mohair

Earlier mocayre, from Middle French mocayart and Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, both from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”), past participle of خَيَّرَ (ḵayyara, “to choose”). Form influenced by hair through folk etymology. Doublet of moire; compare mockado.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊhɛɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊhɛə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

mohair (countable and uncountable, plural mohairs)

1. Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials.
2. The long, fine hair of the Angora goat.
3. An Angora goat.

   mohair goat, mohair kid

• →⇒ Cantonese: 馬海毛 / 马海毛 (maa⁵ hoi² mou⁴)
• → French: moire (semi-learned), → mohair
  • → Italian: amoerro, amoerre, moerro, muerre (semi-learned), → moire
• → German: Mohair
• → Italian: mohair
• → Japanese: モヘア (mohea)
• →⇒ Mandarin: 馬海毛 / 马海毛 (mǎhǎimáo)
• → Portuguese: mohair
• → Russian: мохе́р (moxér)
• → Spanish: mohair

• Mahori, Moriah, homrai

From English mohair. Doublet of moire.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

mohair m (plural mohairs)

1. mohair

• “mohair”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French mohair, itself a borrowing from English mohair, from Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”). Doublet of moire.

• IPA^(key): /moˈɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fiber)

• amoerro
• moire

• mohair in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Hyphenation: mo‧ha‧ir

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fine hair of the Angora goat)

• “mohair”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French mohair. Doublet of moar.

mohair n (plural mohairuri)

1. mohair

mohair m (plural mohaires)

1. mohair