ore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ore"

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /oɹ/
• (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):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (horse–hoarse merger); aw, awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

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-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.

Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

Manganese ore (psilomelane)

1. 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.

   Hyponyms: copper ore, iron ore, tin ore

   • 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

• bog iron ore
• bog ore
• copper ore
• feather ore
• gold-copper ore
• horseflesh ore
• iron ore
• kidney ore
• morass-ore
• needle ore
• olive ore
• ore belt
• ore body
• ore-bulk-oil carrier
• ore car
• ore dressing
• orefield
• ore hearth
• ore tenus
• peacock ore
• pea ore
• pottern ore
• potter's ore
• sulfur ore
• sulphur ore
• swamp ore
• tile ore
• tin ore
• wheel ore
• white lead ore

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) (hankʻakʻar)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 礦石 / 矿石 (zh-min-nan) (khòng-chio̍h)

  Mandarin: 礦石 / 矿石 (zh) (kuàngshí)

• 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
• Galician: mineral (gl) m
• Georgian: მადანი (ka) (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
• Marathi: धातुक n (dhātuk)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хүдэр (mn) (xüder)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (küder)

• Northern Sami: málbma
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malm (no) m

  Nynorsk: malm m

• Occitan: mena (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: роуда f (ruda)

• Old East Slavic: руда f (ruda)
• Old English: ora m
• Ottoman Turkish: معدن (maʿden), جوهر (cevher)
• 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)
• Sami:

  Southern Sami: maalme

• 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
• Swahili: mtapo
• 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), רודע f (rude)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ora.

Noun

ore (plural ores)

1. A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.

   Synonym: ora

   • 1956, Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, London, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 295:

     In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.

Etymology 3

A southern variant of ware (“seaweed”).

Noun

ore (uncountable)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.

Alternative forms

• woar (Ireland)

Etymology 4

Possibly originating as a figurative use of Etymology 1, with Leominster's "ore" representing the wealth of the town.

Noun

ore (uncountable)

1. (historical) A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
   • a. 1638 (date written), Ben Jonson, “For the Honour of Wales”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, page 608, column 1:

     But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrid

Usage notes

• Chiefly used in the form "Lemster ore"; Lemster is a shortened pronunciation of Leominster.

Etymology 5

Preposition

ore

1. Obsolete form of over.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature B3, recto:

     When I behold the violet paſt prime, / And ſable curls or ſiluer'd ore with white: […]

Etymology 6

Noun

ore (plural ore)

1. Alternative form of öre

See also

• ore rotundo

Further reading

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• REO, ROE, roe, eor, Reo, Roe, RoE, o'er, reo, OER, EOR

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uə̯ɾə]

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

Albanian

Noun

ore

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of orë

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• oarã

Etymology

From Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

Basque

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ore inan

1. dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

1. child

Galician

Verb

ore

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

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾe/

Pronoun

ore

1. 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

1. our (possessive determiner of ore)

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

See also

Guaraní personal pronouns

	singular	plural
1st person	che	ore (exclusive) ñande (inclusive)
2nd person	nde	peẽ
3rd person	ha'e	ha'ekuéra, hikuái

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. Rōmaji transcription of おれ

Latin

Noun

ōre n

1. 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

1. we (exclusive)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô. The original feminine gender was lost during the Middle Dutch period, shifting instead to neuter, but is still visible in the modern Dutch fossilized expression ter ore komen.

Noun

ôre n or f

1. ear

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːr(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

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)

Noun

ore (plural ores)

1. 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 Middle English)
• ar, are (Northern)

Noun

ore (uncountable)

1. honour, respect (recognition of value)
2. grace, favour (positivity towards someone)::
   1. permission, approval (to engage in a behaviour)
   2. mercy, clemency (remission of punishment)
3. 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

From both Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and Old English ār (“brass”).

Alternative forms

• hure, oer, or, oor, oore, oure, ure

Noun

ore (plural ores)

2. ore (rock that contains metal)

Descendants

• English: ore
• Scots: ure, uir

Etymology 4

From Old English ōra (“shore”).

Alternative forms

• oure, or, oor, nore, noure

Noun

ore (plural ores)

2. edge, shore

References

• “ọ̄r(e, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 5

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 6

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 7

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of your

Etymology 8

Determiner

ore

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

Etymology 9

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

1. 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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈoːrə/

Noun

ōre n

1. ear

Declension

Declension of ōre (weak neuter)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	daȥ	ōre	diu	ōren
genitive	eines	dës	ōren	dër	ōren
dative	eime	dëm	ōren	dën	ōren
accusative	ein	daȥ	ōre	diu	ōren

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)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “ôre”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Low German: Ohr
  • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
  • German Low German: Ohr, Åhr, Ahr, 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

1. A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	ora	oran
accusative	oran	oran
genitive	oran	orena
dative	oran	orum

Derived terms

• īsernōre (“iron mine”)

Related terms

• ōra (“ore”)
• gyldingweċġ (“gold mine”)

Old French

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• or, ores

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

Noun

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

2. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • c. 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)

Olukumi

Etymology

From an Proto-Yoruboid root for "female," compare with Igala óre (“female animal”), Itsekiri ore (“mother”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ō.ɾē/

Noun

ore

1. female

   Synonym: obìnrẹn

   Antonym: akọ (“male”)

Derived terms

• orẹfàn (“cow”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 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

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

Portuguese

Verb

ore

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

Romanian

Noun

ore

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

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

1. third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

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

Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold

Tocharian B

Noun

ore

1. dust, dirt

Yoruba

Òré (Cyperus articulatus)

Òré (Cyperus esculentus)

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• òé (Ondo)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ò.ɾé/

Noun

òré

1. the plants Cyperus articulatus and Cyperus esculentus, commonly used in making straw sleeping mats
2. (by extension) a straw sleeping mat, made from the òré plant

   Synonym: ẹní òré

Descendants

• Edo: òré
  • Urhobo: eré

Etymology 2

Non-standard spelling of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing”), see ire, ure, rere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ōō.ɾē/

Noun

ore

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