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Hors

Hors

See also: hors and hörs

English

Proper noun

Hors

  1. A male given name

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Hors m

  1. A male given name

hors

hors

See also: Hors and hörs

French

Etymology

From Middle French fors, from Old French fors, Latin forīs, or from dehors.

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔʁ/

Adverb

hors

  1. outside
    hors la ville
    outside the city
  2. (followed by de) out (of), beyond

Derived terms

Related terms


Gothic

Romanization

hōrs

  1. Romanization of 𐌷𐍉𐍂𐍃

Middle English

Noun

hors (plural hors or horses)

  1. a horse

Norman

Adverb

hors

  1. (Guernsey, Jersey) out

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hrussą (horse), from Proto-Indo-European *kers- (run). Cognate with Old Frisian hors, Old Saxon hros, Dutch ros, Old High German hros, ros (German Ross), Old Norse hross (whence the Old Swedish hors and Icelandic hross); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin currō (run, race).

Noun

hors n (nominative plural hors)

  1. horse

Declension

Descendants


Old French

Adverb

hors

  1. (rare or Late Old French) from; out (of)

Synonyms


Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hursą, *hrussą.

Noun

hors n

  1. horse

Declension

Descendants


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from English horse.

Noun

hors m (Cyrillic spelling хорс)

  1. (slang) heroin

Declension


Swedish

Noun

hors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of hor