Nora

See also: nora, norã, noră, nøra, and Nóra

English

Nora.

Alternative forms

• Norah

Etymology

Short form of Eleanor or, rarely, of Honora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name.

Derived terms

• bloody Nora
• flaming Nora
• flipping Nora

Anagrams

• Arno, Aron, NRAO, Oran, Rona, roan, rona

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnora]

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Nora

Declension

Declension of Nora (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Nora	Nory
genitive	Nory	Nor
dative	Noře	Norám
accusative	Noru	Nory
vocative	Noro	Nory
locative	Noře	Norách
instrumental	Norou	Norami

Danish

Etymology

Short form of Eleonora.

Proper noun

Nora

1. a female given name

Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of Eleonora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: No‧ra

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Noor
• Noortje

Faroese

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Nora: Noruson
• daughter of Nora: Norudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Nora
Accusative	Noru
Dative	Noru
Genitive	Noru

German

Etymology

Short form of Eleonora / Eleonore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoːʁa]

• Audio (Austria)

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• Hyphenation: No‧ra

Proper noun

Nora

1. a female given name

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1792. Short form of Eleonora.

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Leonora

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Nora was the only given name of 853 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Nore

Etymology

Feminine form of the Old Norse given name Nóri, Nórr. Also a short form of Eleonora. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Nóra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²nuːra/
• Homophone: nordan

Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Nore

References

• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 11 949 females with the given name Nora living in Norway on January 1st 2022, with the frequency peak in the 2000s and 2010s. Accessed on 14th December, 2022.

Romanian

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Nora f

1. a female given name

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔra/

Proper noun

Nora f (genitive singular Nory, nominative plural Nory, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Nora

	singular	plural
nominative	Nora	Nory
genitive	Nory	Nôr
dative	Nore	Norám
accusative	Noru	Nory
locative	Nore	Norách
instrumental	Norou	Norami

Further reading

• “Nora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2023

Swedish

Proper noun

Nora c (genitive Noras)

1. a female given name, short form of Eleonora
2. A town in Västmanland, in central Sweden

Anagrams

• -orna, Aron, anor