hora

Meaning

1. (feminine) hour (period of sixty minutes)
2. (feminine) time (point in time)

Hyphenated as

ho‧ra

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔ.ɾɐ/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).
Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan hora, Occitan and Italian ora, French heure and Romanian oară.

Sentences

Vem , já , já , para quê ? Era perto de uma hora da tarde .

Come, now, now, for what? It was close to one o'clock in the afternoon.

Precisamos esperar mais meia hora .

We need to wait another half hour.

Era a hora do dia em que toda a Espanha dormia durante o verão .

It was the time of day when all of Spain slept through the summer.

Um automóvel chegará no final do beco em meia hora , você deve entrar .

An automobile will arrive at the end of the alley in half an hour, you must enter.

Meia hora não haverá tempo para o pessoal assistido .

Half an hour there will be no time for assisted personnel.

Para o Candlestick, o dia avança uma hora inteira .

For Candlestick, the day moves forward a whole hour.

Era hora de tirar os desperdícios e alegrias da temporada anterior .

It was time to take away the waste and joys of the previous season.