hoarse

English

Etymology

From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).

Pronunciation

(General American) enPR: hōrs, IPA^(key): /hɔɹs/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɔːs/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹs/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəs/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: horse (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

Adjective

hoarse (comparative hoarser, superlative hoarsest)

Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  I am old and my voice is hoarse […]

Derived terms

Translations

afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice

Arabic: مَبْحُوح‎ (mabḥūḥ)
Bulgarian: дрезгав (bg) (drezgav), пресипнал (bg) (presipnal), прегракнал (bg) (pregraknal)
Catalan: ronc (ca), rogallós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 粗啞 (zh), 粗哑 (zh) (cūyǎ), 沙啞 (zh), 沙哑 (zh) (shāyǎ), 嘶啞 (zh), 嘶哑 (zh) (sīyǎ)
Czech: chraptivý m
Dutch: schor (nl)
Esperanto: raŭka
Estonian: kähe
Finnish: käheä (1)
French: enroué (fr)
German: heiser (de)
Greek: βραχνός (el) (vrachnós)
Hungarian: rekedt (hu)
Icelandic: hás (is); rámur

Italian: rauco (it), atono (it)
Latin: raucus
Luxembourgish: hees
Maori: whango
Middle English: hos
Navajo: bizhítsoh
Norman: râpeux
Norwegian: hes (no)
Polish: ochrypły (pl) m
Portuguese: rouco (pt) m, rouca (pt) f
Romanian: răgușit (ro) m or n
Russian: хри́плый (ru) (xríplyj), охри́пший (ru) (oxrípšij)
Slovene: hripav (sl)
Spanish: ronco (es), afónico (es)
Vietnamese: khàn (vi)
Yiddish: הייזעריק‎ (heyzerik)

Anagrams

ahorse, ashore, hearos, shoare

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