har
UK/hɑː//hɑɹ/
har noun: a hinge. Also the alternative form of hah.
Noun (1)
har (plural hars)
- A hinge.
Interjection
- 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!1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic
- Armorer: 'THIS BE THE AERIAL ANVIL! NEED AN ARMOR UPGRADE? IF YOU NEED SOMETHING FORGED, I'M YOUR FELLA! HAR HAR!'2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Armor Outpost
Noun (2) capitalized: HAR
HAR (plural HARs)
- Acronym of human accelerated region.
Proper noun capitalized: Har
Har
- Alternative form of Hari.
Also used as
har is also the alternative form of hah.
har meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
har in Tamil
- ஹர், ஹார்
har in Telugu
- హర్, హార్
har in Malayalam
- ഹാർ, ഹർ
More languagesFewer languages
- har in Kannada
- ಹರ್, ಹಾರ್
- har in Gujarati
- હર
- har in Odia
- ହାର୍, ହର୍
Forms of har
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hars |
| alternative form | harr |
| alternative form | harre |
| plural | HARs |
| Interjection | |
| alternative form | hardy har har |
Origin of har
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”).
Onomatopoeic.
Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).
Phrases with har
Words that rhyme with har
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- water bar
- char
- tar
- var
- AAR
- bazaar
- caviar
- lodestar
- Mullingar
- Myanmar
- scar
- ajar
- arr
- barre
- boudoir
- cigar
- cymar
- czar
- disbar
- gar
- guitar
- haar
- instar
- lar
- Loire
- noir
- NPR
- omar
- schwar
- their
- tl;dr
- tsar
- TTR
- upbar
- USSR
- yar
- -dar
- AGR
- alcazar
- armoire
- au revoir
- bahar
- baignoire
- Bashar
- beaux-arts
- beer bar
- Berger Picard
- Bihar
Questions about har
- What does har mean?
- Har means a hinge.
- What is har in Tamil?
- Har in Tamil is ஹர், ஹார். See Har meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is har?
- Har can be a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce har?
- Har is pronounced /hɑː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of har?
- The plural of har is hars.
Words near har in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: har (page history and authors); HAR (page history and authors); Har (page history and authors); har (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); har (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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