haraz

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Old French haraz.

Noun

haraz m (plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants
  • French: haras

Old French

Etymology

According to Bratchet, from Arabic فَرَس (faras, “horse”).[1] However, Watkins suggests Old Norse hárr (“greyhaired”), referring to the greying of horses with age, or hár (“hair”), referring to stud horses not being saddled.[2] Also compare Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).[3]

Noun

haraz oblique singular, m (oblique plural haraz, nominative singular haraz, nominative plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (haras, supplement)
  1. Brachet, A. (1873) “haras”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
  2. “race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  3. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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