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語源

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”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɑː(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /hɑɹ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)

名詞

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

1. (especially Northern England, Scotland) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (especially Scotland) A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
   • 1873, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), May. [A Novel.], page 73:

     […] 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 […]

   • 2024 February 29, Samantha SoRelle, The Gentleman's Gentleman, Balcarres Books LLC, →ISBN, page 168:

     [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 […]

別の表記

• harr, har

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• Hara