hart

Meanings

1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
2. The meat from this animal.
3. The stag of any deer species.

1. Obsolete spelling of heart.

1. In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
2. A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
3. A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
4. A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
5. A tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire and ultimately of the Thames; in full, the River Hart.
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. A ghost town in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
8. A city, the county seat of Oceana County, Michigan.
9. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Winona County, Minnesota.
10. An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
11. A ghost town in Macon County, Missouri.
12. A minor city in Castro County, Texas.

1. Initialism of hazardous area response team.

Etymology

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.