dor
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: door
Etymology 1
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.
Alternative forms
Noun
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
See also
Noun
dor (plural dors)
- (obsolete) a trick, joke, or deception
- 1624 June 6 (licensing date), John Fletcher, “A VVife 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?
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
dor (attributive dorre, comparative dorder, superlative dorste)
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Verb
dor first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative doari or doare, past participle durutã)
Usage notes
Usually used reflexively (e.g. "mi doari"- it hurts/pains (me)), as with the Romanian cognate, which is only conjugated in the 3rd person.
Etymology 2
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.
See also
Azerbaijani
Etymology
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Noun
dor (definite accusative doru, plural dorlar)
Declension
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 |
Possessive forms of dor | ||||||||
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nominative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | dorum | dorlarım | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | dorun | dorların | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | doru | dorları | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuz | dorlarımız | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuz | dorlarınız | ||||||
onların (“their”) | doru or dorları | dorları | ||||||
accusative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | dorumu | dorlarımı | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | dorunu | dorlarını | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | dorunu | dorlarını | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuzu | dorlarımızı | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuzu | dorlarınızı | ||||||
onların (“their”) | dorunu or dorlarını | dorlarını | ||||||
dative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | doruma | dorlarıma | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | doruna | dorlarına | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | doruna | dorlarına | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuza | dorlarımıza | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuza | dorlarınıza | ||||||
onların (“their”) | doruna or dorlarına | dorlarına | ||||||
locative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | dorumda | dorlarımda | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | dorunda | dorlarında | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | dorunda | dorlarında | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuzda | dorlarımızda | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuzda | dorlarınızda | ||||||
onların (“their”) | dorunda or dorlarında | dorlarında | ||||||
ablative | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | dorumdan | dorlarımdan | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | dorundan | dorlarından | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | dorundan | dorlarından | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuzdan | dorlarımızdan | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuzdan | dorlarınızdan | ||||||
onların (“their”) | dorundan or dorlarından | dorlarından | ||||||
genitive | ||||||||
singular | plural | |||||||
mənim (“my”) | dorumun | dorlarımın | ||||||
sənin (“your”) | dorunun | dorlarının | ||||||
onun (“his/her/its”) | dorunun | dorlarının | ||||||
bizim (“our”) | dorumuzun | dorlarımızın | ||||||
sizin (“your”) | dorunuzun | dorlarınızın | ||||||
onların (“their”) | dorunun or dorlarının | dorlarının |
Further reading
- “dor” in Obastan.com.
Breton
Etymology
From Middle Breton dor, from Proto-Brythonic *dor (compare Welsh dôr), from Proto-Celtic *dwār, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr.
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier dort, from Middle High German dort, from Old High German dorot, doret (“there”). Cognate with German dort (“there, yonder”).
Preposition
dor
- (Sette Comuni) through, across, along
- de mèrchar dor de biizen ― the boundary markers along the meadow
References
- “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
Cornish
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-.[1]
Usage notes
(Earth): undergoes irregular mutation after definite article when referring to the Earth: an nor
Mutation
References
- Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 98 i (3)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dorre, from Old Dutch *thurri, from Proto-West Germanic *þurʀī, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔr/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: dor
- Rhymes: -ɔr
Adjective
dor (comparative dorder, superlative dorst)
Inflection
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 | — |
Derived terms
- dorheid
- dorren
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese door, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d̪oːɾ]
References
- “door” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “door” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “dor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “dor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “dor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin
Middle Dutch
Old English
Etymology
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)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doːr/
Declension
Related terms
Old Saxon
Portuguese
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdoʁ/ [ˈdoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈdoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈdoʁ/ [ˈdoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdo.ɾi/
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
- Hyphenation: dor
Derived terms
- dor de burro
- dor de cotovelo
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: dór
Romanian
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dor/
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Noun
dor n (plural doruri)
- wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing; a strong feeling of missing someone or something
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- dor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Salar
Etymology
Archaic in Xunhua because they use vañ, a Chinese borrowing instead.
References
- 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.
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “dor”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, 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], 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
Slovincian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔr/
- Syllabification: dor
References
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “dǻr”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 170
Tolai
Pronoun
dor
- First-person inclusive dual pronoun: you (singular) and I, you (singular) and me
Turkmen
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tōrug (“bay”).[1] Cognate with Turkish doru.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /doːr/
- Hyphenation: dor
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “toruğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 538
- dor at Ene dilim
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔr/