dor

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Translingual

Symbol

dor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dori'o.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dori'o terms

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-, *dʰreh₁n- (“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

• dorr

Noun

dor (plural dors)

1. Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
2. Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.

Derived terms

• dorbeetle
• dorbug
• dorfly, dorrfly
• dorhawk
• dumbledore, dumble-dor

Translations

G. sterocorarius

• Czech: chrobák velký
• Dutch: gewone mestkever (nl) m
• French: géotrupe du fumier m
• Irish: priompallán m
• Swedish: tordyvel c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: بوق بوجكی (bok böceği), كستل (küstel)

Etymology 2

Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.

Noun

dor (plural dors)

1. (obsolete) A trick, joke, or deception.
   • 1624 June 6 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, “A Wife 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?

Anagrams

• Ord, ord, rod, Rod, ODR, DRO, ORD, dro, RDO

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

dor (attributive dorre, comparative dorder, superlative dorste)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• doru

Etymology 1

From Latin doleō. Compare Romanian durea.

Verb

dor (third-person singular doari or doare, participle durutã)

1. to hurt, ache

Usage notes

Usually used transitively (mi doari—it hurts/pains (me)), as with the Romanian cognate, which is only conjugated in the third person.

Related terms

• dureari, dureare
• durut

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”). Cognate to Romanian dor.

Noun

dor

1. wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing, desire
2. love
3. passion
4. pain, suffering

See also

• vreari

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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

Noun

dor (definite accusative doru, plural dorlar)

1. (nautical) mast

   dorlu qayıq ― a dingy with a mast

   üç dorlu gəmi ― a ship with three masts

2. radio or electric tower, mast

Declension

Declension of dor

	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

	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.

Noun

dor f (plural dorioù)

1. door

Mutation

Mutation of dor

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	dor	zor	unchanged	tor
plural	dorioù	zorioù	unchanged	torioù

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Note: it is the last remnant of nasal mutation in Breton, and becomes "an nor".

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• dort

Etymology

From earlier dort, from Middle High German dort, from Old High German dorot, doret (“there”). Cognate with German dort (“there, yonder”).

Preposition

dor

1. (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

From Proto-Brythonic *dijar or the like; cognate with Welsh daear and Breton douar. Further etymology is unknown; Morris Jones associates it with Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm, but that suggestion has not been taken up by later scholars. No proposed etymology is given by GPC, Jackson 1953, Schrijver 1995, or Matasović 2009.

Noun

dor m (plural dorow)

1. ground, earth
2. Earth

Usage notes

(Earth): undergoes irregular mutation after definite article when referring to the Earth: an Nor

Derived terms

• aval dor (“potato”)
• dhe'n dor (“down”)
• dor adhves (“fertile ground”)
• dor bras (“mainland”)
• dor hweg (“tilled land”)
• dor jarnek (“cultivated soil”)
• know dor (“peanuts”)
• yn-dann dhor (“underground”)

Mutation

Mutation of dor

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
dor	dhor	unchanged	tor	tor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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:

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• Hyphenation: dor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Adjective

dor (comparative dorder, superlative dorst)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

Declension

Declension of dor
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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dor
• Negerhollands: dor

Further reading

• “dor” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Galician

Alternative forms

• delor, dolor

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese door, from Latin dolōrem (“pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɾ], [ˈdoːɾ]

Noun

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain

   Synonym: pena

2. grief

   Synonyms: pena, mágoa

Related terms

• adoecer
• doente
• doenza
• doer

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “door”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “dor”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “dor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “dor”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Latin

Verb

dor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dō

Middle Dutch

Preposition

dor

1. alternative form of dōre

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dor

1. (Early Middle English, Worcestershire) alternative form of der (“deer”)

Etymology 2

Noun

dor

1. alternative form of dore (“door”)

Etymology 3

Noun

dor

1. alternative form of dore (“buzzing insect”)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare dialectal dewr, from Arabic دور. Displaced native *wer which is still used as a prefix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: dor

Noun

dor m (Arabic spelling دۆر)

1. around, about

Derived terms

• derdor
• doralî
• dorber

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): /dor/
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

dor n

1. a large door, a gate

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	dor	doru
accusative	dor	doru
genitive	dores	dora
dative	dore	dorum

Related terms

• duru

Descendants

• Middle English: dore (conflated with Old English duru)
  • English: door (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: dure, dur, duir
    • Scots: duir, dure (obsolete)
  • Yola: dher

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dor.

Cognate with Old English dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂 (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old Saxon duru, German Tür).

Noun

dor n

1. a gate, a large door

Declension

dor (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	dor	dor
accusative	dor	dor
genitive	dores	dorō
dative	dore	dorun
instrumental	—	—

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese door, from Latin dolōrem (“pain”). Compare Galician dor and Spanish dolor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʁ/ [ˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʁ/ [ˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʁ/ [ˈdoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ɾi/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Homophone: dou (non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: dor

Noun

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain (physical or emotional)

Derived terms

• dor de burro
• dor de cotovelo

Related terms

• doentio
• doer
• dolência
• dolente
• dolorido
• doloroso
• dorido

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: dór

Further reading

• “dor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “dôr” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “dor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• 𐴊𐴡𐴌 (dor) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Bengali [Term?].

Noun

dor (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴡𐴌)

1. price

   Synonyms: dam, kimot

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdor/

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -or

Etymology 1

From Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”). Compare Portuguese dó (“sorrow, compassion”), Spanish duelo (“sorrow, mourning”), French deuil (“bereavement”).

Noun

dor n (plural doruri)

1. wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing; a feeling of missing someone or something

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	dor	dorul	doruri	dorurile
genitive-dative	dor	dorului	doruri	dorurilor
vocative	dorule		dorurilor

Derived terms

• dori
• dornic
• doruleț
• îi fi dor

Related terms

• durea

Etymology 2

Verb

dor

1. third-person plural indicative present of durea (“to hurt”)

Further reading

• “dor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Salar

Etymology

Cognate to Azerbaijani and Turkish tor.

Archaic in Xunhua because they use vañ, a Chinese borrowing instead.

Pronunciation

• (Ili, Xinjiang; Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /tor/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /tʰor/

Noun

dor (3rd person possessive dorı, plural dorlar)

1. (archaic) net

   Synonym: vañ

Declension

Declension of dor

	singular	plural
nominative	dor	dorlar
genitive	dorniği	dorlarniği
dative	dora	dorlara
definite accusative	dornı	dorlarnı
locative	dorda	dorlarda
ablative	dordan	dorlardan
instrumental	dorla	dorlarla
pronominal	dorğı	dorlarğı
indefinite article	dor-or	dorlar-or
definite article	dorcük	dorlarcük

Possessive declension of dor

	nominative
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorım	dorımlar
siniği ("your")	dorıñ	dorıñlar
aniği ("their")	dorı	dorılar
piserniği ("our")	dorımız	dorımızlar
selerniği ("your")	dorıñız	dorıñızlar
ularniği ("their")	dorı	dorılar
	accusative
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorımnı	dorımlarnı
siniği ("your")	dorıñnı	dorıñlarnı
aniği ("their")	dorını	dorılarnı
piserniği ("our")	dorımıznı	dorımızlarnı
selerniği ("your")	dorıñıznı	dorıñızlarnı
ularniği ("their")	dorını	dorılarnı
	dative
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorıma	dorımlara
siniği ("your")	dorıña	dorıñlara
aniği ("their")	dorığa	dorılara
piserniği ("our")	dorımıza	dorımızlara
selerniği ("your")	dorıñıza	dorıñızlara
ularniği ("their")	dorığa	dorılara
	locative
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorımda	dorımlarda
siniği ("your")	dorıñda	dorıñlarda
aniği ("their")	dorıda	dorılarda
piserniği ("our")	dorımızda	dorımızlarda
selerniği ("your")	dorıñızda	dorıñızlarda
ularniği ("their")	dorıda	dorılarda
	ablative
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorımdan	dorımlardan
siniği ("your")	dorıñdan	dorıñlardan
aniği ("their")	dorıdan	dorılardan
piserniği ("our")	dorımızdan	dorımızlardan
selerniği ("your")	dorıñızdan	dorıñızlardan
ularniği ("their")	dorıdan	dorılardan
	instrumental
	singular	plural
miniği ("my")	dorımla	dorımlarla
siniği ("your")	dorıñla	dorıñlarla
aniği ("their")	dorıla	dorılarla
piserniği ("our")	dorımızla	dorımızlarla
selerniği ("your")	dorıñızla	dorıñızlarla
ularniği ("their")	dorıla	dorılarla

Derived terms

• dor qoyğusı

References

• Potanin, G.N. (1893), “тор”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия [Tangutsko-Tibetskaja okraina Kitaja i Centralʹnaja Mongolija] (in Russian), page 430
• Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477. [1]
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1992), “dor”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都 [Chéngdū]: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 45
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “dor”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[2], 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 [Sā-Wéi-Hàn cídiǎn, Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 90
• 马伟 [Ma Wei] (2016), “dor”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 [Qīnghǎi, Qinghai]: 青海师范大学 [Qinghai Normal University], unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page 278

Slovincian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *dóh₃r̥

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *déh₃rom

Proto-Balto-Slavic *dōˀra

Proto-Slavic *dȃrъ

Slovincian dor

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dȃrъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: dor

Noun

dor m inan

1. gift

References

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “dǻr”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 170

Tolai

Pronoun

dor

1. First-person inclusive dual pronoun: you (singular) and I, you (singular) and me

Declension

Tolai personal pronouns

	singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person exclusive	iau	amir mir	amital mital	avet ave1
1st person inclusive	-	dor	datal	dat da1
2nd person	u	amur mur	amutal mutal	avat ava1
3rd person	ia i	dir di	dital	diat dia1

¹⁾ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	dor
Cyrillic	дор
Arabic	دور

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tōrug (“bay”). Cognate with Turkish doru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doːr/
• Hyphenation: dor

Adjective

dor (comparative dorrak, superlative iň dor)

1. (equestrianism) reddish-brown, bay

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔr/

Noun

dor

1. nasal mutation of tor

Verb

dor

1. soft mutation of tor

Mutation

Mutated forms of tor

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tor	dor	nhor	thor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.