nord

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnɔɾt]

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

nord m (uncountable)

1. north

   Synonym: septentrió

   Antonym: sud

nord (invariable)

1. northern

• nòrdic

compass points: punts cardinals:  ^[edit]

nord-oest nord-occidental	nord septentrional	nord-est nord-oriental
oest occidental		est oriental
sud-oest sud-occidental	sud meridional	sud-est sud-oriental

• “nord”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “nord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔrd/
• Hyphenation: nord

nord m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of nordu

• “nordu, nord” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Old Danish north, from Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• IPA^(key): /noːr/, [noɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

nord c (singular definite norden, not used in plural form)

1. north

• nordøst
• nordvest

nord

1. toward the north, northwards

compass points:  ^[edit]

nordvest	nord	nordøst
vest		øst
sydvest	syd	sydøst

• “nord” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Middle French nord, nort, from Old French nort(h), borrowed from Old English norþ (“north”). The English (rather than Dutch or Norse) origin of the French compass points is evidenced by the vowel in est.

• IPA^(key): /nɔʁ/
  • (southern France) IPA^(key): [n̪ɔʁ̥]
  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [naɔ̯ʁ], [nɑɔ̯ʁ]

• Audio (France):

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nord m (plural nord)

1. north

   Synonym: septentrion

compass points: points cardinaux:  ^[edit]

nord-ouest	nord septentrion	nord-est
ouest couchant ponant occident		est levant orient
sud-ouest	sud midi méridien	sud-est

• nord-africain, Nord-Africain
• nordique

• “nord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rond

nord (uncountable)

1. north

nord (not comparable)

1. north

compass points:  ^[edit]

	nord
west occidente		est oriente levante
	sud

Via Spanish and French, ultimately from Old English norþ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔrd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrd
• Hyphenation: nòrd

nord m (invariable)

1. north

   Synonyms: settentrione, mezzanotte

   Antonym: sud

nord (invariable)

1. northern

compass points (Germanic-origin): punti cardinali:  ^[edit]

nordovest	nord	nordest
ovest		est
sudovest	sud	sudest

• stella polare

• nor (Sark)

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”).

nord m (uncountable)

1. north

From Danish nord, from Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• IPA^(key): /nuːɾ/

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nord

1. north (for / of)

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. north, a compass direction
2. a land area towards the north

   det høye nord - the far north

3. indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries
4. (dialectal, obsolete) upriver (in the mountain valleys of eastern Norway, without considering the actual orientation of the valley)

• (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør, syd

compass points:  ^[edit]

nordvest	nord	nordøst
vest		øst
sørvest	sør	sørøst

• “nord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “nord” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą. Akin to English north.

• IPA^(key): /nuːr/, [nu̞ːr], [nu̞ːɾ], [nu̞ːʁ]
• (thick L) IPA^(key): [nu̞ːɽ]

nord

1. north (for / of)

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. north, a compass direction
2. a land area towards the north

   det høge nord - the far north

3. indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries

• (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør

• “nord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *norþr, akin to Old English norþ, Old Norse norðr.

nord ?

1. north

• Middle High German: nort
  • German: Nord
  • Luxembourgish: Nord

Borrowed from French nord or German Nord, both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *norþr (“north”), the French via Old English.

• IPA^(key): /nord/

nord n (uncountable)

1. north

   Synonym: (archaic or poetic) miazănoapte

compass points (French/Germanic origin): puncte cardinale:  ^[edit]

nord-vest	nord	nord-est
vest		est
sud-vest	sud	sud-est

• “nord”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Borrowed from French nord, from Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-West Germanic *norþr (“north”).

nord m

1. north

• sid

• nordost
• nordvest

• ost
• oriaint
• vest
• sidost
• sidvest

• norr

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

• IPA^(key): /nuːrd/ [nuːɖ]

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nord c

1. north, a compass direction
2. indefinite form singular of Norden = the Nordic countries

nord (not comparable)

1. north

compass points: kompasspunkter:  ^[edit]

nordväst	norr nord	nordost nordöst
väster väst		öster öst ost
sydväst	söder syd	sydost sydöst