chor
See also: Chor, chór, chor., and -chor
English
Etymology
See chore (“steal”).
Pronunciation
- Homophone: chore
Verb
chor (third-person singular simple present chors, present participle chorrin, simple past and past participle chorred)
- (Tyneside) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).
Anagrams
- OCHR, Roch
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese *chor, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoɾ/
Noun
chor f (plural chores)
- (literary) Alternative form of flor
Related terms
- chorima
- chorir
References
- “chor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xɔɾˠ/
Noun
chor
- Lenited form of cor.
Verb
chor
- past analytic of cor
Kalenjin
Verb
chor
- to steal
Derived terms
- chorin
- chorindet
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From Hindi चोर (cor).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃoɾ/
Noun
chor
- thief; robber; fraudster
- Synonym: voler
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xor/
Noun
chor
- Lenited form of cor.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese *chor, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃoʁ/ [ˈʃoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈʃoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʃoʁ/ [ˈʃoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʃoɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃoɾ]
- Hyphenation: chor
Noun
chor f (plural chores)
- (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of flor
Derived terms
- chorume
Romani
Noun
chor m (nominative plural chora)
- Anglicized spelling of ćor
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xɔɾ/
Noun
chor
- Lenited form of cor.
Spanish
Etymology
From English short.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoɾ/ [ˈt͡ʃoɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: chor
Noun
chor m (plural chores or chors)
- hot pants (pantalón corto)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χɔr/
Noun
chor
- Aspirate mutation of cor.
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cor | gor | nghor | chor |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||