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From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰrēn- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.
dor (plural dors)
- A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying.
- Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
Translations
- Czech: chrobák velký
- Dutch: gewone mestkever (nl) m
- French: géotrupe du fumier m
- Ottoman Turkish: بوق بوجكی (bok böceği)
- Swedish: tordyvel c
Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.
dor (plural dors)
- (obsolete) A trick, joke, or deception.
1624 June 6 (licensing date), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?
dor (attributive dorre, comparative dorder, superlative dorste)
From Latin doleō. Compare Romanian durea.
dor first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative doari or doare, past participle durutã)
Usually used reflexively (e.g. "mi doari"- it hurts/pains (me)), as with the Romanian cognate, which is only conjugated in the 3rd person.
Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos). Compare Romanian dor.
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dor (definite accusative doru, plural dorlar)
Declension of dor | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | dor |
dorlar | ||||||
definite accusative | doru |
dorları | ||||||
dative | dora |
dorlara | ||||||
locative | dorda |
dorlarda | ||||||
ablative | dordan |
dorlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | dorun |
dorların |
- “dor” in Obastan.com.
From Middle Breton dor, from Proto-Brythonic *dor (compare Welsh dôr), from Proto-Celtic *dwār, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr.
dor f (plural dorioù)
Note: it is the last remnant of nasal mutation in Breton, and becomes "an nor".
From earlier dort, from Middle High German dort, from Old High German dorot, doret (“there”). Cognate with German dort (“there, yonder”).
dor
- (Sette Comuni) through, across, along
- de mèrchar dor de biizen ― the boundary markers along the meadow
- “dor” 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
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-.[1]
dor m (plural dorow)
(Earth): undergoes irregular mutation after definite article when referring to the Earth: an nor
- aval dor (“potato”)
- aval dor brewys (“mashed potato”)
- know dor (“peanuts”)
- ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 98 i (3)
From Middle Dutch dorre, from Old Dutch *thurri, from Proto-West Germanic *þurʀī, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.
dor (comparative dorder, superlative dorst)
Declension of dor | ||||
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uninflected | dor | |||
inflected | dorre | |||
comparative | dorder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | dor | dorder | het dorst het dorste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | dorre | dordere | dorste |
n. sing. | dor | dorder | dorste | |
plural | dorre | dordere | dorste | |
definite | dorre | dordere | dorste | |
partitive | dors | dorders | — |
From Old Galician-Portuguese door, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.
dor f (plural dores)
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “door”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “door”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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dor
- Alternative form of dōre
Compare dialectal dewr, from Arabic دور. Displaced native *wer which is still used as a prefix.
dor m (Arabic spelling دۆر)
From Proto-West Germanic *dor.
Cognate with Old Saxon dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂 (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old English duru, German Tür). Indo-European cognates include Greek θυρα (thyra), Latin foris, Lithuanian dùrys, Old Church Slavonic двьрь (dvĭrĭ) (Russian дверь (dverʹ)).
dōr n
Declension of dōr (strong a-stem)
From Proto-West Germanic *dor.
Cognate with Old English dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂 (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old Saxon duru, German Tür).
dor n
Declension of dor (neuter a-stem)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese door f (“pain”), from Latin dolōrem m, from Old Latin *dolōs, from Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to hew, split”). Compare Galician dor and Spanish dolor.
dor f (plural dores)
- pain (physical or emotional)
- Kabuverdianu: dór
- 𐴊𐴡𐴌 (dor) — Hanifi Rohingya script
From Bengali [Term?].
dor (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴡𐴌)
Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).[1] Compare Spanish duelo (“sorrow, mourning”), French deuil (“bereavement”).
dor n (plural doruri)
- wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing; a strong feeling of missing someone or something
- ^ dor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Archaic in Xunhua because they use vañ, a Chinese borrowing instead.
dor
- Potanin, G.N. (1893) “тор”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 430
- Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477. [1]
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “dor”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 80
- Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “dor”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 90
- 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “dor (only in Xinjiang)”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages - Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 278
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ.
dor m inan
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “dǻr”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch[3] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 170
dor
- First-person inclusive dual pronoun: you (singular) and I, you (singular) and me
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tōrug (“bay”).[1] Cognate with Turkish doru.
dor (comparative dorrak, superlative iň dor)[2]
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “toruğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 538
- ^ dor at Ene dilim
dor
- Soft mutation of tor.