haraz

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Old French haraz.

Noun

haraz m (plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants
  • French: haras

Old French

Etymology

According to Bratchet, from Arabic فَرَس‎ (faras, “horse”).[1] However, Watkins suggests Old Norse hárr (“greyhaired”), referring to the greying of horses with age, or hár (“hair”), referring to stud horses not being saddled.[2] Also compare Arabic رَأْس‎ (raʔs, “head”).[3]

Noun

haraz oblique singular, m (oblique plural haraz, nominative singular haraz, nominative plural haraz)

  1. troop of horses

Descendants

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (haras, supplement)
  1. Brachet, A. (1873), “haras”, in , Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
  2. “race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  3. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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