dor

dor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dori'o.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dori'o terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: door

From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.

• dorr

dor (plural dors)

1. Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
2. Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.

Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.

dor (plural dors)

1. (obsolete) A trick, joke, or deception.
   • 1624 June 6 (licensing date), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?

• Ord, ord, rod, Rod, ODR, DRO, ORD, dro, RDO

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dor (attributive dorre, comparative dorder, superlative dorste)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

• doru

From Latin doleō. Compare Romanian durea.

dor first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative doari or doare, past participle durutã)

1. to hurt, ache

Usually used reflexively (e.g. "mi doari"- it hurts/pains (me)), as with the Romanian cognate, which is only conjugated in the 3rd person.

Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos). Compare Romanian dor.

dor

1. wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing, desire
2. love
3. passion
4. pain, suffering

• vreari

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

dor (definite accusative doru, plural dorlar)

1. (nautical) mast

   dorlu qayıq ― a dingy with a mast

   üç dorlu gəmi ― a ship with three masts

2. (radio, electric) tower

• “dor” in Obastan.com.

From Middle Breton dor, from Proto-Brythonic *dor (compare Welsh dôr), from Proto-Celtic *dwār, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr.

dor f (plural dorioù)

1. door

Note: it is the last remnant of nasal mutation in Breton, and becomes "an nor".

• dort

From earlier dort, from Middle High German dort, from Old High German dorot, doret (“there”). Cognate with German dort (“there, yonder”).

dor

1. (Sette Comuni) through, across, along

   de mèrchar dor de biizen ― the boundary markers along the meadow

• “dor” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-.^[1]

dor m (plural dorow)

1. ground, earth
2. Earth

(Earth): undergoes irregular mutation after definite article when referring to the Earth: an nor

• aval dor (“potato”)
• aval dor brewys (“mashed potato”)
• know dor (“peanuts”)

Solar System in Cornish · System howlek (layout · text)
Star	Howl
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mergher	Gwener	Dor	Meurth	Ceres	Yow	Sadorn	Ouran	Nevyon	Plouton	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Loor		—

From Middle Dutch dorre, from Old Dutch *thurri, from Proto-West Germanic *þurʀī, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.

• IPA^(key): /dɔr/

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• Hyphenation: dor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

dor (comparative dorder, superlative dorst)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

Declension of dor
uninflected	dor
inflected	dorre
comparative	dorder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		dor	dorder	het dorst het dorste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	dorre	dordere	dorste
	n. sing.	dor	dorder	dorste
	plural	dorre	dordere	dorste
definite		dorre	dordere	dorste
partitive		dors	dorders	—

• dorheid
• dorren

• Afrikaans: dor
• Negerhollands: dor

• “dor” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• delor, dolor

From Old Galician-Portuguese door, from Latin dolor, dolōrem.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɾ], [ˈdoːɾ]

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain

   Synonym: pena

2. grief

   Synonyms: pena, mágoa

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “door”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “door”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dor”, 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), “dor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “dor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “dor” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

dor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dō

dor

1. alternative form of dōre

Compare dialectal dewr, from Arabic دور. Displaced native *wer which is still used as a prefix.

• IPA^(key): /doːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: dor

dor m (Arabic spelling دۆر)

1. around, about

From Proto-West Germanic *dor.

Cognate with Old Saxon dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂 (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old English duru, German Tür). Indo-European cognates include Greek θυρα (thyra), Latin foris, Lithuanian dùrys, Old Church Slavonic двьрь (dvĭrĭ) (Russian дверь (dverʹ)).

• IPA^(key): /doːr/

dōr n

1. a large door, a gate

Strong a-stem:

• duru

• Middle English: dor, dore
  • English: door

From Proto-West Germanic *dor.

Cognate with Old English dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂 (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old Saxon duru, German Tür).

dor n

1. a gate, a large door

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese door f (“pain”), from Latin dolōrem m, from Old Latin *dolōs, from Proto-Italic *dolōs, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to hew, split”). Compare Galician dor and Spanish dolor.

• Homophone: dou (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: dor

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain (physical or emotional)

• Kabuverdianu: dór

• “dôr” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “dor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 𐴊𐴡𐴌 (dor) — Hanifi Rohingya script

From Bengali [Term?].

dor (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴡𐴌)

1. price

   Synonyms: dam, kimot

Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).^[1] Compare Portuguese dó (“sorrow, compassion”), Spanish duelo (“sorrow, mourning”), French deuil (“bereavement”).

• IPA^(key): /dor/

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dor n (plural doruri)

1. wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing; a strong feeling of missing someone or something

• dori

• durea

Cognate with Turkish tor.

Archaic in Xunhua because they use vañ, a Chinese borrowing instead.

• (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [tʰor]
• (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [tor]

dor

1. (archaic) net

   Synonym: vañ

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “тор”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 430
• Poppe, Nicholas (1953). Remarks on The Salar Language. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 16(3/4), 438–477. [1]
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “dor”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 80
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “dor”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 90
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “dor (only in Xinjiang)”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 278

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *darъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: dor

dor m inan

1. gift

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “dǻr”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 170

dor

1. First-person inclusive dual pronoun: you (singular) and I, you (singular) and me

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tōrug (“bay”).^[1] Cognate with Turkish doru.

• IPA^(key): /doːr/
• Hyphenation: dor

dor (comparative dorrak, superlative iň dor)^[2]

1. (equestrianism) reddish-brown, bay

• IPA^(key): /dɔr/

dor

1. nasal mutation of tor

dor

1. soft mutation of tor