snore

See also: snöre

English

Etymology

From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”).

The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see that entry for more).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /snɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /snɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /sno(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /snoə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Verb

snore (third-person singular simple present snores, present participle snoring, simple past and past participle snored)

1. To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 8-9:

     Ariell:
     While you here do ſnoaring lie,
     Open-ey'd Conſpiracie
     His time doth take:
     If of Life you keepe a care,
     Shake off ſlumber, and beware.
     Awake, awake.

Synonyms

• saw wood

Derived terms

• snorer

Translations

breathe during sleep with harsh noises

• Afrikaans: snork
• Ainu: エトㇿキ (etorki)
• Albanian: gërhas (sq)
• Arabic: شَخَرَ‎ (šaḵara)

  Egyptian Arabic: شخر‎ (šaḵḵar)

  Moroccan Arabic: شخر‎ (šḵar)

• Armenian: խռմփալ (hy) (xṙmpʿal), խռմփացնել (hy) (xṙmpʿacʿnel), խռռացնել (hy) (xṙṙacʿnel)
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰা (ghürghüra), নাক বজা (nak boza)
• Azerbaijani: xoruldamaq
• Belarusian: храпці́ impf (xrapcí)
• Bengali: নাক ডাকা (nak ḍaka)
• Bikol Central: maghukragong
• Bulgarian: хъ́ркам impf (hǎ́rkam)
• Burmese: ဟောက် (my) (hauk)
• Catalan: roncar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏓᏆᎳᎩᎠ (daqualagia)
• Chickasaw: lhabanka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打鼾 (daa² hon⁴)

  Literary Chinese: 鼾

  Mandarin: 打鼾 (zh) (dǎhān)

  Min Nan: 鼾 (zh-min-nan)

• Coptic: ϧⲉⲣϧⲉⲣ (xerxer)
• Czech: chrápat impf
• Danish: snorke (da)
• Dutch: snurken (nl)
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি পাৰ্ (ghöṅghoṛi par)
• Elfdalian: skråita
• Esperanto: ronki (eo)
• Estonian: norskama
• Faroese: snorka, róta
• Finnish: kuorsata (fi)
• French: ronfler (fr)
• Galician: roncar (gl), roncexar (gl)
• Georgian: ხვრინავს (xvrinavs)
• German: schnarchen (de)
• Greek: ροχαλίζω (el) (rochalízo)

  Ancient: ῥέγκω (rhénkō)

• Greenlandic: qannguivoq
• Haitian Creole: wonfle
• Hebrew: נָחַר‎ (he) (nakhár)
• Hindi: खर्राटा लेना (kharrāṭā lenā)
• Hungarian: horkol (hu)
• Hunsrik: schnorrikse
• Icelandic: hrjóta
• Indonesian: mendengkur (id), berdengkur (id)
• Irish: srann
• Italian: russare (it), ronfare (it)
• Japanese: 鼾をかく (いびきをかく, ibiki o kaku), 鼾を立てる (いびきをたてる, ibiki o tateru)
• Javanese: ngorok
• Kapampangan: malakak
• Kazakh: қорылдау (qoryldau)
• Khmer: ស្រមុក (km) (srɑmok)
• Korean: 코를 골다 (ko-reul golda)
• Kyrgyz: корулдоо (koruldoo)
• Lao: ກົນ (lo) (kon), ນອນກົນ (nǭn kon), ສຽງກົນ (sīang kon)
• Latgalian: kruokt
• Latin: stertō, rhonchō
• Latvian: krākt
• Lithuanian: knarkti
• Luxembourgish: ronken, schnaarchen
• Macedonian: ‘рка impf (‘rka), грчи impf (grči)
• Malay: berdengkur
• Manchu: ᡴᡡᠸᠠᠴᠠᡵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (kūwacarambi)
• Maori: korowaru, ngongoro, korowaru, pipiha, peru
• Middle English: snoren
• Mongolian: хурхирах (mn) (xurxirax)
• Navajo: ałhą́ą́ʼ
• Norman: ronflier (Jersey), raonfflaïr (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: skuhrrat
• Norwegian: snorke
• Occitan: roncar (oc), ronflar
• Old English: hrūtan
• Persian: خرخر کردن‎ (fa) (xorxor kardan), خرناس کشیدن‎ (fa) (xornâs kešidan), خروپفیدن‎, خرناسیدن‎
• Polish: chrapać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: roncar (pt)
• Romanian: sforăi (ro)
• Romansch: sgruflar, runtgir
• Russian: храпе́ть (ru) impf (xrapétʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: srann
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хр́кати impf

  Roman: hŕkati (sh) impf

• Sicilian: runfari (scn), runfulijari
• Slovak: chrápať impf
• Slovene: smrčati (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: smorčeć

• Spanish: roncar (es)
• Swedish: snarka (sv)
• Tagalog: humilik
• Tajik: хуррок кашидан (xurrok kašidan), хӯрок кашидан (xürok kašidan)
• Thai: กรน (th) (gron)
• Tibetan: སྔུར་པ་བཏང (sngur pa btang)
• Turkish: horlamak (tr)
• Turkmen: hor çekmek
• Ukrainian: хропі́ти impf (xropíty)
• Urdu: خراٹا لینا‎ (xarāṭā lenā)
• Uzbek: xurrak otmoq (uz), xirillamoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngáy (vi)
• Volapük: snokön, snorön
• Walloon: ronfler (wa), ronfyî (wa)
• Welsh: chwyrnu (cy)
• Yiddish: כראָפּען‎ (khropen)

Noun

snore (plural snores)

1. The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
2. (informal) An extremely boring person or event.

   Synonyms: snoozefest, snorefest

Translations

act and noise of snoring

• Albanian: gërhimë (sq) f
• Arabic: شَخِير‎ m (šaḵīr)
• Armenian: խռմփոց (hy) (xṙmpʿocʿ), խռմփալը (hy) (xṙmpʿalə)
• Assamese: ঘোৰঘোৰণি (ghürghüroni)
• Azerbaijani: xorultu
• Belarusian: храп m (xrap)
• Bikol Central: hukragong (bcl)
• Bulgarian: хъркане n (hǎrkane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼾聲 (zh), 鼾声 (zh) (hānshēng)

• Czech: chrápání n
• Dutch: gesnurk (nl) n
• Early Assamese: ঘোঙ্ঘড়ি (ghöṅghoṛi)
• Finnish: kuorsaus (fi)
• French: ronflement (fr) m
• Georgian: ხვრინვა (xvrinva)
• German: Schnarchen n
• Greek: ροχαλητό (el) n (rochalitó), ροχάλισμα (el) n (rochálisma)
• Hebrew: נְחִירָה‎ (he) f (nekhira)
• Hungarian: horkolás
• Hunsrik: Schnorrikse n
• Japanese: 鼾 (ja) (いびき, ibiki), 鼾声 (ja) (かんせい, kansei)
• Korean: 코골기 (kogolgi)
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• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خرناس‎ (fa) (xornâs), خروپف‎ (fa), خرناس‎ (fa), صدای خروپف‎, صدای خرناس‎
• Portuguese: ronco (pt) m
• Romanian: sforăit (ro) n, sforăială (ro) f, sforăitură (ro) f, sforăire (ro) f
• Russian: храп (ru) m (xrap)
• Scottish Gaelic: srann m or f
• Slovak: chrápanie n
• Spanish: ronquido (es) m
• Swahili: mkoromo (sw)
• Swedish: snarkning (sv) c
• Tagalog: hilik (tl), paghilik
• Thai: การกรน (th)
• Turkish: horultu (tr), horlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: храп m (xrap)
• Vietnamese: tiếng ngáy
• Volapük: snok, snor

Anagrams

• Ensor, Ernos, Neros, Norse, Roens, Rones, Rosen, neros, noser, oners, renos, rosen, senor, seron, señor

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

snore

1. Alternative form of snoren

Etymology 2

From Old English fnora, from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô.

Alternative forms

• *fnore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɔːr(ə)/

Noun

snore

1. (rare) snorting

Derived terms

• snoren

Descendants

• English: snore
• Scots: snore