# hair
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hâr, IPA: /hɛə/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
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* (US, Canada, Ireland) IPA: /hɛ(ə)ɹ/, [hɛɚ]
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /heː/
** (Victoria) IPA: /hɛːə/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /heə/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /hiə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /heɹ/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /hɜː(ɹ)/
* Homophones: hare; air, heir (h-dropping); here (cheer–chair merger); her (fair–fur merger)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

### Noun

hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)
* (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 135:Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
* (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
    In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.
** 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
* (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
* (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
    Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
* (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
    (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
* (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
* (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
    Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.
* (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
** January 2014, Barack Obama, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
    Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.

#### Usage notes

* The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb.
    George has (-) brown hair, but I found a hair on the sofa and suspect he's getting some gray hairs.
    George's hair is brown, but one hair I found was grey, so I think there are probably more grey hairs on his head as well.

#### Derived terms

* angel's hair
* beard hair
* blue hair
* dehair, dehairer
* hair bobble
* hair-bowed
* hair bun
* hair-dresser
* hair dresser
* haired, hairedness
* hairen
* hairful
* hair ice
* hairing
* hairist
* hairless, hairlessly
* hairlet
* hairlike
* hair-like
* hair net
* hairy, Old Hairy
* hang by a hair
* harm a hair on someone's head
* hockey hair
* love-hair
* macrohair
* mermaid's hair
* microhair
* nanohair
* netherhair, nether hair
* nonhair
* overhair
* rehair
* underhair, underhaired
* unhair
* witch's hair
* black-haired
* brown-haired
* curlyhaired
* dark-haired
* fair-haired
* ginger-haired
* grey-haired
* hair-brown
* hair-on-fire
* hair-raising, hairraising
* long-haired
* silver-haired, silvery-haired
* tow-haired
* white-haired, whitehaired
* wirehaired
* yellow-haired
* a hair past a freckle
* androgenic hair
* angel hair
* asshair
* axillary hair
* baby hair
* bad hair day
* ballhair
* bamboo hair
* bed hair
* Berenice's Hair
* big hair
* bluehair
* body hair
* brittle hair syndrome
* camelhair, camelshair
* cartilage-hair hypoplasia
* cathair
* chest hair
* club hair
* crosshair
* cunt hair
* curled hair
* deer-hair, deer's hair
* doghair
* ear hair
* facial hair
* frog hair
* goathair, goatshair
* guard hair
* gustatory hair
* hairball
* hairband, hair band
* hairbird
* hairbow
* hair bracket
* hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hair's breadth
* hair brush, hairbrush, hair brushing
* hair bulb
* hair bundle
* haircalf
* haircap
* haircare, hair care
* hair cell
* hair chalk
* hair clip, hairclip
* haircloth
* haircoat
* haircolor
* hair conditioner
* hair curler, hair-curling, haircurling
* haircut, haircutter, haircutting
* hair divider
* hairdo
* hairdress, hairdresser, hairdressing, hairdressing salon
* hair drop
* hairdryer, hair dryer
* hair dye
* hair elastic
* hair extension
* hair fairy
* hairfall
* hair follicle
* hair fork
* Hairgate
* hair gel
* hair glove
* hairgrass, hair grass
* hairgrip, hair grip
* hair in the gate
* hair iron
* hair jelly
* hair lace
* hairlift
* hair line, hairline
* hairlock
* hairlore
* hair loss
* hairmageddon
* hair mask
* hair match
* hair metal
* hairmonger
* hair moss
* hair moth
* hairnet
* hair of the dog (that bit one)
* hair oil
* hair pencil
* hair pie
* hairpiece
* hairpin, hair pin
* hair pipe
* hair plate
* hairplay
* hairpluck
* hair plug
* hair powder
* hairpuller, hairpulling
* hair-raiser
* hair remover
* hair restorer
* hair rig
* hair roller
* hair salon
* hair-salt, hair salt
* hair seal
* hair seating
* hairshaft
* hair shirt, hairshirt
* hair sieve
* hairslide
* hair snake
* hair space
* hairsplit, hairsplitter, hair-splitter, hair-splittery, hairsplitting, hair-splitting
* hairspray, hair spray
* hairspring
* hair stick
* hair stone
* hairstreak
* hairstring
* hair stroke
* hairstyle, hairstyler, hairstyling, hair styling, hairstylist, hair stylist
* hairswidth
* hairtail
* hair-tidy
* hair tie
* hair tonic
* hair trigger, hair-trigger
* hair twist
* hairwash, hairwashing
* hair wax
* hairwear
* hairweaving
* hairwork
* hairworm
* hat hair
* headhair, head of hair
* helmet hair
* horsehair
* kinky hair disease
* lady's hair
* longhair, long hair
* long hair sedge
* maidenhair, maid's hair
* manhair
* Menkes kinky hair syndrome
* moosehair
* no-hair theorem
* nose hair
* nostril hair
* Pele's hair
* pubic hair
* red hair
* red pussy hair, red cunt hair
* root hair
* sex hair
* shorthair, short hairs
* stadia hair
* steely hair disease
* swimmer's hair
* terminal hair
* uncombable hair syndrome
* vellus hair
* Venus hair fern
* Venus's hair stone
* wild hair
* wirehair, wirehaired
* comb one's hair
* comb someone's hair the wrong way
* curl someone's hair, make someone's hair curl
* get grey hair from
* get in someone's hair
* get out of someone's hair
* give someone grey hair, give grey hair to
* have a wild hair to
* keep one's hair on
* let one's hair down
* long hair don't care
* make someone's hair stand on end
* not turn a hair
* not worth a hair
* one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
* part one's hair
* pull one's hair out
* put hair on someone's chest, put hair on one's chest
* set one's hair on fire, light one's hair on fire, run around with one's hair on fire
* split hairs
* tear one's hair, tear one's hair out
* turn a hair
* against the hair
* by a hair's breadth
* fine as frog('s) hair, finer than frog hair
* hair out of place
* (neither) hide nor hair
* to (the turn of) a hair
* a hair past a freckle
* androgenic hair
* angel hair
* Antarctic hair grass
* axillary hair
* baby hair
* bamboo hair
* big hair
* body hair
* brittle hair syndrome
* camel-hair brush
* cartilage-hair hypoplasia
* chest hair
* club hair
* comb one's hair
* comb someone's hair the wrong way
* cunt hair
* curled hair
* deer-hair
* deer's hair
* fine as frog hair
* fine as frog's hair
* finer than frog hair
* frog hair
* get gray hair from
* get grey hair from
* get in someone's hair
* get out of someone's hair
* give gray hair to
* give grey hair to
* give someone gray hair
* give someone grey hair
* guard hair
* gustatory hair
* hair band
* hair-brown
* hair-brush
* hair brushing
* hair bulb
* hair bundle
* hair cell
* hair chalk
* hair clip
* hair-clip
* hair conditioner
* hair curling
* hair cut
* hair divider
* hair-dryer
* hair elastic
* hair extension
* hair fairy
* hair fork
* hair grass
* hair grip
* hair-grip
* hair in the gate
* hair iron
* hair jelly
* hair loss
* hair mask
* hair match
* hair metal
* hair of the dog that bit one
* hair oil
* hair out of place
* hair pie
* hair pin
* hair pipe
* hair plug
* hair-raiser
* hair raiser
* hair raising
* hair-raisingly
* hair remover
* hair restorer
* hair rig
* hair salon
* hair-salt
* hair salt
* hair-shirt
* hair-shirted
* hair-splitter
* hair-splittery
* hair-splitting
* hair-splittingly
* hair stick
* hair stone
* hair styling
* hair stylist
* hair-tidy
* hair tonic
* hair trigger
* hair twist
* hair wax
* keep one's hair on
* kinky hair disease
* lady's hair
* light one's hair on fire
* long hair
* long hair don't care
* long hair sedge
* maiden-hair
* maid's hair
* make someone's hair curl
* make someone's hair stand on end
* Menkes kinky hair syndrome
* nether hair
* nether-hair
* one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
* Pele's hair
* pull one's hair out
* put hair on one's chest
* put hair on someone's chest
* red cunt hair
* red hair
* red pussy hair
* re-hair
* root hair
* run around with one's hair on fire
* sex hair
* stadia hair
* steely hair disease
* swimmer's hair
* tear one's hair
* terminal hair
* to the turn of a hair
* turn a hair
* uncombable hair syndrome
* vellus hair
* Venus hair fern
* Venus's hair stone

#### Collocations

* Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

#### Translations

Abkhaz: ахәы (axʷə)
Acehnese: o', ôk
Adyghe: шъхьэц (ŝḥɛc)
Afar: xagor
Afrikaans: haar (af)
Ahom: 𑜇𑜤𑜪 (phuṃ)
Ainu: ヌマ (numa)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akkadian: 𒋠 (šārtu)
Aklanon: buhok
Albanian: qime (sq)
Amharic: ፀጉር (ṣ́ägur)
Arabic: شَعْر (ar) (šaʕr), شَعْرَة f (šaʕra)
Egyptian Arabic: شعر m (šaʕr) (collective), شعرة f (šaʕra) (singulative)
Gulf Arabic: شعر m (šaʕar) (collective), شعرة f (šaʕra) (singulative)
Archi: чӏааӏри (čʼaạri)
Armenian: մազեր (hy) (mazer)
Aromanian: per m
Assamese: চুলি (suli)
Asturian: pelu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: saç (az)
Bambara: kunsi
Bashkir: сәс (səs)
Basque: ile (eu)
Bats: ბეჯ (beǯ)
Belarusian: (head of~) валасы́ m pl (valasý), (individual) во́лас m (vólas)
Bengali: চুল (bn) (cul)
Bhojpuri: 𑂍𑂵𑂬 (keś), 𑂕𑂷𑂀𑂗 (jhõṭ), केस (kēs)
Bikol Central: buhok (bcl)
Borôro: ao
Breton: blev (br)
Brunei Malay: rambut
Budukh: чӏер (čʼer)
Bulgarian: коса́ (bg) m (kosá)
Burmese: ဆံပင် (my) (hcampang)
Catalan: cabell (ca) m, pèl (ca) m
Cebuano: buhok
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵣⴰⵔ (azzar)
Central Sierra Miwok: juše-
Chamicuro: shenu
Chamorro: pulu
Chechen: месаш pl (mesaš)
Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏘᎬᎢ (ustigvi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 頭髮 / 头发 (yue) (tau$^4$ faat$^3$)
Dungan: туфа (tufa)
Eastern Min: 頭髮 / 头发 (tàu-huók)
Gan: 頭髮 / 头发 (teu$^2$ fat)
Hakka: 頭髮 / 头发 (thèu-fat)
Hokkien: 頭毛 / 头毛 (zh-min-nan) (thâu-mn̂g, thâu-mô͘, thâu-mo͘), 頭鬃 / 头鬃 (zh-min-nan) (thâu-chang)
Jin: 頭髮 / 头发 (tou$^1$ fah$^4$)
Mandarin: 頭髮 / 头发 (zh) (tóufa)
Wu: 頭髮 / 头发
Xiang: 頭髮 / 头发 (tou$^2$ fa$^6$)
Chuvash: ҫӳҫ (śüś)
Coptic: ϥⲱⲓ m (fōi), ⲧⲣⲓⲭⲟⲥ m (trikhos)
Cornish: blew, gols (collective)
Czech: vlasy (cs) m pl, (individual) vlas (cs) m
Danish: hår (da) n
Dolgan: ас
Dutch: haar (nl) n
Eastern Arrernte: alte
Egyptian: (šnj m)
Enga: iti
Erzya: черь (čeŕ)
Esperanto: haro (eo) (individual), hararo (eo) (collection)
Estonian: juuksed (et) pl
Ewe: ɖa
Faroese: hár (fo) n
Finnish: hiukset (fi) pl, tukka (fi)
French: cheveu (fr) m (individual), cheveux (fr) m (usually plural), chevelure (fr) f (collection)
Old French: cheveu m
Friulian: cjaveli m (individual), čhavêl m (individual)
Galician: cabelo (gl) m, pelo (gl) m
Georgian: თმა (ka) (tma)
German: Haar (de) n (individual), Haare (de) n (usually plural)
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 n (skuft)
Greek: μαλλί (el) n (mallí), μαλλιά (el) n (malliá)
Ancient: κόμη f (kómē), τρίχες f pl (tríkhes)
Greenlandic: nujaq
Guaraní: akãrangue
Gujarati: વાળ (gu) m (vāḷ), કેશ m (keś)
Haitian Creole: cheve
Hawaiian: lauoho
Hebrew: שיער / שֵׂעָר (he) m (se'ár)
Higaonon: buhuk
Hindi: बाल (hi) m (bāl), केश (hi) m (keś), जटा (hi) f (jaṭā), वाल (hi) m (vāl), केस (hi) m (kes), चूल (hi) m (cūl)
Hungarian: haj (hu)
Icelandic: hár (is) n
Ido: haro (io) (individual), hararo (io) (collection)
Ilocano: buok
Indonesian: rambut (id)
Ingrian: hiukset, tukka
Ingush: мосаш (mosaš)
Interlingua: capillo
Inuktitut: ᓄᔭᑦ (noyat)
Irish: gruaig (ga) f, folt m
Old Irish: folt m
Istro-Romanian: per
Italian: capello (it) m (individual), capelli (it) m pl (usually plural)
Japanese: 髪の毛 (ja) (かみのけ, kami no ke), 髪 (ja) (かみ, kami), 頭髪 (ja) (とうはつ, tōhatsu) (formally)
Javanese: rambut (jv), réma (krama inggil)
Jeju: 머리꺼럭 (meorikkeoreok), 머리털 (meoriteol), 머리터럭 (meoriteoreok), 머리까락 (meorikkarak) (Bongseong, Joseong, Nohyeong), 머리껄 (meorikkeol)
Kabardian: щхьэц (kbd) (śḥɛc)
Kabuverdianu: kabelu
Kamba: nzue
Kannada: ಕೇಶ (kn) (kēśa), ಕೂದಲು (kn) (kūdalu)
Kapampangan: buak
Karakhanid: سَجْ (sač)
Kashubian: włos m
Kazakh: шаш (kk) (şaş)
Khmer: សក់ (km) (sɑk)
Kikuyu: jwere
Klamath-Modoc: laq
Korean: 머리칼 (ko) (meorikal), 머리카락 (ko) (meorikarak), 머리 (ko) (meori), 머리털 (ko) (meoriteol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قژ (ckb) (qij)
Northern Kurdish: pirç (ku), por (ku)
Kyrgyz: чач (ky) (cac)
Lao: ຜົມ (phom)
Latgalian: mots
Latin: coma f, crīnis m or f
Latvian: mats (lv) m, mati (lv) pl
Laz: თომა (toma)
Lezgi: чӏар (č̣ar)
Lingala: nsúki
Lithuanian: plaukai, (single piece) plaukas m
Low German: Hoor n
Lü: ᦕᦳᧄ (ṗhum)
Luhya: lichune
Luo: yie wich
Luxembourgish: Hoer (lb) n, Hoer (lb) pl
Macedonian: коса (mk) f (kosa) (collective), прамен m (pramen) (strand of hair), влакно (mk) n (vlakno) (single piece of hair)
Magahi: 𑂒𑂳𑂪 (cul), 𑂍𑂵𑂬 (kes), 𑂕𑂷𑂀𑂗 (jhõṭ)
Maguindanao: buk
Malagasy: volo (mg)
Malay: rambut (ms)
Maltese: xagħar m
Manchu: ᡶᡠᠨᡳᠶᡝᡥᡝ (funiyehe)
Manipuri: ꯁꯝ (mni) (sam)
Manx: gruag f, folt m
Maori: uru, weu, makawe (mi)
Maranao: bok
Marathi: केस n (kes)
Mingrelian: თომა (toma)
Mizo: sam
Mòcheno: hor n
Moksha: шяярь (šäjäŕ)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үс (mn) (üs)
Mongolian: ᠦᠰᠦ (üsü)
Muong: thắc
Nahuatl: tzontli (nah)
Nama: ǀûn
Navajo: atsiighaʼ
Neapolitan: capello m
Nepali: कपाल (ne) (kapāl)
Nga La: sam
Norman: g'veu m (individual), g'veux m (plural)
Northern Thai: ᨹᩫ᩠ᨾ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hår (no) n
Nynorsk: hår n
Nuer: nhim
Occitan: cabel (oc) m, pel (oc) m
Odia: କେଶ (or) (keśa)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: власъ m (vlasŭ)
Glagolitic: ⰲⰾⰰⱄⱏ m (vlasŭ)
Old East Slavic: волосъ m (volosŭ)
Old English: feax n, hǣr n, wiffeax n (of a woman)
Old Tupi: 'aba
Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰲 (s¹č /⁠sač⁠/)
Oromo: rifeensa
Ossetian: сӕрыхъуын (særyqwyn)
Ottoman Turkish: صاچ (saç), گیسو (gîsû)
Pangasinan: buek
Pannonian Rusyn: власи m pl (vlasi)
Papiamentu: kabei
Pashto: ویښتان (waṣ̌tan), وېښته (ps) m (wex̌tǝ)
Pela: tsʰɛ̃⁵⁵
Pennsylvania German: Haar n
Persian:
Dari: مو (fa) (mō), مُو (mū), گیس (fa) (gēs)
Iranian Persian: مو (fa) (mu), گیس (fa) (gis)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Pitjantjatjara: mangka
Plautdietsch: Hoa f
Polish: włosy (pl) m pl, (individual) włos (pl) m
Portuguese: cabelo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਵਾਲ m (vāl), ਬਾਲ m (bāl), ਕੇਸ m (kes)
Purepecha: jauiri
Quechua: chukcha
Canka Quechua: cukca
Waiwaş Quechua: agza
Wanka Quechua: agca
Rohingya: sul
Romani: bal m
Romanian: păr (ro) m
Romansch: chavel m, tgavel m, chavè m, cavegl m (individual)
Russian: во́лосы (ru) m pl (vólosy) (usually plural), во́лос (ru) m (vólos) (individual), волоси́нка (ru) f (volosínka)
Saek: ผรั่ม
Saho: dagar
Sami:
Inari: vuoptâ (individual), vuoptah pl
Kildin: вӯппт (vūppt) (individual)
Northern: vuokta (individual), vuovttat pl
Skolt: vuõptt (individual), vuõpt pl
Southern: voepte (individual), voepth pl
Sanskrit: केश (sa) m (keśa), वाल (sa) (vāla)
Santali: ᱩᱵᱽ
Saterland Frisian: Hier n
Scots: hair
Scottish Gaelic: falt m, fuiltean m pl, gruag f, gruagan m pl
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: (collective) ко̀са f, (individual) дла̏ка f
Roman: (collective) kòsa (sh) f, (individual) dlȁka (sh) f
Shan: ၽူမ် (shn) (phǔum)
Sicilian: capiḍḍi m, capiḍḍu m (individual)
Sidamo: danana
Sinhalese: කොඳ (koⁿda)
Slovak: vlasy m pl, (individual) vlas m
Slovene: las m
Somali: timo
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: włos m or f
Upper Sorbian: włós m
Sotho: moriri
Southern Altai: чач (čač)
Spanish: cabello (es) m, pelo (es) m
Sumerian: 𒋠 (SÍK)
Sundanese: rambut, bu-uk
Svan: ფა̈თვ (pätv)
Swahili: unywele class 11/12
Swedish: hår (sv) n
Sylheti: ꠌꠥꠟ (sul)
Tabasaran: чӏар (č̣ar)
Tagalog: buhok (tl)
Tahitian: huruhuru, rouru
Tajik: мӯ (mü‍)
Tamil: முடி (ta) (muṭi)
Taos: phóna
Tarantino: capìdde m
Tatar: чәч (tt) (çäç)
Tausug: buhuk
Telugu: వెంట్రుకలు (te) (veṇṭrukalu), జుట్టు (te) (juṭṭu)
Tetum: fuuk
Thai: ผม (th) (pǒm)
Tibetan: སྐྲ (skra), དབུ་སྐྲ (dbu skra) (honorific)
Tigrinya: ጸጉሪ (ṣäguri)
Tocharian B: matsi
Tok Pisin: gras bilong het
Tongan: louʻulu
Tsonga: misisi
Turkish: saç (tr)
Turkmen: saç
Tuvan: дүк (dük)
Udi: поп (pop)
Ukrainian: (collective) воло́сся (uk) n (volóssja), (individual) во́лос (uk) m (vólos), во́лоси m pl (vólosy)
Urdu: بال m (bāl), کیش m (keś)
Uyghur: چاچ (ug) (chach)
Uzbek: soch (uz)
Venetan: cavel (vec) m
Vietnamese: tóc (vi)
Volapük: her (vo), (obsolete) hel
Walloon: tchvea (wa) m
Welsh: gwallt (cy) m, blew (cy) m pl
West Frisian: hier (fy) n
White Hmong: plaub hau
Winnebago: nąąju
Yakut: ас (as)
Yurok: 'leptoyhl
Yámana: ušta
Yiddish: האָר n (hor)
Yoruba: irun
Yup'ik: nuyaq
Zazaki: por (diq) n, gız n, sertu n
Zealandic: aer n
Zhuang: bwn'gyaeuj, byoem
Zulu: unwele (zu) class 11/10 :
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#### See also

* depilate, depilation, depilator, depilatory
* epilate, epilation, epilator, epilatory

### Verb

hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)
* (transitive) To remove the hair from.
** 1808, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 90:Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, we the said John Cant and John Millar do hereby declare that our said invention of a new method of tanning leather is described in the manner following : that our method of preparing hides and skins by liming, hairing, fleshing, and baiting, is the same as that in use by the most experienced tanners; that is to say: All leather that is to be dressed or curried, we use the operation of what tanners call baiting, for this reason; that the leather when curried should carry a sufficient quantity of oil, and dry a good colour.
** 1825, American Mechanics' Magazine - Volume 2, page 71:By his method raw hides, after hairing and baiting, are converted into leather in less than thirty hours.
** 1971, Reuben King, Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood, The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, page 49:I took 25 hides out of the Lime with Stephens help I haired them and fleshed them
* (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
** 1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312:He has haired up and healed over.
** 1887, National Stockman and Farmer - Volume 11, page 7:It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.
** 1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492:The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.
* (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
** 1937, Dyestuffs - Volume 35, Issue 1, page 1:THE following classes of fiber are employed for hairing dolls : human hair, mohair, cross-bred wool, horsehair, hog-bristle, unspun cotton. Human hair is only used for hairing dolls of an extremely expensive class.
** 2014, Lee Karr, Greg Nicotero, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead:So they did three different sculptures and then ran the masks and painted them, haired them, and sent them out to us.
** 2017, Andy Adams, Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings:The winter had haired them like llamas, the sleet had worked no hardship, as a horse paws to the grass, and any concern for the outside saddle stock was needless.
* To string the bow for a violin.
** 1896, Henry Saint-George, The Bow, Its History, Manufacture & Use, page 96:The bow is now haired, and all that remains to make it ready for use is to rosin it.
** 1969, John Alfred Bolander, Violin bow making, page 105:The tools used for hairing a bow by various reparimen can be unlimited in their selection. A bowmaker has a different attitude toward hairing than a repairman and this I believe reflects the type of the finished job that is done.
** 2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, page 108:To hair a bow, a hank of horse hair (A) is selected and combed so that all hairs are parallel to each other.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Riha, Ihar, Ahir, riah, Hira, Hari, HRIA

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haɾʲ/

### Verb

hair
* h-prothesized form of air

### Noun

hair
* h-prothesized form of air

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

hair (plural haires)
* Alternative form of her (“hair”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

hair (plural haires or hairen)
* Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

hair
* Alternative form of hor (“hoar”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

hair
* Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* hadir, haḍir, haïr

### Etymology

From Frankish *hattjan.

### Verb

hair
* to hate

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. First person singular present hez and present subjunctives are inherited from Frankish with regular sound changes of *-ttj- > -z/c-. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Related terms

* haïne

#### Descendants

* Middle French: haïr
** French: haïr
* Norman: haï

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خیر (hayır), from Arabic خَيْر (ḵayr, “good, well, wellbeing”).

### Noun

hair n (plural hairuri)
* share
* luck