ore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ore"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Orejón.

Symbol

ore

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Orejón.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

ore

Wikipedia

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): (file)
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)

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
- 1846, unspecified, METALS, OXIDES, EARTHS AND ALKALIES‎^[1]:
  They generally occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are called ores.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:
  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.
- 2024 February 4, Sergey Panashchuk, Jannik Läkamp, Rebecca Jayne Husselbee, “On frontline in Ukrainian town making ‘final stand’ against Putin where bodies lie everywhere & shelling never stops”, in The Sun‎^[3], archived from the original on 7 February 2024:
  Stepnohirsk grew into a town from the village of Sukhoivanivka in the 1980s after vast deposits of manganese ore nearby were discovered.

Derived terms

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)
Māori: tokahuke, tokakonganuku
Marathi: धातुक n (dhātuk)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүдэр (mn) (xüder)

Mongolian script: ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (küder)
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
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:
Northern Sami: málbma

Southern Sami: maalme
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ру́да f

Latin: 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 (ma'dan)
Telugu: ఖనిజము (te) (khanijamu)
Thai: แร่ (th) (rɛ̂ɛ), สินแร่ (sǐn-rɛ̂ɛ)
Turkish: maden (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: معدن (maʿden), جوهر (cevher)
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.^[1]

Noun

ore (plural ores)

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”).^[2]

Noun

ore (uncountable)

(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.^[3]

Noun

ore (uncountable)

(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

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)

Alternative form of öre.

References

^ “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
^ “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
^ “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [uə̯ɾə]

Noun

ore

plural of oor

Albanian

Noun

ore

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)

a time, instance

Basque

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

ore inan

dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

child

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin aura (“breeze”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔʁ/
Homophones: hors, or, ors, ores

Noun

ore f (plural ores)

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Galician

Verb

ore

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore f

plural of ora

Anagrams

-erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

Japanese

Romanization

ore

Rōmaji transcription of おれ

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.rɛ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.re]

Noun

ōre

ablative singular of ōs and ōris

References

“ore”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Mbya Guarani

Etymology

Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani ore.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oˈre/, [ɔˈɾɛ]
Rhymes: -e
Hyphenation: o‧re

Pronoun

ore

we (exclusive)

References

Robert A. Dooley (August 2016), “ore”, in Léxico guarani, dialeto mbyá: guarani-português (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 136

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

ôre n or f

ear

Inflection

Weak neuter noun
	singular	plural
nominative	ôre	ôren
accusative	ôre	ôren
genitive	ôren	ôren
dative	ôre	ôren

Weak feminine noun
	singular	plural
nominative	ôre	ôren
accusative	ôre	ôren
genitive	ôre, ôren	ôren
dative	ôre, ôren	ôren

Descendants

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

Middle English

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)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore (plural ores)

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore (uncountable)

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoːr(ə)/
IPA^(key): /yːr/ (Northern)

Noun

ore (plural ores)

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoːr(ə)/
IPA^(key): /yːr/ (Northern)

Noun

ore (plural ores)

edge, shore

References

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

Etymology 5

Noun

ore

alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 6

Determiner

ore

alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 7

Determiner

ore

alternative form of your

Etymology 8

Determiner

ore

(chiefly Early Middle English and West Midland) alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 9

Noun

ore

alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

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

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

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

A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ore	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

now

Descendants

Middle French: ore
- French: or

Etymology 2

Noun

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

alternative form of houre (“hour”)
- 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?

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

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

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

Paraguayan Guarani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oˈɾe/

Pronoun

ore

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

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

Portuguese

Verb

ore

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

Romanian

Noun

ore

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

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

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

Tarantino

Noun

ore

gold

Tocharian B

Noun

ore

dust, dirt

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

òé (Ondo)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ò.ɾé/

Noun

òré

the plants Cyperus articulatus and Cyperus esculentus, commonly used in making straw sleeping mats
(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

alternative form of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing, favor”)
alternative form of oore (“obligation”)

[1] “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[2] “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[3] “ore”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[1]

[2]

[3]

	Singular	Plural
First person	xee	nhande (kuery) (inclusive)
First person	xee	ore (kuery) (exclusive)
Second person	ndee	peẽ (kuery) / pende (kuery)
Third person	ha'e	ha'e kuery

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

Translingual

Etymology

Symbol

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

Alternative forms

Etymology 4

Noun

Usage notes

Etymology 5

Preposition

Etymology 6

Noun

See also

References

Further reading

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

Albanian

Noun

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Basque

Pronunciation

Noun

Borôro

Noun

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Galician

Verb

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Mbya Guarani

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

See also

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun