Thor

See also: thor, -þor, Þórr, and Þór

English

Alternative forms

• Þor (rare)

Etymology

Representing Old Norse Þórr (Swedish Tor); cognate with Old English þunor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɔː/
• IPA^(key): /θɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) The god of thunder.
2. A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

Translations

thunder god

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索爾／索尔 (zh) (Suó'ěr)

• Danish: Thor, Tor (da)
• Dutch: Donar
• Esperanto: Toro
• Estonian: Thor (et)
• Faroese: Tórur m
• Finnish: Thor, Tor (fi)
• Galician: Thor m
• Georgian: თორი (tori)
• German: Thor (de), Donar (de)
• Greek: Θώρ m (Thór)
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Irish: Túr m
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• Japanese: トール m (Tōru)
• Korean: 토르 (Toreu)
• Latvian: Tors
• Lithuanian: Toras
• Marathi: थॉर m (thǒra)
• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Old French: Tur
• Portuguese: Tor (pt) m
• Russian: Тор (ru) (Tor)
• Spanish: Thor m
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c
• Turkish: Tor (tr)
• West Frisian: Tonger

male given name

• Danish: Thor
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Marathi: थॉर m (thǒra)
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• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c

Anagrams

• Roth, hotr, orth-, thro, thro'

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. a male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-.

Related terms

• (male given names): Thorbjørn, Thorkild, Thorvald, Thyge, Toke, Torben, Torsten, Troels, Tue
• (female given names): Thora, Tove

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːɐ̯/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Tor

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, God in Norse mythology.

Related terms

• (male given names): Thorsten, Torben, Torsten

Noun

Thor (plural Thore)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):

     „So wie sich ein Mohr nicht weiß waschen läßt, so läßt sich auch mancher Thor nicht klug machen.“

Derived terms

• Thorheit

Further reading

• “Thor” in Duden online

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Thor

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor.

Related terms

• (surnames) Thorsen

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.