Uhar

Uhar

Uhar, "uharre" or "ugarre" is a Basque word for 'torrent'. It is also known through its derivates uhaitz / ugaitz 'torrential river' and uharka 'tank'.

It may be found in some place names as:

Village names

* Ugartzan, Uhartzane < *Uhartzengo ("uaurcengo" in 1249; "ugarrçaun" in 1366), a hamlet of the commune of Ossès, Lower Navarre, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

River names

*Ugarre, brooks in Larrau and Esterençuby
*Uharka, brook in Sare
*Uharratea ("Uharatia"), tributary of the "Otsarteko erreka" in Iholdy


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