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)

1. (Geordie) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).

Anagrams

• OCHR

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-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)

1. (literary) Alternative form of flor

Related terms

• chorima
• chorir

References

• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔɾˠ/

Noun

chor

1. Lenited form of cor.

Verb

chor

1. past analytic of cor

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Kalenjin

Verb

chor

1. to steal

Derived terms

• chorin
• chorindet

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi चोर (cor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃoɾ/

Noun

chor

1. thief; robber; fraudster

• Synonym: voler

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xor/

Noun

chor

1. Lenited form of cor.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-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): /ˈʃoɾ/
• Hyphenation: chor

Noun

chor f (plural chores)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of flor

Derived terms

• chorume

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Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit चोर (cora). Cognate with Hindi चोर (cor).

Noun

chor m (plural chor)

1. thief

Derived terms

• chorel

 

Descendants

• Caló: choro
  • → Spanish: choro
• → Hungarian: csór
• Traveller Norwegian: kjår

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Spanish

Etymology

From English short.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoɾ/

Noun

chor m (plural chores or chors)

1. hot pants (pantalón corto)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɔr/

Noun

chor

1. 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.