mohair

See also: Mohair

English

Etymology

Earlier mocayre, from Middle French mocayart and Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, both from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”), past participle of خَيَّرَ (ḵayyara, “to choose”). Form probably influenced by hair. Compare mockado, moire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊhɛə/

Noun

mohair (countable and uncountable, plural mohairs)

1. Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials.
2. The long, fine hair of the Angora goat.
3. An Angora goat.

   mohair goat, mohair kid

Descendants

• → French: moire (semi-learned), → mohair
  • → Italian: amoerro, amoerre, moerro, muerre (semi-learned), → moire
• → German: Mohair
• → Italian: mohair
• → Japanese: モヘア (mohea)
• → Portuguese: mohair
• → Russian: мохе́р (moxér)
• → Spanish: mohair
• ⇒ Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 馬海毛 / 马海毛 (mǎhǎimáo)/马海毛 (mǎhǎimáo)
  • Cantonese: 馬海毛 / 马海毛 (maa⁵ hoi² mou⁴)

Translations

fine hair of the Angora goat

• Armenian: մուխայար (muxayar) (obsolete)
• Bulgarian: мохер m (moher)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬海毛 / 马海毛 (mǎhǎimáo)

• Czech: mohér
• Dutch: mohair (nl) n
• Estonian: mohäär
• Galician: mohair m
• German: Mohair (de) m or n
• Irish: móihéar m
• Italian: mocaiardo m (archaic)
• Japanese: モヘア (mohea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: merez (ku)

• Ottoman Turkish: تفتك (tiftik)
• Persian: موهر (fa) (moher)
• Polish: moher (pl)
• Portuguese: mohair m
• Russian: мохе́р (ru) m (moxér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мохер m, тифтик m

  Roman: moher (sh) m, tiftik (sh) m

• Spanish: mohair m
• Turkish: tiftik (tr), moher (tr)

Anagrams

• Mahori, Moriah, homrai

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ɛʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

mohair m (plural mohairs)

1. mohair

Further reading

• “mohair”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mohair, itself a borrowing from English mohair, from Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fiber)

Related terms

• amoerro
• moire

Further reading

• mohair in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.aˈi(ʁ)/ [mo.aˈi(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.aˈi(ʁ)/ [mo.aˈi(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /mo.aˈi(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /mo.aˈi(ʁ)/ [mo.aˈi(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.aˈi(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ɐˈiɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ɐˈiɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ɐˈi.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: mo‧ha‧ir

Noun

mohair m (uncountable)

1. mohair (fine hair of the Angora goat)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mohair.

Noun

mohair n (plural mohairuri)

1. mohair

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mohair	mohairul		mohairuri	mohairurile
genitive-dative	mohair	mohairului		mohairuri	mohairurilor
vocative	mohairule			mohairurilor

Spanish

Noun

mohair m (plural mohaires)

1. mohair