northern Sami: vuokta (individual), vuovttat pl Skolt Sami: vuõptt (individual), vuõpt pl Southern Sami: voepte (individual), voepth pl Sanskrit: केश (sa) m (keśa), वाल (sa) (vāla) Santali: ᱩᱵᱽ (sat) Scots: hair Scottish Gaelic: falt m, fuiltean m pl, gruag f, gruagan m pl Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (collective) ко̀са f, (individual) дла̏ка f Latin: (collective) kòsa (sh) f, (individual) dlȁka (sh) f Shan: ၽူမ် (shn) (phǔum) Sicilian: capiḍḍi m, capiḍḍu m (individual) Sidamo: danana Sinhalese: කොඳ (koⁿda) Slovak: vlasy m pl, (individual) vlas m Slovene: las m Somali: timo Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: włos m or f Upper Sorbian: włós m Sotho: moriri Spanish: cabello (es) m, pelo (es) m, pelamen (es) m (colloquial), cabellera (es) f, pelambrera (es) f Sumerian: 𒋠 (SÍK) Sundanese: rambut, bu-uk Svan: ფა̈თვ (pätv) Swahili: unywele class 11/12 Swedish: hår (sv) n Sylheti: ꠌꠥꠟ (sul) Tabasaran: чӏар (č̣ar) Tagalog: buhok (tl) Tahitian: huruhuru, rouru Tajik: мӯ (mü‍) Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi) Taos: phóna Tarantino: capìdde m Tatar: чәч (tt) (çäç) Tausug: buhuk Telugu: వెంట్రుకలు (te) (veṇṭrukalu), జుట్టు (te) (juṭṭu) Tetum: fuuk Thai: ผม (th) (pǒm) Northern Thai: ᨹᩫ᩠ᨾ Tibetan: སྐྲ (skra), དབུ་སྐྲ (dbu skra) (honorific) Tigrinya: ጸጉሪ (ṣäguri) Tocharian B: matsi Tok Pisin: gras bilong het Tongan: louʻulu Tsonga: misisi Turkish: saç (tr) Ottoman Turkish: صاچ (saç), گیسو (gîsû) Turkmen: saç Tuvan: дүк (dük) Udi: поп (pop) Ukrainian: (collective) воло́сся (uk) n (volóssja), (individual) во́лос (uk) m (vólos), во́лоси m pl (vólosy) Urdu: بال m (bāl), کیش m (keś) Uyghur: چاچ (ug) (chach) Uzbek: soch (uz) Venetan: cavel (vec) m Vietnamese: tóc (vi) Volapük: her (vo), (obsolete) hel Walloon: tchvea (wa) m Welsh: gwallt (cy) m, blew (cy) m pl Winnebago: nąąju Yakut: ас (as) Yámana: ušta Yiddish: האָר n (hor) Yoruba: irun Yup'ik: nuyaq Yurok: 'leptoyhl Zazaki: por (diq) n, gız n, sertu n Zealandic: aer n Zhuang: bwn'gyaeuj, byoem Zulu: unwele (zu) class 11/10

mass of such filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals

Afrikaans: haar (af) Ao: tezüng (Chungli) Armenian: մազեր (hy) (mazer) Assamese: নোম (nüm) Bambara: si Bashkir: йөн (yön) Basque: ile (eu) Bengali: পশম (bn) (pośom) Bulgarian: коса́ (bg) f (kosá) Burmese: အမွေး (my) (a.mwe:) Catalan: pèl (ca) m Chechen: чо (čo) Chinese: Mandarin: 頭髮 / 头发 (zh) (tóufa), 毛髮 / 毛发 (zh) (máofà) Coptic: ϥⲱⲓ (fōi) Czech: srst (cs) f, ochlupení n Dalmatian: capei m pl Danish: hår (da) n Dutch: haar (nl) n Esperanto: hararo (eo) Ewe: ɖa, (collection in humans), fũ (collection in animals) Faroese: hár (fo) n Finnish: karvoitus (fi), karva (fi), karvat (fi) pl French: cheveux (fr) m pl (collection in humans), poils (fr) m pl Frisian: West Frisian: hier (fy) n Friulian: cjavei m pl (plural), čhavêj m pl (plural), cjaveade f, pêi m pl Galician: pelo (gl) m, cabelo (gl) m, cabeleira f German: Haar (de) n Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 n (skuft) Greek: τρίχες (el) f pl (tríches) Ancient Greek: τρίχες f pl (tríkhes) Hawaiian: hulu, huluhulu Hebrew: שיער / שֵׂעָר (he) m (se'ár) Hindi: बाल (hi) m (bāl), लोम (hi) m (lom) Hungarian: szőr (hu) Icelandic: hár (is) n Ido: pilo (io) Indonesian: rambut (id), bulu (id) Ingush: чо (čo) Interlingua: pilo Italian: peli (it) m pl Japanese: 毛 (ja) (け, ke) Kabuverdianu: kabelu Khmer: រោម (km) (room) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تووک (tûk) Lao: ຂົນ (lo) (khon) Latin: capillus m, pilus Latvian: (of animals) spalva (lv) f, vilna (lv) f Lithuanian: plaukai pl, vilnos pl, gaurai pl, šeriai pl Low German: Hoor n Lü: ᦃᦳᧃ (ẋun) Luxembourgish: Hoer (lb) pl, Buuschten pl Macedonian: влакна n pl (vlakna) Malay: bulu (ms) Brunei Malay: bulu Maltese: suf Māori: makawe (mi) Marathi: केस m pl (kes) Mongolian: Cyrillic: үс (mn) (üs) Mongolian script: ᠦᠰᠦ (üsü) Nahuatl: tzontli (nah) Neapolitan: pelo m, pile Norman: g'veu m pl Norwegian: Bokmål: hår (no) n Nynorsk: hår n Odia: ଲୋମ (or) (loma) Okinawan: 毛 (きー, kī) Old English: hǣr n Old Tupi: aba Pitjantjatjara: uru Plautdietsch: Hoa f Polish: włosy (pl) m pl Portuguese: pelo (pt) m, cabelo (pt) m (collection in humans), cabeleira (pt) f (collection in humans) Romani: zar f Romanian: păr (ro) m (de pe corp), blană (ro) f (zool.) Romansh: chavels m pl Russian: во́лосы (ru) m pl (vólosy) Saek: ปุ๋น Scottish Gaelic: fionnadh m, gaoisid f, gaoisidean f pl Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: длака f (collection in animals), крзно m (collection in animals), длаке f pl (collection in humans) Latin: dlaka (sh) f (collection in animals), krzno (sh) m (collection in animals), dlake (sh) f pl (collection in humans) Shan: ၶူၼ် (shn) (khǔun) Shona: si Sicilian: pila (scn) m pl Slovak: srsť m Slovene: lasje m, dlaka (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: włose m pl, włosy f pl Sotho: moriri Spanish: pelo (es) m Swahili: nywele (sw) class 12 Swedish: hår (sv) n Tai Dam: ꪶꪄꪙ Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi) Telugu: రోమాలు (te) (rōmālu) Tetum: fulun Thai: ขน (th) (kǒn) Tibetan: སྤུ (spu) Tok Pisin: gras Turkish: kıl (tr), tüy (tr) Tuvan: дүк (dük) Ukrainian: (collective) воло́сся (uk) n (volóssja) Urdu: بال m (bāl) Vietnamese: lông (vi) Volapük: (collective) herem (vo) Zazaki: muw n Zealandic: 'aer n Zhuang: bwn Zulu: izinwele class 10, uboya class 14

zoology: slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of invertebrates

Finnish: karva (fi) Zazaki: tulık

botany: cellular outgrowth of the epidermis

Finnish: karva (fi) Spanish: milano (es) m (appendage of hairs on some fruits), vello (es) m Zazaki: muwi n

firearms: locking spring or other safety device haircloth — see haircloth very small distance, or degree — see also hairbreadth

Finnish: karvan verta Italian: pelo (it) m Sicilian: pilu (scn) m

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Albanian: (please verify) qime (sq) f, (please verify) flok (sq) m Breton: (please verify) blev (br) (collective) Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) tague Latin: (please verify) crinis Malagasy: (please verify) volo (mg) Māori: (please verify) huru Marathi: (please verify) केस m (kes) Pitjantjatjara: (please verify) uru Romanian: (please verify) păr (ro) m Sardinian: (please verify) pilu m Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) vlasi f pl Sindhi: (please verify) وارُ (sd) m (vāru) Swahili: (please verify) nywele (sw) Tagalog: (please verify) buhok (tl) Telugu: (please verify) వెంట్రుకలు (te) (veṇṭrukalu), (please verify) జుట్టు (te) (juṭṭu)

See also

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• depilate, depilation, depilator, depilatory
• epilate, epilation, epilator, epilatory

Verb

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hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)

1. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
   • 1808, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 90:Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.
   • 1825, American Mechanics' Magazine - Volume 2, page 71:By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.
   • 1971, Reuben King, Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood, The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, page 49:I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them
2. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
   • 1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312:He has haired up and healed over.
   • 1887, National Stockman and Farmer - Volume 11, page 7:It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.
   • 1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492:The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
3. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
   • 1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1:THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.
   • 2014, Lee Karr, Greg Nicotero, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead:So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.
   • 2017, Andy Adams, Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings:The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
4. To string the bow for a violin.
   • 1896, Henry Saint-George, The Bow, Its History, Manufacture & Use, page 96:The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.
   • 1969, John Alfred Bolander, Violin bow making, page 105:The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.
   • 2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108:To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.

Translations

[edit] to remove the hair from

Finnish: poistaa karva

to grow hair where there was a bald spot

Finnish: karvoittua

to cause to have hair; to provide with hair

Finnish: tehdä hiukset (to make hair, as for a doll); kasvattaa hiukset (to grow hair, as on someone's head); kasvattaa karva (to grow hair, as on someone's body or on an animal)

to string the bow for a violin

Finnish: jouhittaa (fi)

Anagrams

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• Riha, Ihar, Ahir, riah, Hira, Hari, HRIA

Irish

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /haɾʲ/

Verb

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hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Noun

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hair

1. h-prothesized form of air

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hair

1. alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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hair

1. alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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hair

1. alternative form of hor (“hoar”)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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hair

1. alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Old French

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Alternative forms

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• hadir, haḍir, haïr, air, haier, haire, hayer, hayr, heir, heyer, heer

Etymology

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From Frankish *hattjan.

Verb

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hair

1. to hate

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. First person singular present hez and present subjunctives are inherited from Frankish with regular sound changes of *-ttj- > -z/c-. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of hair (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

simple			compound
infinitive		hair			avoir haï
gerund		en haant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		haant
past participle		haï
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simpletenses	present	haz, hé	hez	het	haons	haez	héent
	imperfect	haoie, haeie	haoies, haeies	haoit, haeit	haïiens, haïens	haïiez, haïez	haoient, haeient
	preterite	haï	haïs	haï	haïmes	haïstes	haïrent
	future	harrai, harai	harras, haras	harra, hara	harrons, harons	harroiz, harreiz, harrez, haroiz, hareiz, harez	harront, haront
	conditional	harroie, harreie, haroie, hareie	harroies, harreies, haroies, hareies	harroit, harreit, haroit, hareit	harriiens, harriens, hariiens, hariens	harriiez, harriez, hariiez, hariez	harroient, harreient, haroient, hareient
compoundtenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simpletenses	present	hace, hée	haces, hées	hace, hée	haciens, haçons, haons	haciez, haez	hacent, héent
	imperfect	haïsse	haïsses	haïst	haïssons, haïssiens	haïssoiz, haïssez, haïssiez	haïssent
compoundtenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	hé	—	haons	haez	—

Derived terms

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• haenge

Related terms

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• haïne

Descendants

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• Middle French: haïr
  • French: haïr
• Norman: haï

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خیر (hayır), from Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr, “good, well, wellbeing”).

Noun

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hair n (plural hairuri)

1. share
2. luck

Declension

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singular		plural
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hair	hairul	hairuri	hairurile
genitive-dative	hair	hairului	hairuri	hairurilor
vocative	hairule		hairurilor