hoarse

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• Received-Pronunciation: hôs
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• Received-Pronunciation: /hɔːs/
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• General-American: hôrs
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• General-American:
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• homophone: horse (horse–hoarse merger)
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s
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• hōrs rhotic
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• /hoː(ə)ɹs/ rhotic
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• /hoəs/ non-rhotic
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• Early, English, Modern:
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَبْحُوح (mabḥūḥ) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Arabic: مبحوب (mabḥūb) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Armenian: խռպոտ (xṙpot) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Central Bikol: paas — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Bulgarian: дрезгав (drezgav) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Bulgarian: пресипнал (presipnal) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Bulgarian: прегракнал (pregraknal) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Catalan: ronc — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Catalan: rogallós — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Chinese Mandarin: 粗啞 /粗哑 (cūyǎ) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙啞 /沙哑 (shāyǎ) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Chinese Mandarin: 嘶啞 /嘶哑 (sīyǎ) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Czech: chraptivý — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Czech: chraplavý — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Czech: křaplavý — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Czech: ochraptělý — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Danish: hæs — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Dutch: schor — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Dutch: hees — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Esperanto: raŭka — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Estonian: kähe — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Finnish: käheä — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• French: enroué — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Galician: rouco — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Galician: roufeño — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• German: heiser — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Greek: βραχνός (vrachnós) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Hebrew: צרוד (tzarud) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Hungarian: rekedt — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Icelandic: hás — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Icelandic: rámur — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Indonesian: parau — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Ingrian: kommia — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Irish: piachánach — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Irish: cársánach — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Italian: rauco — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Italian: atono — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Latin: raucus — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Luxembourgish: hees — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Macedonian: засипнат (zasipnat) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Malay: garau — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Malay: parau — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Mansaka: paos — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Māori: whango — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Maranao: pa'os — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Eastern Mari: оралге (oralge) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Eastern Mari: кыжга (kyžga) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Eastern Mari: лоргышо (lorgyšo) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Middle English: hos — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Navajo: bizhítsoh — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Norman: râpeux — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Norwegian Bokmål: hes — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Norwegian Bokmål: hås — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hes — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hås — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Old English: hās — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Old Galician-Portuguese: rouco — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Pohnpeian: ngilekir — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Polish: ochrypły — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Portuguese: rouco — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Romanian: răgușit — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Russian: хри́плый (hriply) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Russian: охри́пший (ohripshiy) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Serbo-Croatian: hrapav — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Slovene: hripav — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Spanish: ronco — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Spanish: afónico — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Spanish: con voz tomada — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Swedish: hes — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Tausug: pagaw — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Ukrainian: захри́плий (zaxrýplyj) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Vietnamese: khàn — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Welsh: cryg — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice
• Yiddish: הייזעריק (heyzerik) — afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice