hair

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Eclipsed non-native, , borrowed from.

The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from (haircloth) influenced by.

Noun

 * 1)  A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
 * 2)  The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
 * 3)  A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
 * 4)  A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
 * 5)  Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
 * The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
 * 1)  A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
 * 2)  Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
 * 3)  Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
 * 4) * January 2014,, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
 * Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
 * 1)  A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
 * 2)  Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
 * 3)  Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
 * 4) * January 2014,, quoted in "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, in The New Yorker
 * Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.
 * Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy.

Usage notes

 * The word hair is usually used without an article in singular number when it refers to all the hairs on one's head in general. But if it refers to more than one hair, a few hairs, then it takes the plural form with an article and needs a plural verb.

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "hair": long, short, curly, straight, wavy, dark, blonde, black, brown, red, blue, green, purple, coarse, fine, healthy, damaged, messy, beautiful, perfect, natural, dyed.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Breton:
 * Guaraní:
 * Latin:
 * Malagasy:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:
 * Pitjantjatjara:
 * Romanian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tupinambá:

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the hair from.
 * 2)  To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
 * 3)  To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
 * 4) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1)  To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
 * 2)  To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
 * 3) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1)  To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
 * 2) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1) To string the bow for a violin.
 * 1) To string the bow for a violin.

Translations

 * Finnish: poistaa karva


 * Finnish: karvoittua


 * Finnish: tehdä hiukset ; kasvattaa hiukset ; kasvattaa karva


 * Finnish:

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to hate

Related terms

 * haïne

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) share
 * 2) luck