haar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /hɑː(ɹ)/    美 /hɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland. Northern-England,Scotland,countable,especially,uncountable
    — 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. A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog. Scotland,countable,especially,uncountable
    — […] 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[…]

词形变化

haars plural harr alternative har alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
haary

词源

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”).
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