ore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ore"

English

Etymology

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵‎ (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Pronunciation

(General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /ɔɹ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔː/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōr, IPA^(key): /o(ː)ɹ/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /oə/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Homophones: oar, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger); aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

Manganese ore (psilomelane)

Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
  Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

Derived terms

iron ore
orefield

Translations

rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed

Albanian: dhengritës m, xeheror (sq) m
Arabic: رِكَاز‎ m (rikāz), خَامَة‎ f (ḵāma)
Armenian: հանքաքար (hy) (hankʿakʿar)
Azerbaijani: filiz (az), külçə
Basque: mea
Belarusian: руда́ f (rudá)
Bulgarian: ру́да (bg) f (rúda)
Burmese: သတ္တုရိုင်း (my) (sattu.ruing:)
Catalan: mena (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 礦石, 矿石 (kong³ sek⁶)
Hakka: 礦石, 矿石 (khóng-sa̍k)
Mandarin: 礦石／矿石 (zh) (kuàngshí)
Min Nan: 礦石 (zh-min-nan), 矿石 (zh-min-nan) (khòng-chio̍h)
Czech: ruda (cs) f
Danish: malm (da) c
Dutch: erts (nl) n
Elfdalian: mom m, malm
Esperanto: erco (eo)
Estonian: maak (et)
Faroese: málmur m
Finnish: malmi (fi)
French: minerai (fr) m
Georgian: მადანი (madani)
German: Erz (de) n
Alemannic German: Ärzt
Greek: μετάλλευμα (el) n (metállevma)
Greenlandic: saviminissaq
Hebrew: עַפְרָה‎ (he) f (afrá)
Hindi: अयस्क m (ayask)
Hungarian: érc (hu)
Icelandic: málmgrýti (is)
Ido: erco (io)
Indonesian: bijih (id)
Irish: mianach m
Italian: minerale (it) m
Japanese: 鉱石 (ja) (こうせき, kōseki)
Kazakh: кентас (kentas)
Khmer: រ៉ែ (rae)
Korean: 광석(鑛石) (ko) (gwangseok)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: maden (ku)
Kyrgyz: кен таш (ken taş)
Lao: ສິນແຮ່ (sin hǣ), ແຮ່ (hǣ)
Latgalian: ruda f
Latvian: rūda (lv) f
Lithuanian: rūda f
Luxembourgish: Äerz n
Macedonian: руда f (ruda)
Malay: bijih
Malayalam: അയിര് (ml) (ayirŭ)
Manchu: ᠨᡝᠮᡠ (nemu)
Maori: tokahuke, tokakonganuku
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүдэр (mn) (xüder)
Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (küder)
Northern Sami: málbma
Norwegian:
Bokmål: malm (no) m
Nynorsk: malm m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: роуда f (ruda)
Old East Slavic: руда f (ruda)
Old English: ora m
Pashto: معدن‎ m (ma'dan)
Persian: معدن‎ (fa) (ma'dan), سنگ معدن‎ (sang-e ma'dan)
Polish: ruda (pl) f
Portuguese: minério (pt) m
Romanian: minereu (ro) n
Romansch: mineral m
Russian: руда́ (ru) f (rudá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ру́да f
Roman: rúda (sh) f
Slovak: ruda (sk) f
Slovene: ruda (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: ruda f
Upper Sorbian: ruda f
Spanish: mena (es) f, mineral (es) m
Swedish: malm (sv) c
Tagalog: dukalin, dulang
Tajik: маъдан (maʾdan)
Telugu: ఖనిజము (te) (khanijamu)
Thai: แร่ (th) (rɛ̂ɛ), สินแร่
Turkish: maden (tr)
Turkmen: magdan
Ukrainian: руда́ f (rudá)
Uzbek: ruda (uz)
Vietnamese: quặng (vi)
Volapük: mün (vo)
Welsh: mwyn (cy) m
Yiddish: אַרץ‎ n (arts)

Anagrams

EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [uə̯ɾə]

Noun

ore

plural of oor

Aromanian

Alternative forms

oarã

Etymology

From Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

a time, instance

Basque

Noun

ore inan

dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

child

Galician

Verb

ore

first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
third-person singular present subjunctive of orar

Guaraní

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oˈɾe/

Pronoun

ore

we (exclusive)
Ore roha'ã. ― We (excluding the listener, we and not you) try.
Ñande jaháta okápe ha ore ropytáta ko yvyra pýpe. ― We (all, everyone) will go outside and we (not everyone, just me and some other people) will stay by this tree.

Determiner

ore

our (possessive determiner of ore)
Kóva ore mbo'ehao. ― This is our (and not your) school.

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈo.re/
Rhymes: -ore
Hyphenation: ó‧re

Noun

ore f

plural of ora

Anagrams

-erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

Japanese

Romanization

ore

Rōmaji transcription of おれ

Latin

Noun

ōre n

ablative singular of ōs

References

“ore”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Mbyá Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní ore.

Pronoun

ore

we (exclusive)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ôre n

ear

Descendants

Dutch: oor
- Afrikaans: oor
- Jersey Dutch: ôr
- Negerhollands: oor, hoor, ho
Limburgish: oear

Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“oar”), from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō.

Alternative forms

hore, oore
are, aurre (Northern)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

Noun

ore (plural ores)

oar (lever for propelling a boat)

Descendants

English: oar
Scots: air

References

“ōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Alternative forms

oore, or, ȝore
aore, are, ære (early)
ar, are (Northern)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
(early) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːr(ə)/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

Noun

ore (uncountable)

honour, respect (recognition of value)
grace, favour (positivity towards someone)::
1. permission, approval (to engage in a behaviour)
2. mercy, clemency (remission of punishment)
respite, security (safety from harm)

Related terms

oreles
oren

References

“ōr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Originally two distinct nouns:

Old English ōra, of unknown origin, perhaps connected to ēar (“earth”).
Old English ār (“brass”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos.

Alternative forms

hure, oer, or, oor, oore, oure, ure

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoːr(ə)/, /ˈɔːr(ə)/

Noun

ore (plural ores)

ore (rock that contains metal)

Descendants

English: ore
Scots: ure, uir

References

“ọ̄r(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

ore

Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Determiner

ore

Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Determiner

ore

Alternative form of your

Determiner

ore

(chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Noun

ore

Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

now
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 4, line 2:
  des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore
  of things we will not speak of now

Descendants

French: or

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ore n

ear

Descendants

Alemannic German: Oor
Bavarian: Oar
Central Franconian: Uhr, Ohr
- Hunsrik: Oher
- Luxembourgish: Ouer
German: Ohr
Rhine Franconian:
Pennsylvania German: Ohr
Vilamovian: ür
Yiddish: אויער‎ (oyer)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Pronunciation

Stem vowel: ô²
- (originally) IPA^(key): /ɔːrə/

Noun

ôre n

ear

Descendants

Low German: Ohr
- Dutch Low Saxon: oor
- German Low German: Or, Ur
  Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

Old English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈo.re/

Noun

ore f

A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Declension of ore (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ora	oran
accusative	oran	oran
genitive	oran	orena
dative	oran	orum

Derived terms

īsernōre (“iron mine”)

Related terms

ōra (“ore”)
gyldenweċġ (“gold mine”)

Old French

Etymology 1

For earlier *aore, from Latin hāc hōrā (“(in) this hour”).

Alternative forms

or, ores

Adverb

ore

now

Descendants

French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

From Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).

Alternative forms

hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

Noun

ore f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)

hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
  quel haste avez,
  Qui a tel ore vos levez?
  What haste do you have
  That wakes up at this time of day?

Descendants

English: hour
French: heure
Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

Pali

Alternative forms

𑀑𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
ओरे (Devanagari script)
ওরে (Bengali script)
ඔරෙ (Sinhalese script)
ဩရေ or ဢေႃရေ (Burmese script)
โอเร (Thai script)
ᩋᩰᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
ໂອເຣ (Lao script)
ឲរេ (Khmer script)
𑄃𑄮𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ore

locative singular masculine/neuter & vocative singular feminine & accusative plural masculine of ora (“lower”)

Portuguese

Verb

ore

inflection of orar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

ore

inflection of oră:
1. plural
2. genitive/dative singular

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

inflection of orar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Tarantino

Noun

ore

gold

Tocharian B

Noun

ore

dust, dirt

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Òré (Cyperus articulatus)

Òré (Cyperus esculentus)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ò.ɾé/

Noun

òré

the plants Cyperus articulatus and Cyperus esculentus, commonly used in making straw sleeping mats

Derived terms

ẹní òré (“mat made from the òré grass”)

Etymology 2

Non-standard spelling of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ōō.ɾē/

Noun

ore

Alternative form of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing, favor”)
Alternative form of oore (“obligation”)

ore

English

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

Aromanian

Alternative forms

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Noun

Basque

Noun

Borôro

Noun

Galician

Verb

Guaraní

Pronunciation

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Italian

Pronunciation

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Japanese

Romanization

Latin

Noun

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Mbyá Guaraní

Etymology

Pronoun

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

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Noun

Related terms

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Etymology 3

Alternative forms

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Determiner

Noun

Middle French

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Adverb

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Middle High German

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Middle Low German

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