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• hûrs
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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɜːs/
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• General-American: /hɝs/
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• homophone: herse
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• CMU ARPABET: HH ER1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular framework used to support candles". Ultimately the same word as Old French herce (“harrow”), from Latin *herpicem, accusative singular of *herpex, a variant form of hirpex (“harrow”). The agricultural device's name comes from Oscan hirpus (“wolf”), a reference to a harrow's many teeth. The term for wolf may ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute. The TLFi considers the "framework to support candles" sense of the French word to be derived more specifically from Medieval Latin hercia; in any case, this is ultimately from the same source. (Du Cange sees in hercia a contraction of an extended form *herpicia. It may instead simply be a Latinization of Old French herce.) Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”).

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: балдахі́н (baldaxín) — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Catalan: baldaquí — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Catalan: cadafal — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Czech: katafalk — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Dutch: baldakijn — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Dutch: overhuiving — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• French: baldaquin — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Italian: baldacchino — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Italian: catafalco — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Russian: балдахи́н (baldaxín) — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Ukrainian: балдахі́н (baldaxín) — framework placed over coffin or tomb
• Bulgarian: гроб (grob) — grave, coffin, tomb
• Dutch: graf — grave, coffin, tomb
• Dutch: lijkkist — grave, coffin, tomb
• Dutch: graftombe — grave, coffin, tomb
• French: tombe — grave, coffin, tomb
• French: cercueil — grave, coffin, tomb
• Macedonian: гроб (grob) — grave, coffin, tomb
• Russian: моги́ла (mogíla) — grave, coffin, tomb
• Russian: гроб (grob) — grave, coffin, tomb
• Russian: гробни́ца (grobníca) — grave, coffin, tomb
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̏б — grave, coffin, tomb
• Serbo-Croatian: гро̏бница — grave, coffin, tomb
• Serbo-Croatian: grȍb — grave, coffin, tomb
• Serbo-Croatian: grȍbnica — grave, coffin, tomb
• Belarusian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Bulgarian: катафа́лка (katafálka) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Czech: máry — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Dutch: katafalk — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Finnish: ruumispaarit — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Irish: eileatram — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Italian: cataletto — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Macedonian: но́сило (nósilo) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Macedonian: катафа́лка (katafálka) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Norwegian Bokmål: likvogn — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Russian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Russian: дро́ги (drógi) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: ката̀фалк — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Serbo-Croatian: katàfalk — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Ukrainian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Welsh: elor — bier or handbarrow for carrying the dead
• Arabic: سَيَّارة نَقْل مَوْتَى (sayyāra naql mawtā) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Arabic: عَرَبة نَقْل مَوْتَى (ʕaraba naql mawtā) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Armenian: դիակառք (diakaṙkʻ) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Azerbaijani: mafə — vehicle for transporting dead
• Belarusian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Bulgarian: катафа́лка (katafálka) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chichewa: gálímoto class 9/6 — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chinese Cantonese: 靈車 /灵车 (ling4 ce1) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 柩車 /柩车 (jiùchē) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 殯車 /殡车 (bìnchē) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 靈車 /灵车 (língchē) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Chinese Mandarin: 靈柩車 /灵柩车 (língjiù chē) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Czech: pohřební vůz — vehicle for transporting dead
• Danish: ligvogn — vehicle for transporting dead
• Danish: rustvogn — vehicle for transporting dead
• Dutch: lijkwagen — vehicle for transporting dead
• Dutch: rouwkoets — vehicle for transporting dead
• Esperanto: ĉerkveturilo — vehicle for transporting dead
• Faroese: líkbilur — vehicle for transporting dead
• Finnish: ruumisauto — vehicle for transporting dead
• Finnish: ruumisvaunut — vehicle for transporting dead
• French: corbillard — vehicle for transporting dead
• Georgian: კატაფალკი (ḳaṭapalḳi) — vehicle for transporting dead
• German: Leichenwagen — vehicle for transporting dead
• Greek: νεκροφόρα (nekrofóra) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Hungarian: halottaskocsi — vehicle for transporting dead
• Icelandic: líkbíll — vehicle for transporting dead
• Ido: sarkoveturo — vehicle for transporting dead
• Irish: eileatram — vehicle for transporting dead
• Irish: marbhchóiste — vehicle for transporting dead
• Irish: cóiste marbh — vehicle for transporting dead
• Italian: carro funebre — vehicle for transporting dead
• Japanese: 霊柩車 (reikyūsha) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Japanese: 柩車 (kyūsha) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Korean: 영구차 (yeonggucha) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Korean: 령구차 (ryeonggucha) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Latvian: katafalks — vehicle for transporting dead
• Lithuanian: katafalkas — vehicle for transporting dead
• Macedonian: катафа́лка (katafálka) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Malay: van jenazah — vehicle for transporting dead
• Māori: waka tūpāpaku — vehicle for transporting dead
• Norman: hèrse — vehicle for transporting dead
• Norwegian Bokmål: likbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Norwegian Bokmål: begravelsesbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Norwegian Nynorsk: likbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gravferdsbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Iranian Persian: نَعْشکِش (na'š-keš) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Polish: karawan — vehicle for transporting dead
• Portuguese: rabecão — vehicle for transporting dead
• Portuguese: carro fúnebre — vehicle for transporting dead
• Romanian: dric — vehicle for transporting dead
• Russian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Russian: дро́ги (drógi) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Serbo-Croatian: mrtvačka kola — vehicle for transporting dead
• Slovak: pohrebný voz — vehicle for transporting dead
• Slovene: mrliški voz — vehicle for transporting dead
• Spanish: coche fúnebre — vehicle for transporting dead
• Spanish: carroza — vehicle for transporting dead
• Swedish: likbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Swedish: bårbil — vehicle for transporting dead
• Swedish: likvagn — vehicle for transporting dead
• Turkish: cenaze arabası — vehicle for transporting dead
• Ukrainian: катафа́лк (katafálk) — vehicle for transporting dead
• Uzbek: katafalk — vehicle for transporting dead
• Vietnamese: xe tang — vehicle for transporting dead
• Vietnamese: xe hòm — vehicle for transporting dead
• Welsh: hers — vehicle for transporting dead
• Welsh: elor-gerbyd — vehicle for transporting dead
• Dutch: tweejarige hinde — hind on her second year
• Finnish: vuonelo — hind on her second year
• Italian: cerbiatta — hind on her second year
• Italian: cerva — hind on her second year
• Serbo-Croatian: košuta dvogodišnjakinja — hind on her second year