Thor

See also: thor, Tor, -þor, Þórr, and Þór

English

Alternative forms

• Þor (rare)

Etymology

Representing Old Norse Þórr. Cognate with Old English Þunor, Swedish Tor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɔː/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
2. A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

Derived terms

• thorate
• thorian
• thoriate
• thoric
• thorite
• thorium
• thoron
• thorotrast

 

Translations

thunder god

• Bengali: থর (thôr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索爾 (zh) (Suó'ěr)

• Danish: Thor, Tor (da)
• Dutch: Donar
• Esperanto: Toro
• Estonian: Thor (et)
• Faroese: Tórur m
• Finnish: Thor, Tor (fi)
• French: Thor (fr) m

  Old French: Tur

• Galician: Thor m
• Georgian: თორი (tori)
• German: Thor (de), Donar (de)
• Greek: Θώρ m (Thór)
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Irish: Túr m
• Japanese: トール m (Tōru)
• Korean: 토르 (Toreu)
• Latin: Iuppiter (la) m, Thōrus m (Medieval)
• Latvian: Tors
• Lithuanian: Toras
• Marathi: थॉर m (thŏr)
• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Old English: Þunor m
• Portuguese: Tor (pt) m
• Russian: Тор (ru) (Tor)
• Spanish: Thor m
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c
• Turkish: Tor (tr)
• West Frisian: Tonger

male given name

• Danish: Thor
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Marathi: थॉर m (thŏr)
• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c

Anagrams

• Roth, hotr, orth-, thro, thro'

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. a male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-

Related terms

• (male given names): Thorbjørn, Thorkild, Thorvald, Thyge, Toke, Torben, Torsten, Troels, Tue
• (female given names): Thora, Tove

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [toːɐ̯], [tɔɐ̯]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Tor

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar, itself a learned borrowing from Old High German.

Proper noun

Thor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Thors)

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, a hammer-wielding god in Norse mythology

Related terms

• (male given names): Thorsten, Torben, Torsten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Thor n (strong, genitive Thors, plural Thore)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor (gate) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

Declension

Declension of Thor [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Thor	die	Thore
genitive	eines	des	Thors	der	Thore
dative	einem	dem	Thor	den	Thoren
accusative	ein	das	Thor	die	Thore

Noun

Thor m (weak, genitive Thoren, plural Thoren)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor (fool) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):

     „So wie sich ein Mohr nicht weiß waschen läßt, so läßt sich auch mancher Thor nicht klug machen.“

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Declension

Declension of Thor [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Thor	die	Thoren
genitive	eines	des	Thoren	der	Thoren
dative	einem	dem	Thoren	den	Thoren
accusative	einen	den	Thoren	die	Thoren

Derived terms

• Thorheit

Further reading

• “Thor” in Duden online

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Icelandic

Proper noun

Thor m

1. a male given name

Declension

declension of Thor

m-s1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Thor
accusative	Thor
dative	Thor
genitive	Thors

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Thor

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor

Related terms

• (surnames) Thorsen

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Thor m

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor

Related terms

• (surnames) Thorsen

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.