ore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ore"

English

Etymology

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-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵‎ (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /ɔɹ/
• (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/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger); aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

Manganese ore (psilomelane)

1. 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.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     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.

Derived terms

• iron ore
• orefield

Translations

rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed

• Albanian: xeheror (sq) m
• Arabic: رِكَاز‎ m (rikāz), خَامَة‎ f (ḵāma)
• Armenian: հանքաքար (hy) (hankʿakʿar)
• Azerbaijani: filiz (az), külçə
• Basque: mea
• Belarusian: руда́ f (rudá)
• Bulgarian: руда (bg) f (ruda)
• Burmese: သတ္တုရိုင်း (my) (sattu.ruing:)
• Catalan: mena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 礦石, 矿石 (kong³ sek⁶)

  Hakka: 礦石, 矿石 (khóng-sa̍k)

  Mandarin: 礦石 (zh), 矿石 (zh) (kuàngshí)

  Min Nan: 礦石 (zh-min-nan), 矿石 (zh-min-nan) (khòng-chio̍h)

• 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
• Georgian: მადანი (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 (ko) (gwangseok)
• 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)
• Maori: tokahuke, tokakonganuku
• Mongolian: хүдэр (mn) (hüder)
• Northern Sami: málbma
• Norwegian: malm (no) m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: роуда f (ruda)

• Old English: ora m
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: руда f

  Roman: ruda (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
• Swedish: malm (sv) c
• Tagalog: dukalin, dulang
• Tajik: маъдан (maʾdan)
• Telugu: ఖనిజము (te) (khanijamu)
• Thai: แร่ (th) (rɛ̂ɛ), สินแร่
• Turkish: maden (tr)
• Turkmen: magdan
• Ukrainian: руда́ f (rudá)
• Uzbek: ruda (uz)
• Vietnamese: quặng (vi)
• Volapük: mün (vo)
• Welsh: mwyn (cy) m
• Yiddish: אַרץ‎ n (arts)

See also

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uə̯ɾə]

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• oarã

Etymology

From Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

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Basque

Noun

ore inan

1. dough

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Borôro

Noun

ore

1. child

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Galician

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of orar

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Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾe/

Pronoun

ore

1. 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

1. our (possessive determiner of ore)

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

See also

Guaraní personal pronouns

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

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Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. Rōmaji transcription of おれ

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Latin

Noun

ōre n

1. ablative singular of ōs

References

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

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique forms of Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō.

Alternative forms

• hore
• are, aurre (Northern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/

Noun

ore (plural ores)

1. oar

Descendants

• English: oar
• Scots: air

References

• “ōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 3

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of your

Etymology 5

Determiner

ore

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 6

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

1. 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

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Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ore n

1. ear

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)

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Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɔːrə/

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Low German: Ohr
  • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
  • German Low German: Or, Ur

    Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

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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

1. A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Declension of ore (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ora	oran
accusative	oran	oran
genitive	oran	orena
dative	oran	orum

Derived terms

• īsernōre (“iron mine”)

Related terms

• ōra (“ore”)
• gyldenweċġ (“gold mine”)

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Old French

Etymology 1

For earlier *aore, from Latin hāc hōrā (“(in) this hour”).

Alternative forms

• or, ores

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

From Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).

Alternative forms

• hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

Noun

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

1. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • circa 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?

Descendants

• English: hour
• French: heure
• Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

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Portuguese

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of orar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar

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Romanian

Noun

ore

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

1. third-person singular present of orati

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Spanish

Verb

ore

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

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Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold

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Tocharian B

Noun

ore

1. dust, dirt

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Yoruba

Etymology 1

Òré (Cyperus articulatus)

Òré (Cyperus esculentus)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ò.ɾé/

Noun

òré

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

Derived terms

• ẹní òré (“mat made from the òré grass”)

Etymology 2

Non-standard spelling of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ōō.ɾē/

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing, favor”)
2. Alternative form of oore (“obligation”)