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From Hokkien 囉/啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉/啰 (lo1).
lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)
- Used to convey a sense of resignation.
- Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.
- OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.
- Bo pian lor. ― We don’t have a choice.
2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:
[B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’
- Asserts that the answer to something is obvious or straightforward.
- You lor, or else still got who? ― It’s obviously you then.
- Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.
- Used to emphasise one's opinion.
From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.
lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)
- their (third-personal plural possessor)
lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)
- to them
Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".
lor
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: lo1
- Yale: lō
- Cantonese Pinyin: lo1
- Guangdong Romanization: lo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /lɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
lor
lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)
- their (third-personal plural possessor)
lor (ORB, broad)
As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.
Franco-Provençal personal pronouns
singular | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic1 | possessive2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st person | jo | mè | min | ||
2nd person | te | tè | tin | ||
3rd person masculine | il | lo / le | lui | sin | |
3rd person feminine | el | la | lyé | ||
3rd person neuter | o | y | — | ||
3rd person reflexive | — | sè | |||
plural | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic1 | possessive2 |
1st person | nos | noutro | |||
2nd person | vos | voutro | |||
3rd person masculine | ils | los / les | lor | lor | |
3rd person feminine | els | les | lor / lyés | ||
3rd person reflexive | — | sè | |||
1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | 2 Generally preceded by a definite article. |
Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.
lor
- at the time of (an event), at the same time as
- dum (“during, in (a period of time)”)
From Javanese lor (ꦭꦺꦴꦂ), from Old Javanese lor, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of laut.
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- “lor” 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.
From Italian loro and French leur.
lor
- (possessive) their
lor
- Apocopic form of loro
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell][3], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
Bestemmiavano Dio e’ lor parenti,
l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme
di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.- God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
the human race, the place, the time, the seed
of their engendering and of their birth!
- God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
lor
- Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ
- or
lor
lor
In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.
lor
- “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
lor
- to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)
lor
- their (third-person plural possessive)
- French: leur
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).
lor
Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.
lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)
- (also possessive determiner) their
- (less frequently used): său (masculine singular), sa (feminine singular), săi (masculine plural), sale (feminine plural)
lor (dative form of ei, and ele)
- to them
lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | lor | |
Definite accusative | loru | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | lor | lorlar |
Definite accusative | loru | lorları |
Dative | lora | lorlara |
Locative | lorda | lorlarda |
Ablative | lordan | lorlardan |
Genitive | lorun | lorların |
lor (definite form lor wi)