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Definitions and meaning of kor

kor

Translingual

Symbol

kor

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Korean.

English

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

Noun

kor (plural kors)

  1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

See also

  • kor kor

Anagrams

  • OKR, ROK, ork, rok

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کور (kōr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [cor], [cor̥], [t͡ʃor̥]

Adjective

kor (comparative daha kor, superlative ən kor)

  1. blind

See also

  • kar (“deaf”)

Cimbrian

Preposition

kor

  1. alternative form of ka
    Ich ghèa inn kor Baan. ― I'm going to Roana.

Further reading

  • “kor” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Noun

kor f (singulative koren)

  1. wax

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Stearns argues that the spelling is a misprint for unattested *korn.

Noun

kor

  1. wheat
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Kor. Triticum.

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koːr/, [kʰoɐ̯ˀ]
  • Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

kor n (singular definite koret, plural indefinite kor)

  1. choir (singing group)
  2. chancel, choir (part of church housing the altar)

Declension

Further reading

  • “kor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From earlier korre, assimilated from earlier korde with metathesis r < krode, from Middle Dutch crode (“wheelbarrow”), from the verb cruden (“to push forward, slide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔr/
  • Hyphenation: kor
  • Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

kor f (plural korren, diminutive korretje n)

  1. a trawl, a dragnet used for trawling over or close to the seabed

Derived terms

  • boomkor
  • korren
  • pulskor

German

Verb

kor

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of kiesen
  2. first/third-person singular preterite of küren

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “examples of Turkic cognates?”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkor]
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

kor (plural korok)

  1. (often with a possessive suffix) age (a certain period of time in the life of an individual)
    öregkor ― old age
    Hatéves koromban kezdtem zenét tanulni. ― I started music lessons at age six.
  2. age (a great period in the history of the Earth)
    bronzkor ― Bronze Age
  3. (geology) epoch
    eocén kor ― Eocene epoch

Declension

The multiple-possession forms are practically nonexistent; the form korai coincides with another lexeme.

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • kor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch koor (“choir”), from Middle Dutch côor, from Latin chorus. Cognate with Afrikaans koor, English choir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr/
  • Hyphenation: kor

Noun

kor (plural kor-kor)

  1. (music) choir, vocal ensemble
    Synonym: paduan suara

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay kor.

Alternative forms

  • koir [kuayer] (Standard Malay)

Further reading

  • “kor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kamta

Verb

kor

  1. do

Conjugation

Lun Bawang

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /kor/

Noun

kor

  1. A chorus.

Malay

Etymology

From English corps, from French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”).

Noun

kor

  1. corps.

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian kor.

Alternative forms

  • korps (“corps”) (Indonesian)

Further reading

  • “kor” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Matal

Verb

kor

  1. to have, gain

Derived terms

  • makoray

References

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Cognate with Armenian կույր (kuyr, “blind”) from Old Armenian կոյր (koyr, “blind”). Compare also Persian کور (kur), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwl), 𐫐𐫇𐫡 (kwr), 𐫞𐫇𐫡 (qwr /⁠kōr⁠/, “blind”), Sogdian [script needed] (kwr /⁠kōr⁠/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koːɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oːɾ

Adjective

kor (comparative kortir, superlative herî kor, Arabic spelling کۆر)

  1. blind

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “kor”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 332

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus (“chorus”), from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “dance ring, chorus, choir, band of singers and dancers”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“enclose”).

Noun

kor n (definite singular koret, indefinite plural kor, definite plural kora or korene)

  1. choir (singing group)
  2. chancel, choir (part of church housing the altar)
Derived terms
  • kordirigent
  • korsanger

Etymology 2

Adverb

kor

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hvor

References

  • “kor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hvar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurː/, /kuːr/, (some dialects when unstressed) /ku/
  • IPA(key): /kurː/, /kuːʁ/ (in dialects with guttural r)

Adverb

kor

  1. how
  2. where
    Synonym: kvar

Etymology 2

From Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːr/

Noun

kor n (definite singular koret, indefinite plural kor, definite plural kora)

  1. choir (singing group)
  2. chancel, choir (part of church housing the altar)
Derived terms
  • kordirigent

References

  • “kor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Russenorsk

Etymology

From Norwegian Nynorsk kor (“how, where”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurʲ/

Adverb

kor

  1. where
  2. how
  3. why

See also

  • kak
  • kodi
  • куры фра (kury fra)

References

  • Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

Samogitian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *kur, from the same Proto-Indo-European stem *kʷu-, *kʷo- as the interrogative pronoun kas. Compare Latgalian kur, Latvian kur, Lithuanian kur.

Adverb

kor

  1. (interrogative) where?
  2. (relative) where

See also

  • bikor

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːr/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kor

  1. indefinite plural of ko

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish kor, from Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Noun

kor n

  1. chancel, choir, the part of a church housing the altar
  2. (dated) a choir (group of singing people)
Declension
Related terms

(in church architecture):

(singing):

References

  • kor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • kor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • ork

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian کر (kar).

Adjective

kor

  1. deaf

Tocharian A

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi), whence also Tocharian B koṭ.

Noun

kor

  1. ten million

Tocharian B

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱówH- (“hollow”); compare Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “zero”), Latin cavus (“hollow”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of a needle, earhole”).

Noun

kor

  1. (anatomy) throat

Etymology 2

Noun

kor ?

  1. alternative form of koṭ (“ten million”)

References

  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “[śūcī- - śū́ra-]”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 650

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish قور (qor, “glowing coal, ember”), from Proto-Turkic *kōr (“glowing coals”). Akin to köz (“ember”).

Noun

kor (definite accusative koru, plural korlar)

  1. ember
Declension

Adjective

kor

  1. (figurative, by extension) red
See also
  • cüruf
  • köz

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *kur (“rank, stage, row”). Related to now archaic kur (“rank, degree, limit”).

Noun

kor (definite accusative koru, plural korlar)

  1. (dialectal) order, row, sequence
  2. (dialectal) line, strip, grid
Alternative forms
  • gor (dialectal)

Volapük

Noun

kor (nominative plural kors)

  1. choir

Declension

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koɾ/

Adverb

kor

  1. very

References

  • Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian کور (kur).

Adjective

kor

  1. blind

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