"har" meaning in English

See har in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Audio: en-us-har.ogg
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|en}} Onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-interj}} har
  1. A sound of laughter, with a sarcastic connotation. Synonyms: hardy har har
    Sense id: en-har-en-intj-wOUURcUz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, English onomatopoeias Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 11 45 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 2 10 11 5 8 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 14 17 18 0 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Audio: en-us-har.ogg Forms: hars [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|harre}} Middle English harre, {{inh|en|ang|heorra||hinge; cardinal point}} Old English heorra (“hinge; cardinal point”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*herʀō}} Proto-West Germanic *herʀō, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*herzô||hinge}} Proto-Germanic *herzô (“hinge”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)kerd-||to move, sway, swing, jump}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”), {{cog|sco|herre}} Scots herre, {{cog|nl|harre}} Dutch harre, {{cog|is|hjarri||hinge}} Icelandic hjarri (“hinge”), {{cog|la|cardō||hinge}} Latin cardō (“hinge”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} har (plural hars)
  1. (dialectal) A hinge. Tags: dialectal Synonyms: harr, harre
    Sense id: en-har-en-noun-OGrA~UkF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 11 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Particle

Audio: en-us-har.ogg
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|nan-hbl|哈|tr=hâⁿ}} Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ) Head templates: {{head|en|particle|head=|sort=}} har, {{en-part}} har
  1. (Manglish, Singlish) Alternative form of ah (interrogative particle) Tags: Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ah (extra: interrogative particle) Related terms: har gow (english: etymologically unrelated)
    Sense id: en-har-en-particle-ow7Di2mS Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, Manglish, Singlish, English entries with incorrect language header, English particles, Singapore English Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 11 45 Disambiguation of English particles: 29 26 45 Disambiguation of Singapore English: 34 23 42
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.