hoarse

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , , akin to 🇨🇬 (West Norse) and (East Norse) (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬).

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * 1) Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَبْحُوح
 * Egyptian Arabic: مبحوب
 * Armenian:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, chraplavý, křaplavý, ochraptělý
 * Danish: hæs
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: raŭka
 * Estonian: kähe
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: rouco, roufeño
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ; rámur
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kommia
 * Irish: piachánach, cársánach
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: raucus
 * Luxembourgish: hees
 * Macedonian: засипнат
 * Malay:, parau
 * Mansaka: paos
 * Maori: whango
 * Maranao: pa'os
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: оралге, кыжга, лоргышо
 * Middle English: hos
 * Navajo: bizhítsoh
 * Norman: râpeux
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: hās
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: rouco
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , con (la) voz tomada
 * Swedish:
 * Tausug: pagaw
 * Ukrainian: захри́плий
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: הייזעריק

Verb

 * 1)  To utter hoarsely; to croak.

Noun

 * 1) * 1668, act, quoted in 1912, Sandwich and Bourne, Colony and Town Records, page 20:
 * The 15. 3 mo. 1668 - An act maid in a Towne Meting to provent hoarses and meares from doinge damage, as foloeth. All such hoarses and meares, as comonly kepes about the towne, or in the towne stretes, or comonly doth goe in to the towne neck,
 * , quoted in 1934, The North Carolina Historical Review (and also in 1981, Doris Cline Ward, Charles D. Biddix, The Heritage of Old Buncombe County):
 * we got in to Town after Dark on the 18th I staid in Town Mr. Newnon's hoarse got Lame and him &amp; I swapt'd hoarses and Drank whiskey on the 19th he Started home I staid in Town Expecting some intillegence from Mr.Taylor on the 20th we made a Party and went to the Paths and Run every turkey in
 * we got in to Town after Dark on the 18th I staid in Town Mr. Newnon's hoarse got Lame and him &amp; I swapt'd hoarses and Drank whiskey on the 19th he Started home I staid in Town Expecting some intillegence from Mr.Taylor on the 20th we made a Party and went to the Paths and Run every turkey in