snore

See also: snöre

English

Etymology

From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”).

The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see that entry for more).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /snɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /snɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /sno(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /snoə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Verb

snore (third-person singular simple present snores, present participle snoring, simple past and past participle snored)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], pages 8-9:

     While you here do ſnoaring lie, / Open-ey'd Conſpiracie / His time doth take: / If of Life you keepe a care, / Shake off ſlumber, and beware. / Awake, awake.

   • 1709, Alexander Pope, “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 223:

     The lumpiſh husband ſnoar'd avvay the night, / Till coughs avvak'd him near the morning light.

Synonyms

• saw wood

Derived terms

• snorer
• snoring rail

Translations

breathe during sleep with harsh noises

• Afrikaans: snork
• Ainu: エトㇿキ (etorki)
• Albanian: gërhas (sq)
• Aleut: qungtuxsix
• Arabic: شَخَرَ (šaḵara)

  Egyptian Arabic: شخر (šaḵḵar)

  Moroccan Arabic: شخر (šḵar)

• Armenian: խռմփալ (hy) (xṙmpʻal), խռմփացնել (hy) (xṙmpʻacʻnel), խռռացնել (hy) (xṙṙacʻnel)
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰা (ghürghüra), নাক বজা (nak boza)
• Azerbaijani: xoruldamaq
• Belarusian: храпці́ impf (xrapcí)
• Bengali: নাক ডাকা (bn) (nak ḍaka)
• Bikol Central: maghukragong
• Bulgarian: хъ́ркам impf (hǎ́rkam)
• Burmese: ဟောက် (my) (hauk)
• Catalan: roncar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏓᏆᎳᎩᎠ (daqualagia)
• Chickasaw: lhabanka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打鼾 (daa² hon⁴)

  Hokkien: 鼾 (zh-min-nan)

  Literary Chinese: 鼾 (hān)

  Mandarin: 打鼾 (zh) (dǎhān)

• Coptic: ϧⲉⲣϧⲉⲣ (xerxer)
• Czech: chrápat impf
• Danish: snorke (da)
• Dutch: snurken (nl)
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি পাৰ্ (ghöṅghoṛi par)
• Elfdalian: skråita
• Esperanto: ronki (eo)
• Estonian: norskama
• Faroese: snorka, róta
• Finnish: kuorsata (fi)
• French: ronfler (fr)
• Galician: roncar (gl), roncexar (gl)
• Georgian: ხვრინავს (xvrinavs)
• German: schnarchen (de)
• Greek: ροχαλίζω (el) (rochalízo)

  Ancient: ῥέγκω (rhénkō)

• Greenlandic: qannguivoq
• Haitian Creole: wonfle
• Hebrew: נָחַר (he) (nakhár)
• Hindi: खर्राटा लेना (kharrāṭā lenā)
• Hungarian: horkol (hu)
• Hunsrik: schnorrikse
• Icelandic: hrjóta
• Indonesian: mendengkur (id), berdengkur (id)
• Irish: srann
• Italian: russare (it), ronfare (it)
• Japanese: 鼾をかく (いびきをかく, ibiki o kaku), 鼾を立てる (いびきをたてる, ibiki o tateru)
• Javanese: ngorok
• Kapampangan: malakak
• Kazakh: қорылдау (qoryldau)
• Khmer: ស្រមុក (km) (srɑmok)
• Korean: 코를 골다 (ko-reul golda)
• Kyrgyz: корулдоо (koruldoo)
• Lao: ກົນ (lo) (kon), ນອນກົນ (nǭn kon), ສຽງກົນ (sīang kon)
• Latgalian: kruokt
• Latin: stertō, rhonchō
• Latvian: krākt
• Lithuanian: knarkti
• Luxembourgish: ronken, schnaarchen
• Macedonian: ‘рка impf (‘rka), грчи impf (grči)
• Malay: berdengkur
• Manchu: ᡴᡡᠸᠠᠴᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (kūwacarambi)
• Maori: korowaru, ngongoro, korowaru, pipiha, peru
• Mauritian Creole: ronfle
• Middle English: snoren
• Mongolian: хурхирах (mn) (xurxirax)
• Navajo: ałhą́ą́ʼ
• Norman: ronflier (Jersey), raonfflaïr (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: skuhrrat
• Norwegian: snorke
• Occitan: roncar (oc), ronflar
• Old English: hrūtan
• Persian: خرخر کردن (fa) (xorxor kardan), خرناس کشیدن (fa) (xornâs kešidan), خروپفیدن, خرناسیدن
• Polish: chrapać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: roncar (pt)
• Romanian: sforăi (ro)
• Romansch: sgruflar, runtgir
• Russian: храпе́ть (ru) impf (xrapétʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: srann
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр́кати impf

  Roman: hŕkati (sh) impf

• Seychellois Creole: ronfle
• Sicilian: runfari (scn), runfulijari
• Slovak: chrápať impf
• Slovene: smrčati (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: smorčeć

• Spanish: roncar (es)
• Swedish: snarka (sv)
• Tagalog: humilik
• Tajik: хуррок кашидан (xurrok kašidan), хӯрок кашидан (xürok kašidan)
• Thai: กรน (th) (gron)
• Tibetan: སྔུར་པ་བཏང (sngur pa btang)
• Turkish: horlamak (tr)
• Turkmen: hor çekmek
• Ukrainian: хропі́ти impf (xropíty)
• Urdu: خراٹا لینا (xarāṭā lenā)
• Uzbek: xurrak otmoq (uz), xirillamoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngáy (vi)
• Volapük: snokön, snorön
• Walloon: ronfler (wa), ronfyî (wa)
• Welsh: chwyrnu (cy)
• Yiddish: כראָפּען (khropen)

Noun

snore (plural snores)

1. The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
2. (informal) An extremely boring person or event.

   Synonyms: snoozefest, snore-fest

Derived terms

• snore-fest

Translations

act and noise of snoring

• Albanian: gërhimë (sq) f
• Aleut: qungtux
• Arabic: شَخِير m (šaḵīr)
• Armenian: խռմփոց (hy) (xṙmpʻocʻ), խռմփալը (hy) (xṙmpʻalə)
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰণি (ghürghüroni)
• Azerbaijani: xorultu
• Belarusian: храп m (xrap)
• Bikol Central: hukragong (bcl)
• Bulgarian: хъркане n (hǎrkane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼾聲／鼾声 (zh) (hānshēng)

• Czech: chrápání n
• Dutch: gesnurk (nl) n
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি (ghöṅghoṛi)
• Finnish: kuorsaus (fi)
• French: ronflement (fr) m
• Georgian: ხვრინვა (xvrinva)
• German: Schnarchen n
• Greek: ροχαλητό (el) n (rochalitó), ροχάλισμα (el) n (rochálisma)
• Hebrew: נְחִירָה (he) f (nekhira)
• Hungarian: horkolás (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schnorrikse n
• Ingrian: kortsuta
• Japanese: 鼾 (ja) (いびき, ibiki), 鼾声 (ja) (かんせい, kansei)
• Korean: 코골기 (kogolgi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خرناس (fa) (xornâs), خروپف (fa), خرناس (fa), صدای خروپف, صدای خرناس
• Portuguese: ronco (pt) m
• Romanian: sforăit (ro) n, sforăială (ro) f, sforăitură (ro) f, sforăire (ro) f
• Russian: храп (ru) m (xrap)
• Scottish Gaelic: srann m or f
• Slovak: chrápanie n
• Spanish: ronquido (es) m
• Swahili: mkoromo (sw)
• Swedish: snarkning (sv) c
• Tagalog: hilik (tl), paghilik
• Thai: การกรน (th) (gaan-gron)
• Turkish: horultu (tr), horlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: храп m (xrap)
• Vietnamese: tiếng ngáy
• Volapük: snok, snor

Anagrams

• Ensor, Ernos, Neros, Norse, Roens, Rones, Rosen, neros, noser, oners, renos, rosen, senor, seron, señor

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

snore

1. Alternative form of snoren

Etymology 2

From Old English fnora, from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô.

Alternative forms

• *fnore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɔːr(ə)/

Noun

snore

1. (rare) snorting

Derived terms

• snoren

Descendants

• English: snore
• Scots: snore