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Hamar

name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: HH AH0 M AA1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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name

Meaning 1

A town with bystatus and municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hedmark.

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name

Meaning 2

A surname.

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3

name

Meaning 3

Alternative spelling of Xamar (“Mogadishu”).

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Usage: alt-of, alternative

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noun

Meaning 4

A community of mostly pastoralist people inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia.

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Usage: plural, plural-only

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Hamar, from Old Norse Hamarr, identical to hamarr (“rocky hill”).

* As a Hungarian surname, a nickname from hamar (“fast”). * As a Norwegian, surname, a habitational surname from hamar (“hammer; stone, cliff, crag”). * As an English surname, variant of Hamer.

From Hamer-Banna hámar.

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