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lor

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English

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Etymology

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From Hokkien 囉 / 啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉 / 啰 (lo1).

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Particle

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lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)

  1. Tagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or inevitability.
    Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.
    OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.
    Bo pian lor. ― We don’t have a choice.
    • 2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:
      [B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’
    • 2020 December 1, Eve Lock, quoting Marcus, “Many Of Us Will Save For A Wedding, But Not Retirement”, in ricemedia.co‎[1], archived from the original on 8 August 2024:
      We had no income, so just eat at Koufu or Kopitiam lor.
    • 2023 January 3, Hykel Quek, quoting Marcus, “3 Ways To Respond to Authority, According to a Fierce (but Resigned) Hougang Uncle”, in ricemedia.co‎[2], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
      Within a minute, Hougang uncle moves from denial, anger, and bargaining to “ok lor I’ll just remove them”—a quintessential Singaporean pattern of resignation.
  2. Used to suggest that there is an obvious answer or straightforward solution to something.
    You lor, or else still got who? ― It’s obviously you then.
    Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.
    Take a cab lor, easier this way. ― Just take a cab, it’s easier this way.
    • 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene viii, page 41:
      young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this?
      young father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.
    • 2022 July 21, Sophie Chew, quoting Visakan Veerasamy, “Afraid of ‘Saying the Wrong Thing’ About Racism? Speak Up Anyway.”, in ricemedia.co‎[3], archived from the original on 19 July 2024:
      I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.
  3. Suggests that the reply given is the obvious or expected one.
    At my house lor. ― At my house, where else?
    • 2018 September 17, Pan Jie, “Why Do We Greet Each Other By Asking, ‘Have You Eaten?’”, in ricemedia.co‎[4], archived from the original on 2 October 2024:
      It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes. “Relatives lor” is the top reply, and “Small-talk with taxi drivers” emerged as a runner-up because many feel compelled to make conversation after the initial “PIE or CTE?” decision.
    • 2024 February 6, Carrie Tan, “Advancing Mental Health”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 95:
      As a facilitator, I often ask the participants: how are you feeling now? And often, the replies I get are: "Okay lor", "Like that lor".
  4. Used to reinforce an opinion, sometimes in a sarcastic manner.
    Sorry lor. ― (sarcastic) Oh I’m so sorry! (begrudgingly) OK! I'm sorry!
    Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)
    • 2017 November 10, “‘Sorry ... what do you expect?’ says former top policeman on trial for Occupy assault”, in South China Morning Post‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022:
      A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton on instinct.

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(etymologically unrelated)

References

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  • Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎[6]
  • Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎[7], volume 34, number 6

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.

Pronoun

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lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)

  1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

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lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)

  1. to them

Usage notes

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Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".

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  • (a) lui (masculine singular dative- long/stressed form)
  • (a) ljei (feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
  • lã (masculine/feminine plural dative- short/unstressed form)

Breton

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Adjective

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lor

  1. dirty

Chinese

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Particle

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lor

  1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 囉 / 啰 (particle)

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin illōrum.

Determiner

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lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)

  1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

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Franco-Provençal possessive determiners
possessee
singular plural
m f m f
possessor singular 1st mon ma mos mes
2nd ton ta tos tes
3rd son sa sos ses
plural 1st noutron noutra noutros noutres
2nd voutron voutra voutros voutres
3rd lor lors

Pronoun

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lor (ORB, broad)

  1. them (third-person plural dative or tonic)
  2. theirs (third-person plural possessor)

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As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.

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Franco-Provençal personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative tonic1 possessive2
singular 1st person jo mè min
2nd person te tè tin
3rd person masculine il lo / le lui sin
feminine el la lyé
neuter o y —
reflexive — sè
plural 1st person nos noutro
2nd person vos voutro
3rd person masculine ils los / les lor lor
feminine els les lor / lyés
reflexive — sè

1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.   2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

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  • leur in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • lor in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.

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Preposition

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lor

  1. at the time of (an event), at the same time as

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  • lora (“then, now”)
  • lore (“then, at the time”)

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  • dum (“during, in (a period of time)”)

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Javanese lor (ꦭꦺꦴꦂ), from Old Javanese lor, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of laut.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɔr]
  • Hyphenation: lor

Noun

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lor

  1. (Java) north

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Interlingua

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Etymology

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From Italian loro and French leur.

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lor

  1. (possessive) their

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlor/
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: lór

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lor

  1. Apocopic form of loro
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[8], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[9], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Bestemmiavano Dio e’ lor parenti,
      l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme
      di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.
      God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
      the human race, the place, the time, the seed
      of their engendering and of their birth!

Javanese

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Romanization

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lor

  1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ

Mauritian Creole

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Alternative forms

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  • or

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Etymology 1

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From French or.

Noun

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lor

  1. Gold

Etymology 2

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From French là-haut.

Preposition

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lor

  1. on
    Antonym: anba

Old Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.

Pronoun

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lor

  1. them (dative)
  2. them (accusative)

References

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  • “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old English

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Noun

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lor n

  1. loss, destruction

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative lor —
accusative lor —
genitive lores —
dative lore —

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  • Middle English: lore

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin illōrum.

Pronoun

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lor

  1. to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)

Determiner

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lor

  1. their (third-person plural possessive)

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Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).

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lor

  1. north
    Synonyms: uttara, sĕlatan

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.

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  • IPA(key): /lor/
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

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lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

  1. (also possessive determiner) their

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  • (less frequently used): său (masculine singular), sa (feminine singular), săi (masculine plural), sale (feminine plural)

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lor (dative form of ei, and ele)

  1. to them

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Turkish

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Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia tr

Etymology

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From Persian لور.

Noun

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lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)

  1. A whey cheese similar to ricotta.

Declension

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Declension of lor
singular plural
nominative lor lorlar
definite accusative loru lorları
dative lora lorlara
locative lorda lorlarda
ablative lordan lorlardan
genitive lorun lorların

Wolof

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Noun

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lor (definite form lor wi)

  1. saliva
    Synonym: tëflit
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