hori

Borrowed from Māori Hōri (“George”), itself from English George.

hori (plural horis)

1. (New Zealand, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Māori.
   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 230:

     “I'm a typical hori after all, made to work on the chain, or be a factory hand, not try for high places.”

May be pejorative when used by non-Māori.

• hori-hori (etymologically unrelated)
• Pakeha

• Ihor

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hoɾi/ [ho.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /oɾi/ [o.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -oɾi, -i
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri

Unclear, from Proto-Basque *(h)ori. Possibly contains the adjectival suffix -i, while the first element has been interpreted as (h)or (“dog”), thus literally meaning “the color of dogs” or “tawny”.^[1][2][3][4]

hori (comparative horiago, superlative horien, excessive horiegi)

1. yellow
2. (journalism) yellow, sensationalist

hori inan

1. yellow

From Proto-Basque *(h)ori. The stem of the inflected forms is *(h)oR-, with a trill.

hori (postposed, demonstrative)

1. that

hori (demonstrative)

1. that one

• “hori”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “hori”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
• Mitxelena, Koldo L. (1961), Fonética histórica vasca [Basque Historical Phonetics] (Obras completas de Luis Michelena; 1) (in Spanish), Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, published 1990, →ISBN, page 182

hori

1. plural of horo

hori

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほり

horī

1. present active infinitive of horior

• “hori”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhorʲi/
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri
• Rhymes: -orʲi

hori

1. clothes moth

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 61

hori

1. alternative form of hory

From horă.

a hori (third-person singular present horește, past participle horit) 4th conjugation

1. to dance

From English hold.

hori

1. to hold
   • 1960, Corly Verlooghen, “Atansofoto [So-be-it City]”, in Kans op onweer [Chance of thunderstorms]‎^[3], Paramaribo: Drukkerij Srenang, page 40:

     Oor joe srefie stefie / a tap na brotjie / abra memreliba / awas degedege / foe tra sei / e koor joe atie

     [Ori yusrefi steifi / a tapu na broki / abra memreliba / awansi degedege / fu tra sei / e kori yu ati]

     Hold yourself steady / on the bridge / across the river of remembrance / even if it's rickety / from the other side / it's deceiving your heart

2. to hold onto, to retain, to catch

   Hori a f’furuman! ― Hold the thief!

3. (ambitransitive) to keep (in a particular state)

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Borrowed from Omani Arabic هوري (hōrī), from an Indian source, likely Hindi होड़ी (hoṛī) or Gujarati હોડી (hoḍī).^[1]

hori class V (plural mahori class VI)

1. a kind of canoe

Borrowed from Arabic خَوْر (ḵawr).

hori class IX (plural hori class X)

1. creek, inlet