Harbour

Alternative forms

 * herberwe
 * harborough
 * harbor

Etymology
From herber:, herberge:, from  herebeorg:, from  +, equivalent to  here: + gebeorg:. Cognate with Old Norse herbergi: (whence the Icelandic herbergi:), Dutch herberg, German Herberge ‘hospice’, Swedish härbärge:. Compare also French auberge:. More at here,.

Pronunciation

 * (UK),

Noun

 * 1)  Shelter, refuge.
 * 2) A place of shelter or refuge.
 * The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
 * 1)  A house of the zodiac.
 * 2) * Late C14: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
 * 3) A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
 * The city has an excellent natural harbour.

Derived terms

 * harbourage
 * harbourmaster
 * unharboured

Translations

 * Finnish: turvapaikka, turvasatama
 * French:


 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans: hawe
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 港 (gǎng)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: hono
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Latin:
 * Malay:
 * Maori:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: гавань (gávan’)
 * Scottish Gaelic: port, cala, acarsaid
 * Serbian: pristanište
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hamn
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1)  To provide shelter or refuge for.
 * The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.

Translations

 * Finnish: suojella, tarjota suojapaikka
 * French:


 * Hebrew: להעניק מחסה
 * Portuguese: