Definitions
Etymologies
- From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra) and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Modern Greek χορό (khoro), accusative of χορός (khoros, "dance"). (Wiktionary)
- Modern Hebrew hōrâ, from Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, perhaps from Modern Greek khoro, accusative of khoros, round dance, from Greek; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Consequently, Varro means by "qui Calendarum hora sexta natus est," a person born in the sixth hour of the day of the Calends; the sixth hour being that which immediately succeeded noon -- the _media hora_ of Ovid.”
“(For those of you not in the know, kain-a-hora is Yiddish for way-to-go ... more or less.”
Heidi Pickman: FL: Lieberman Stirs Up Bipartisan Interest In McCain
“A lot of places here do seem to be programmed to the Latin hora de comida and therefore are not open in the evening.”
“Of that day and hour;" the word hora is not here to be taken strictly for the measure of time, commonly called a hour; this were to make our”
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
“In the "Antiphonary of Bangor", an Irish document of the sixth century, Vespers are called hora duodecima, which corresponds to six o'clock in the evening, or hora incensi, or again ad cereum benedicendum.”
“Aug. 27th, Margarite Dee baptized hora 4½ a meridie.”
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts
“Torah, our Sages have taught us, is from the Hebrew word hora'ah, lesson.”
“Bílá hora, which is a tram terminus and so quite easy to get to.”
“I don't think chanting "The Bruce is loose" while doing the "hora" is ever socially acceptable.”
The Huffington Post: Joel Dovev: To The Unhappy Couple: A Toast
“[B-Real:] (grrrrrah!) [B-Real and Sen Dog:] (mexican yells) [B-Real:] 'hora' hora ... quien está? ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hora’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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Ecce Romani
When in Rome...
salve, ecce, omnis, puella, puer, cannis, equis, domus, quae, postquam, vestemque, suam and 106 more...
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MUSIC - dance styles
A list generated by Phrontistery
http://phrontistery.info/dance.html
which I wanted to have along with my own lists on Wordnikallemande, beguine, bergamask, bolero, bossa-nova, boston, bourrée, bransle, buck-and-wing, cabriole, cakewalk, canary and 93 more...
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habile, habiliment, hackle, hackney, hadal, hame, hank, hansom, hapax, hark, harl and 568 more...
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Klezmer
"Klezmer (Yiddish כליזמר or קלעזמער (klezmer), pl כליזמרים (klezmorim), כליזמרfrom Hebrew כלי זמר — instruments of music) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by ...
klezmer, Klezmer, klezmorim, freylekh, Bulgar, sher, doina, hora, Yiddish theatre, Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Sholom Secunda, Donna, Donna and 29 more...
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circle
ensō, ring, ngoeloe, ponilti, pongokpu, whirl, coil, band, halo, almucantar, cromlech, gyre and 52 more...
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Dance Magic Dance
Styles of dance
ballet, tango, waltz, salsa, polka, swing, charleston, foxtrot, jitterbug, tap, quickstep, mambo and 101 more...
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dance dance revolution
interesting dances
maxixe, lambada, rhumba, samba, tango, cha cha cha, square, lundu, mambo, polka, hora, waltz and 59 more...
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