lahar
/ˈlɑhɑɹ/noun
lahar is a noun meaning “A volcanic mudflow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-H-A-R, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lahar is lahars.
What does lahar mean?
noun
- 1
A volcanic mudflow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lahar?
- /ˈlɑhɑɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lahar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lahar
- lahars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lahar?
Lahar appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lahar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense volcanic mudflow:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lahar come from?
Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).