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haar

UK/hɑː(ɹ)//hɑɹ/

haar noun: thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.

Noun

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, especially) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
    • The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN
  2. (Scotland, especially) A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
    • […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]1873, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), May. [A Novel.], page 73
    • [An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]2024 February 29, Samantha SoRelle, The Gentleman's Gentleman, Balcarres Books LLC, →ISBN, page 168

Proper noun capitalized: Haar

Haar

  1. A municipality near Munich, Germany.

haar meaning in Urdu and Punjabi

haar in Urdu

haar, the third month of the Punjabi calendar
ہاڑ hāṛ

haar in Punjabi

haar, the third month of the Punjabi calendar
ہاڑھ hāṛh

Forms of haar

pluralhaars
alternative formharr
alternative formhar

Origin of haar

Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”). Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”). Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).

Words formed from haar

Phrases with haar

Words that rhyme with haar

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Questions about haar

What does haar mean?
Haar means thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
What is haar in Urdu?
Haar in Urdu is ہاڑ (hāṛ). See Haar meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is haar?
Haar can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce haar?
Haar is pronounced /hɑː(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of haar?
The plural of haar is haars.

Words near haar in the dictionary

  1. Haapala
  2. haapalaite
  3. Haapalas
  4. Haapamäki
  5. Haapsalu
  6. haar
  7. Haar space
  8. Haar spaces
  9. Haar wavelet
  10. Haar wavelets
  11. haarder

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: haar (page history and authors); Haar (page history and authors); ہاڑ (Urdu) (page history and authors); ہاڑھ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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