lor

From Hokkien 囉／啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉／啰 (lo1).

• (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA^(key): /lɔː˦/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /lɔ˥/

lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)

1. Used to convey a sense of resignation.

   Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.

   OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.

   • 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.’

2. Asserts that the answer to something is obvious or straightforward.

   You lor. ― It's obviously you then.

   Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.

3. Used to emphasise one's opinion.

   Sorry lor. ― (sarcastic) Oh I'm so sorry!

   Very dirty lor. ― It's so dirty!

   Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)

• win liao lor

• (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, mah, meh, one, sia, what

• Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎
• Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎, volume 34, number 6

• LRO, ORL, orl

• a lor, loru, alor, aloru

From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.

lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)

1. their

lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)

1. to them

Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".

• (a) lui (masculine singular dative- long/stressed form)
• (a) ljei (feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
• lã (masculine/feminine plural dative- short/unstressed form)

lor

1. dirty

lor

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 囉／啰 (particle)

Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.

• IPA^(key): /lor/, /lɔɾ/

lor

1. at the time of (an event), at the same time as

• lora (“then, now”)
• lore (“then, at the time”)

• 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔr]
• Hyphenation: lor

lor

1. (Java) north

• “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

1. (possessive) their

• IPA^(key): /ˈlor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: lór

lor

1. Apocopic form of loro
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd 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!

lor

1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ

• or

• IPA^(key): /loː/

From French or.

lor

1. Gold

From French là-haut.

lor

1. on

   Antonym: anba

• lur

In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.

lor

1. them (dative)
2. them (accusative)

• “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• leur
• lur

From Latin illōrum.

lor

1. to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     la novele lor aporte

     [He] brought the news to them

lor

1. their (third-person plural possessive)
   • c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Et lor dex en ont merciés.

     And they thanked their gods for it.

• French: leur

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).

lor

1. north

   Synonyms: uttara, sĕlatan

• Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦂ (lor, “north”)

Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.

• IPA^(key): /lor/

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lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

1. (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)

1. to them

From Persian لور.

lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)

1. A whey cheese similar to ricotta.

lor (definite form lor wi)

1. saliva

   Synonym: tëflit