hair

(Engels)

Noun

1. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
2. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
3. (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.
4. (countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
5. (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
6. (countable) 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.
7. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
8. (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.

Verb

1. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
2. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
3. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
4. To string the bow for a violin.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hɛə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: her

Geërf van Old English: hǣr

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Hier

Verwante met Fries: hier

Verwante met Nederlands: haar

Verwante met Duits: Haar

Verwante met Sweeds: -

Verwante met Deens: -

Verwante met Noors: hår

Verwante met Yslands: hár

Geërf van Middle English: here

In summary

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.

Sinonieme

fur

feather

🪶

feathers

wool

head

awn

body hair

down

whiskers

fuzz

mane

pilus

coat

🧥

hairsbreadth

whisker

hair’s-breadth

head hair

pile

haircloth

hairs

head of hair

pelt

mane hair

bristle

hair of the head

long

fluff

forehead

hemp cut

silk

chest hair

nap

eyebrow hair

tomentum

down feather

hair’s breadth

wavy hair

nostril hairs

soft hair

lanugo

curl lock of hair

animal fiber

hemp fiber

untarred jute spun yarn

hemp thread

hemo thread

flax silk

long straight

scalp hair

yure

Vertalings

Haar

pelo

cheveu

haar

cheveux

poil

cabello

cabelo

chevelure

capello

capelli

pelo

μαλλιά

włos

cabell

Sinne

He washed the detritus from his hair .

Occasionally , swimmers wear custom-made swimming caps in place of their hair in buns .