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From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
kor (plural kors)
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
2002, Don Victor Bovey, In Touch With Eternity, page 161:
Solomon responded by committing 20,000 kors of pure oil and 20,000 kors of wheat in annual payments. A kor of oil is an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid of about 58 gallons. A kor of wheat is equal to 6.25 bushels.
Borrowed from Classical Persian کور (kōr).
kor (comparative daha kor, superlative ən kor)
- kar (“deaf”)
kor
- Alternative form of ka
- Ich ghèa inn kor Baan. ― I'm going to Roana.
- “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
kor f (singulative koren)
From Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Stearns argues that the spelling is a misprint for unattested *korn.[1]
kor
- wheat
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Kor. Triticum.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
From Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).
kor n (singular definite koret, plural indefinite kor)
- “kor” in Den Danske Ordbog
From earlier korre, from earlier korde.
kor f (plural korren, diminutive korretje n)
kor
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).[1]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “examples of Turkic cognates?”)
kor (plural korok)
- (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.
- age (a great period in the history of the Earth)
- bronzkor ― Bronze Age
- (geology) epoch
- eocén kor ― Eocene epoch
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kor | korok |
accusative | kort | korokat |
dative | kornak | koroknak |
instrumental | korral | korokkal |
causal-final | korért | korokért |
translative | korrá | korokká |
terminative | korig | korokig |
essive-formal | korként | korokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | korban | korokban |
superessive | koron | korokon |
adessive | kornál | koroknál |
illative | korba | korokba |
sublative | korra | korokra |
allative | korhoz | korokhoz |
elative | korból | korokból |
delative | korról | korokról |
ablative | kortól | koroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
koré | koroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
koréi | korokéi |
Possessive forms of kor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | korom | koraim |
2nd person sing. | korod | koraid |
3rd person sing. | kora | korai |
1st person plural | korunk | koraink |
2nd person plural | korotok | koraitok |
3rd person plural | koruk | koraik |
The multiple-possession forms are practically nonexistent; the form korai coincides with another lexeme.
- ^ kor in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- kor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
From Dutch koor (“choir”), from Middle Dutch côor, from Latin chorus. Cognate with Afrikaans koor, English choir.
kor (first-person possessive korku, second-person possessive kormu, third-person possessive kornya)
- (music) choir, vocal ensemble.
- Synonym: paduan suara
The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay kor.
- koir [kuayer] (Standard Malay)
- “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.
kor
kor
- A chorus.
From English corps, from French corps d’armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”).
kor (informal 1st possessive korku, 2nd possessive kormu, 3rd possessive kornya)
The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian kor.
- korps (“corps”) (Indonesian)
- “kor” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
kor
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/).
kor (comparative kortir, superlative herî kor, Arabic spelling کۆر)
- 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
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”).
kor n (definite singular koret, indefinite plural kor, definite plural kora or korene)
kor
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hvor
- “kor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- IPA(key): /kʊrː/, /kuːr/ (with a soft r-sound)
- IPA(key): /kʊrː/, /kuːʁ/ (with guttural accent, also called Skarre-r)
kor
- how
Kor mykje skal du ha?
- How much do you want?
- where
- Synonym: kvar
Kor er alle saman?
- Where is everybody?
From Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”).
kor n (definite singular koret, indefinite plural kor, definite plural kora)
- “kor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Norwegian Nynorsk kor (“how, where”).
kor
- where
Kor ju stannom på gammel ras?
- Where did you stay at yesterday?
- how
Kor ju fare leve?
- How is it going with your father?
- why
Kor ju ikke paa moja mokka kladi?
- Why do you not bring me the flour?
- Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag
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.
kor
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
kor
- indefinite plural of ko
From Old Swedish kor, from Old Norse kórr, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).
kor n
Declension of kor | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kor | koret | kor | koren |
Genitive | kors | korets | kors | korens |
(in church architecture):
(singing):
Cognate with Persian کر (kar).
kor
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi), whence also Tocharian B koṭ.
kor
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱówH- (“hollow”); compare Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “zero”), Latin cavus (“hollow”), Ancient Greek κύαρ (kúar, “eye of a needle, earhole”).
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kor ?
- Alternative form of koṭ (“ten million”)
- 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
From Ottoman Turkish قور (qor, “glowing coal, ember”), from Proto-Turkic *kōr (“glowing coals”). Akin to köz (“ember”).
kor (definite accusative koru, plural korlar)
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Nominative | kor | korlar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | koru | korları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kora | korlara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | korda | korlarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genitive | korun | korların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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kor
- (figurative, by extension) red
2014 September 24, Görkem Gündüz (lyrics and music), “Yeter Ki Susma [Just Don't Be Quiet]”, in Uçurumlar Arasında [Between Cliffs][3], performed by Asena Özçetin:
Sen dedin: “Tüm öfkenle çık karşıma” / “Bedenimde kor ateşler yak”
- You said, “Confront me with all the anger of yours” / “Set red fires on my body”
From Proto-Turkic *kur (“rank, stage, row”). Related to now archaic kur (“rank, degree, limit”).
kor (nominative plural kors)
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- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad
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