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sor

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sor"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Somrai.

Symbol

sor

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

See also

English

Etymology

Clipping of sorority, like frat from fraternity.

Noun

sor (plural sors)

  1. (US, informal) A sorority (student organization).
    • 2004, The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005, page 327:
      “The Greeks have tons of influence on campus,” says one student. “Frats and sors allow for smaller groups of friends, making it easier to have a social identity.”
    • 2011, Brian Washburn, University of Utah 2012:
      If you are not a part of a Frat/Sor, then it seems at though they are non-existent.

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Basque

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s̺or/ [s̺or]
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: sor

Adjective

sor (comparative sorrago, superlative sorren, excessive sorregi)

  1. numb
    Synonym: soraio
  2. discreet, inconspicuous
  3. (dated) deaf
    Synonym: gor

Declension

More information indefinite, singular ...

Derived terms

  • sor eta gor (“totally numb”)
  • sor eta lor (“shocked”)

Further reading

  • “sor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “sor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin soror (nominative form).

Pronunciation

Noun

sor f (plural sors)

  1. (religion) sister, female member of a religious community
  2. (archaic) sister

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

sor (feminine sora, masculine plural sors, feminine plural sores)

  1. (regional) reddish

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

sor m (plural sors)

  1. (Valencia, botany) sorus

Further reading

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Champenois

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old French soir, from Late Latin sēra.

Pronunciation

Noun

sor m (plural sors)

  1. (Troyen) evening

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes
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Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of English sorry.

Pronunciation

Interjection

sor

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Used to express apology over trivial matters, where apology is needed but the use of sorry would be considered too formal.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 對不起 (“sorry”) [map]
More information Variety, Location ...
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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sor/
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: sor

Adverb

sor

  1. (neologism, nonstandard) up, upwards (direction away from the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • malsupren (“down, downwards”)
  • (neologism, nonstandard) sob (“down, downwards”)

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃor]
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  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

sor (plural sorok)

  1. row (in the auditorium of a theater etc.)
    Holonym: nézőtér (“auditorium”)
    Meronyms: szék, ülés, hely (all: “seat”)
  2. row (in a sheet, table, database)
    Coordinate term: oszlop (“column”)
  3. (of text) line
    Holonyms: bekezdés, oldal, fejezet, szöveg
    Meronyms: szó, betű
  4. queue (GB) , line (US) (people or things waiting to be served one after the other)
  5. (mathematics, physics) series
    Synonym: sorozat
  6. a fairly large quantity (of things)
  7. (of events) chain, course, succession
    Synonym: sorozat
  8. someone’s turn (used in several phrases with -n/-on/-en/-ön)
    Synonyms: jön (literally “to come”), következik (both: to be one’s turn, literally “to follow”)
    soron következik ― to come next
    Most rajta a sor, hogy bizonyítson. ― Now it’s his turn to prove himself.
    Mindjárt rákerül a sor. ― Soon it will be his/her turn.
    Szerintem ő van most soron. ― I think it's his/her turn right now.
  9. occurrence, taking place (with the verbs kerít, kerül)
  10. (after a proper name) a type of street or road with buildings on one side only
    Ajtósi Dürer sor ― Ajtósi Dürer Road
  11. situation, status
    Synonym: helyzet
  12. birth, social rank, class (used with adjectives like high or low)
  13. (archaic) fate, lot
    Synonyms: sors, végzet
  14. (poker) straight
  15. (chess) rank
  16. significance, footing (whether things are on a par with each other)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

Descendants

  • → Carpathian Rusyn: шор (šor)
  • → Pannonian Rusyn: шор (šor)

Further reading

  • sor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Istro-Romanian

Alternative forms

  • sorę

Etymology

Inherited from Latin soror (nominative). The plural reflects Latin sorōres. Compare to Daco-Romanian soră.

Pronunciation

Noun

sor f (plural sorâr)

  1. sister

Italian

Etymology

From signore.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔr/, /ˈsor/
  • Rhymes: -ɔr, -or
  • Hyphenation: sòr, sór

Noun

sor m (feminine sora)

  1. (dialectal, chiefly Romanesco) mister, sir (before personal names or professions)

Javanese

Romanization

sor

  1. romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦂ

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sār.

Adjective

sor

  1. alternative form of sore

Noun

sor

  1. alternative form of sore

Adverb

sor

  1. alternative form of sore

Etymology 2

From Old French sor, from Frankish *saur, from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz. Doublet of sere (“dry”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

sor

  2. sorrel (red-brown; used to describe animals)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: sore (obsolete)
References

Noun

sor (plural sowres)

  1. A sorrel horse.
  2. A four-year-old male deer.
Descendants
  • English: sore (obsolete)
References

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • سۆر (sor) — Arabic spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *cuxráh.

Adjective

More information Central Kurdish, Southern Kurdish ...

sor (comparative sortir, superlative herî sor or tewrî sor)

  1. red

See also

Colors in Northern Kurdish · reng (layout · text)
     spî      gewr      reş
             sor; sorê sor              pirteqalî; qehweyî              zer; qîçik
             keskê vekirî              kesk              kevz; keskê tarî
             şînê vekirî; hêşîn              şînê esmanî              şîn
             şîrkî, mor; heş              soravî; binefşî, xemir              pîvazî, pembe

Old French

Preposition

sor

  1. alternative form of seur

Old Javanese

Etymology

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔr/
  • Rhymes: -sɔr
  • Hyphenation: sor

Adjective

sor

  1. lower
  2. inferior
  3. lose
  4. down

Verb

sor

  1. to lose, to be defeated, to be worsted

Derived terms

  • amiṅsorakĕn
  • anorakĕn
  • asor
  • aṅasori
  • kapiṅsor
  • kasor
  • kasoran
  • makasor
  • manor
  • masor
  • paṅasor
  • sinor
  • sinorakĕn
  • sinoran
  • sumorakĕn
  • umiṅsor
  • aṅalap kasor
  • aṅalap sor

Descendants

Further reading

  • "sor" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

Etymology

Back-formation from sarna.

Pronunciation

Noun

sor f

  1. (Kielce) roebuck
    Pán leśnicy złapał w tesie sora. ― The forester caught a roe buck in the forest.

Further reading

  • Władysław Siarkowski (1891), “sor”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 339

Romanian

Etymology 1

Unknown. Probably ultimately from Latin sus, through a Vulgar Latin variant *suris instead of suis, through analogy with other Latin declensions like mus, whence muris, or os, whence oris.

Noun

sor n (plural soruri) (rare)

  1. skin shaved from a pig
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

Noun

sor f (obsolete or dialectal)

  1. alternative form of soră (“sister”)

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan sor, from Latin soror, from Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoɾ/ [ˈsoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: sor

Noun

sor f (plural sores)

  1. (religion) sister, female member of a religious community
  2. (archaic) sister
    Synonym: hermana

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

sor

  1. indefinite plural of so

Anagrams

Zazaki

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *cuxráh.

Adjective

sor

  1. red

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