# horde
## English
### Etymology

Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde", 'clan, troop'”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôd, IPA: /hɔːd/
* (General American) enPR: hôrd, IPA: /hɔɹd/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) enPR: hôd, IPA: /hoːd/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: hōrd, IPA: /ho(ː)ɹd/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /hoəd/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
* Homophones: hoard, whored

### Noun

horde (plural hordes)
* A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
* A large number of people or things.
    We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
** 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, Chapter IV:It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.

#### Derived terms

* Golden Horde
* hordelike
* horde mode
* hordesman
* primal horde
* yellow horde

#### Translations
### Verb

horde (third-person singular simple present hordes, present participle hording or hordeing, simple past and past participle horded)
* to travel en masse, to flock
** 1824, T. E., Oriental Wanderings, or the Fortunes of Felix. A romance, page 69:"What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?

### Usage notes

* Sometimes confused with hoard.

### Anagrams

* Herod, Rhode, Rohde

## Danish
### Etymology

From German Horde.

### Noun

horde c (singular definite horden, plural indefinite horder)
* horde

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦɔrdə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hor‧de
* Rhymes: -ɔrdə

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Horde; attested from the early 17th century.

#### Noun

horde f (plural horden or hordes, diminutive hordetje n)
* a horde
* a troop of boy scouts, comprising no more than 24 cubs

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch horde, hurde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi, from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz; cognate with German Hürde, and closely related to English hurdle (which is a diminutive of the same root). The sense "hurdle" is a semantic loan from English hurdle.

#### Noun

horde f (plural horden, diminutive hordetje n)
* (sports) hurdle (obstacle used in races)
* a gross sieve
* any movable wattle screen or braided wooden lattice used for various purposes (as a wall, hurdle, shield, sieve or even raft)

##### Alternative forms

* horre

##### Derived terms

* dijkhorde
* hor
* hordeloop
* hordepaal
* horren
* kettinghor

### References

* M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔʁd/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

horde f (plural hordes)
* a horde

### Further reading

* “horde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Fula
### Alternative forms

* (Maasina) hoorde

### Noun

horde nde
* (Pulaar) calabash

### References

* M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

horde
* Alternative form of hord

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

horde
* Alternative form of horden

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From German Horde.

### Noun

horde m (definite singular horden, indefinite plural horder, definite plural hordene)
* a horde

### References

* “horde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxor.de/, [ˈhorˠ.de]

### Noun

horde
* dative singular of hord

## Upper Sorbian
### Adjective

horde
* inflection of hordy:
** neuter nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural