half-hour

See also: half hour

English

Alternative forms

• half hour

Etymology

From half- +‎ hour.

Noun

half-hour (plural half-hours)

1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
   • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 121:

     The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]

     Used in both senses.

Synonyms

• (a thirty minute period of time): half an hour

Derived terms

• half-hourly

Translations

period

Arabic: نِصْف سَاعَة (niṣf sāʕa) Belarusian: паўгадзі́ны (paŭhadzíny) Burmese: နာရီဝက် (my) (nariwak) Chinese: Mandarin: 半小時／半小时 (zh) (bànxiǎoshí) Czech: půlhodina (cs) f Dutch: halfuur (nl) n Esperanto: duonhoro Finnish: puoli tuntia, puolituntinen French: demi-heure (fr) f German: halbe Stunde f Greek: μισάωρο (el) n (misáoro), ημίωρο (el) n (imíoro) Ancient Greek: ἡμιώριον n (hēmiṓrion) Icelandic: hálftími m Irish: leathuair Italian: mezz'ora (it) f Japanese: 半時間 (ja) (はんじかん, hanjikan) Korean: 반시간(半時間) (bansigan) Latin: sēmihōra f Lithuanian: pusvalanduko Norman: démi-heuthe f Norwegian: Bokmål: halvtime m Nynorsk: halvtime m Old English: healf tīd f Polish: pół godziny Portuguese: meia hora f Russian: полчаса́ (ru) n pl (polčasá) Swedish: halvtimme (sv) c, halvtimma (sv) c Ukrainian: півгоди́ни (pivhodýny)

time

Finnish: puoli (fi) Portuguese: meia (pt) f Swedish: halv (sv)