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: dhengritës m, 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: ру́да (bg) f (rúda)
• 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／矿石 (zh) (kuàngshí)

  Min Nan: 礦石／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(鑛石) (ko) (gwangseok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: maden (ku)

• 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:

  Cyrillic: хүдэр (mn) (xüder)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (küder)

• Northern Sami: málbma
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malm (no) m

  Nynorsk: malm m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: роуда f (ruda)

• Old East Slavic: руда f (ruda)
• Old English: ora m
• Pashto: معدن‎ m (ma'dan)
• 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: ру́да f

  Roman: rúda (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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uə̯ɾə]

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• oarã

Etymology

From Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

Basque

Noun

ore inan

1. dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

1. child

Galician

Verb

ore

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

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. Rōmaji transcription of おれ

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

Mbyá Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní ore.

Pronoun

ore

1. we (exclusive)

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“oar”), from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō.

Alternative forms

• hore, oore
• are, aurre (Northern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

Noun

ore (plural ores)

1. oar (lever for propelling a boat)

Descendants

• English: oar
• Scots: air

References

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

Etymology 2

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Alternative forms

• oore, or, ȝore
• aore, are, ære (early)
• ar, are (Northern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːr(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

Noun

ore (uncountable)

1. honour, respect (recognition of value)
2. grace, favour (positivity towards someone)::
   1. permission, approval (to engage in a behaviour)
   2. mercy, clemency (remission of punishment)
3. respite, security (safety from harm)

Related terms

• oreles
• oren

References

• “ōr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Originally two distinct nouns:

• Old English ōra, of unknown origin, perhaps connected to ēar (“earth”).
• Old English ār (“brass”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos.

Alternative forms

• hure, oer, or, oor, oore, oure, ure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːr(ə)/, /ˈɔːr(ə)/

Noun

ore (plural ores)

1. ore (rock that contains metal)

Descendants

• English: ore
• Scots: ure, uir

References

• “ọ̄r(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 5

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 6

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of your

Etymology 7

Determiner

ore

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

Etymology 8

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

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

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)

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

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”)

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)

2. 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)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀑𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• ओरे (Devanagari script)
• ওরে (Bengali script)
• ඔරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဩရေ or ဢေႃရေ (Burmese script)
• โอเร (Thai script)
• ᩋᩰᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂອເຣ (Lao script)
• ឲរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄮𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ore

1. locative singular masculine/neuter & vocative singular feminine & accusative plural masculine of ora (“lower”)

Portuguese

Verb

ore

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

Romanian

Noun

ore

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

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

1. third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

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

Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold

Tocharian B

Noun

ore

1. dust, dirt

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”)