haar

/hɑː(ɹ)/

Etymology

Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”). Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”). Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).

haar means A municipality near Munich, Germany. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

name

A municipality near Munich, Germany.

noun

Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.“The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.”
A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.“[…] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]”