pour

English Online Dictionary. What means pour‎? What does pour mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /pɔː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /poɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poə/
• (obsolete) enPR: pour, pouər, IPA^(key): /paʊɹ/, /paʊəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: pore; poor (pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”), from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).

To pour displaced several Middle English verbs:

• schenchen, schenken (“to pour”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour out”) and Old Norse skenkja, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Compare dialectal English shink, skink.
• yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
• birlen (“to pour, serve drink to”), from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to”).
• hellen (“to pour, pour out”), from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline”).
• temen (“to pour out, empty”), from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”). Compare archaic English teem.

Verb

pour (third-person singular simple present pours, present participle pouring, simple past and past participle poured)

1. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

2. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
4. (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
5. (impersonal) To rain hard.

   Synonym: (originally Northern England, Scotland, archaic) spate

6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
7. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.

Synonyms

• (pour a drink): shink, skink

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pour (plural pours)

1. The act of pouring.

2. Something, or an amount, poured.
3. (colloquial) A downpour; a flood of precipitation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

pour

1. Misspelling of pore.

References

See also

• pour encourager les autres

Anagrams

• puro, roup

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• pur, pür
• Puur

Etymology

From Middle High German būre, gibūre, from Old High German gibūro, from būr (“peasant”). Cognate with German Bauer, Dutch buur, English bower.

Noun

pour m

1. (Issime) farmer

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Champenois

Alternative forms

• (Rémois) piou, paou
• (Langrois) peue

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pavor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pu(r)/

Noun

pour m (plural pours)

1. (Troyen) fear

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[3] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[4] (in French), Troyes

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pour, from Old French por, pur, from Late Latin pōr, from Latin prō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puʁ/
• Rhymes: -uʁ

Preposition

pour

1. (followed by a noun or pronoun) for (meant for, intended for)

2. for (in support of)

3. for (as a consequence for)

4. for (an intended destination)

5. (followed by a verb in the infinitive) to (to bring about an intended result)
6. for, to (according to)

Derived terms

• peser le pour et le contre
• pour ainsi dire
• pourboire m
• pour ce qui est de
• pour-cent m
• pour-compte m
• pour que

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prou

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French por, pur.

Preposition

pour

1. for (indicates an intended aim or recipient)

Descendants

• French: pour

Norman

Alternative forms

• pouor (Jersey)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French por, from Late Latin pōr, from Latin prō.

Pronunciation

Preposition

pour (Guernsey)

1. for
2. in order to

Romansch

Alternative forms

• pur (peasant, farmer, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter)
• paur (Vallader)
• pur (pawn, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.

Noun

pour m (plural pours)

1. (Surmiran) peasant, farmer
2. (Surmiran, chess) pawn