cora

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.ɾa]

cora f (plural cores)

1. kore

• cor

Unknown. Perhaps from cor,^[1] but this can't explain the open tonic vowel.

Same root as Portuguese 'cora': i.e. to brown or blush bread. To add colour to the loaf.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾa̝/

cora f (plural coras)

1. small fire lit before the oven for maintaining it hot or to brown the bread

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cora”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠə/

From Middle Irish cora (“stone fence; weir”).

cora f (genitive singular cora, nominative plural coraí)

1. weir

Alternative inflected forms:

• genitive singular: coradh, corann
• dative singular: coraidh, corainn
• plural: coradha, coraidheacha, coraíocha

• Cora Droma Rúisc (“Carrick-on-Shannon”)

cora

1. plural of cor (“twist, (fishing) cast, (dancing) reel”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cora (‘stone fence; weir’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cora”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 182
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cora”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

cora

1. romanization of ꦕꦺꦴꦫ

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.ra]

cora f (genitive corae); first declension

1. pupil (of the eye)

First-declension noun.

• wcora (obsolete)

From Proto-Slavic *vьčera. Cognate with Upper Sorbian wčera, Polish wczoraj, Czech včera, Russian вчера́ (včerá), Old Church Slavonic вьчєра (vĭčera).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: co‧ra

cora

1. yesterday

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “cora”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “cora”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

• corah

Borrowed from Sanskrit चौर (caura), चोर (cora).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Hyphenation: co‧ra

cora

1. thief
2. robber

cora

1. thievish
2. treacherous
3. secret

• > Javanese: ꦕꦺꦴꦫ (cora) (inherited)

• "cora" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit चौर (caura), चोर (cora).

cora m

1. thief, robber, bandit

• Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.

• Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ra

cora

1. inflection of corar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish corral.

corá

1. corral

• Stark Campbell, Sara, et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 9

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾa/ [ˈko.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: co‧ra

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cora f (plural coras)

1. (historical) a territorial subdivision in Al-Andalus

From English quarter (American English).

cora f (plural coras)

1. (US, El Salvador) a US currency coin worth 25 cents, a quarter

   Synonyms: (New Mexico) cuara, (Panama) cuarto

   Una botella de agua cuesta dos coras.

   A bottle of water is two quarters.

• “cora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024