horo

Borrowed from Japanese 母衣(ほろ) (horo, “cloak”).

horo (plural horos)

1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦoro]

horo f

1. vocative singular of hora

Borrowed from English hour, French heure, and Italian ora. Learned borrowing from Latin hōra.^[1][2] Compare Spanish hora, Romanian oară, German Uhr, Dutch uur, Welsh awr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoro/

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• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: ho‧ro

horo (accusative singular horon, plural horoj, accusative plural horojn)

1. hour (period of 60 minutes)

   Estas dudek kvar horoj tage. ― There are twenty-four hours in a day.

   Estas la oka horo. ― It's eight o'clock. (literally, “It is the eighth hour.”)

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Ĉiu tago daŭras dudek kvar horojn.

     Each day lasts twenty four hours.

2. time (of day)

   Kioma horo estas? ― What time is it? (literally, “Which hour is it?”)

• tempo (“time”)

• horloĝo

• “horo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “horo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
• Wells, John C. (1992), “hor/o, hour”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, pages 87, 395
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “hour, time”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[4], →ISBN, pages 259-260, 537
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “hor-o”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[5], →OL, page 169
• Motteau, Achille (1907), “hor-o”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[6], →OCLC, page 51

Probably an alteration of huora (or earlier hoora), possibly by association with an earlier dialectal horo (“crack, hole”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoro/, [ˈho̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification^(key): ho‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): ho‧ro

horo (colloquial, derogatory)

1. ho, slut, whore

• “horo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[7] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 5 April 2024

• orho, rhoo

horo (plural hori)

1. hour

horo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほろ

From Proto-Polynesian *solo₃ (compare with Hawaiian holo, Tahitian horo, Samoan solo)^[1][2] from Proto-Polynesian *ŋaasolo (“to move swiftly forward”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoro/ [ˈhɔɾɔ]

horo

1. to run
2. to flee, to escape

horo

1. fast, quick, swift

horo

1. speed

• hohoro
• horohoro

• “horo” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.

horo n

1. mud

• Middle Dutch: hōre
  • Dutch: hore

• “horo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *hurhwą.

horo n (genitive horowes)

1. swampy soil

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense, the root may be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɣó (“small”), which may link this word as a Doublet of owó (money)

• wóró

• IPA^(key): /hó.ɾó/

hóró

1. (of a small round object) being in small quantity

hóró

1. seed, tablet

   Synonym: irúgbìn

2. (by extension, biology, cytology) cell

• hóró kòkó (“cocoa bean”)
• hóró-hóró

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

• IPA^(key): /hō.ɾō/

horo

1. of a roundish confined space

horo

1. a confined, narrow alley

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

• IPA^(key): /hò.ɾò/

hòrò

1. deep pit or hole

   Synonyms: ọ̀gbun, kòtò

• hòrò imú (“nostril”)

• ihò (“hole”)

• IPA^(key): /hō.ɾó/

horó

1. table

   Synonyms: ọpọ́n, tábìlì