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Hora

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A goddess of the seasons; one of the Horae. especially, plural
Noun
  1. 1
    A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
  2. 2
    A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods. uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”). Doublet of choir, chorus, and quire.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit होरा (horā, “hour”). Doublet of hour and year.

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