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4-letter words (4 found)

RATO,ROTA,TARO,TORA,

3-letter words (10 found)

ART,OAR,OAT,ORA,ORT,RAT,ROT,TAO,TAR,TOR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AR,AT,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 19 words from tora according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tora

tora

Albanian

Verb

tora

  1. first-person plural aorist indicative of tjerr

Aromanian

Etymology

From Greek τώρα (tóra, “now”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtora]

Adverb

tora

  1. now

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin phthora, from Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈto.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈto.ɾa]

Noun

tora f (plural tores)

  1. aconite
    Synonym: acònit

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tora”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “tora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʰoːɹa/
  • Rhymes: -oːɹa
  • Homophone: torað

Etymology 1

Noun

tora f (genitive singular toru, uncountable)

  1. thunder
Declension
Derived terms
  • toruljós
  • torusláttur
  • toruskýggj
  • toruveður
Related terms
  • ódnarveður
  • ravmagn
  • snarljós
  • skýggj
  • luft

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þora.

Verb

tora (third person singular past indicative tordi, third person plural past indicative tordu, supine torað, tort)

  1. To dare something.
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • vága

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tora, from Proto-Uralic *tora. Cognates include Erzya тюрема (ťurema, “fight, war”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtorɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞rɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -orɑ
  • Syllabification(key): to‧ra
  • Hyphenation(key): to‧ra

Noun

tora

  1. quarrel (verbal dispute or heated argument)

Declension

Synonyms

  • eripura
  • riita
  • kiista

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tora”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Arto, Atro, arot, orat, raot

Galician

Verb

tora

  1. inflection of torar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tora. Cognates include Finnish tora and Estonian tõra.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈtorɑ/, [ˈto̞rɑ]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈtorɑ/, [ˈto̞rɑ]
  • Rhymes: -orɑ
  • Hyphenation: to‧ra

Noun

tora

  1. quarrel

Declension

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

tora

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とら
  2. Rōmaji transcription of トラ

Karelian

Noun

tora

  1. battle

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew תּוֹרָה (torá).

Proper noun

tora (Hebrew spelling תורה)

  1. (Judaism) Torah

Further reading

  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “torá”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “Torá”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 558
  • Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “Tora”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 378

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þora. Cognates include Icelandic þora, Danish turde, Norwegian Bokmål tørre and Faroese tora. Some also come in their mediopassive variants, Swedish töras, as does also the deponent Norwegian Nynorsk torast.

Verb

tora (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)

  1. (intransitive) to dare
    Synonyms: drista, våga
Usage notes
  • This is a split infinitive verb.
Alternative forms
  • tore (e-infinitive)
Related terms
  • torast

Etymology 2

From Biblical Hebrew תּוֹרָה (“instruction, law or teaching”).

Noun

tora m (definite singular toraen, indefinite plural toraer or toraar, definite plural toraene or toraane)

  1. Torah

Etymology 3

Noun

tora f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer or toror, definite plural torene or torone)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tore
  2. definite singular of tore

Verb

tora (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tora/tor)

  1. alternative spelling of tore

References

  • “tora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • orta, otra, rota, toar, troa

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: to‧ra

Etymology 1

From toro (“torus, tree ring”).

Noun

tora f (plural toras)

  1. (Brazil) log (cut and cleared trunk of a tree)
    Synonym: cepo

Etymology 2

Verb

tora

  1. inflection of torar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tora

  1. genitive singular of tor

Sora

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoraː/

Noun

tora

  1. fringe of cloth

References

  • Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾa/ [ˈt̪o.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: to‧ra

Noun

tora f (plural toras)

  1. (Honduras, Nicaragua) leatherback (species of sea turtle)
    Synonym: baula

Further reading

  • “tora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • torah

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה.

Noun

tora c

  1. a Torah

Usage notes

Toror is the intuitive plural, but seems rare.

Declension

Related terms

  • Tora (“Torah”)

References

  • tora in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tora in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tora in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Noun

tora

  1. dative singular of tor

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tora, from Proto-Uralic *torɜ. Cognates include Finnish tora.

Noun

tora

  1. fight, scuffle
  2. battle

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “битва, драка, рукопашная, свалка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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