nor

English Online Dictionary. What means nor‎? What does nor mean?

Translingual

Symbol

nor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (General American) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /noɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: gnaw (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not +‎ or.

Conjunction

nor

1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
3. (archaic) Neither.
4. Used to introduce a further negative statement.
5. (UK, dialect) Than.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• neither

Etymology 2

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

Noun

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

Coordinate terms

Anagrams

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

Aromanian

Noun

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nor/ [nor]
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: nor

Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.

Pronoun

nor (interrogative)

1. who

   Nor da? ― Who is he/she?

   Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.

   Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the interrogative pronoun.

Adjective

nor (indeclinable)

1. (grammatical term) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

   Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.

References

Further reading

• “nor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “nor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Champenois

Alternative forms

• (Langrois) no

Etymology

Inherited from Old French noir, from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɔr/

Adjective

nor m (feminine nore, plural nors)

1. (Troyen, Langrois) black

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnor]

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Dutch

Etymology

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, compare brommen (“to do time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/
• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevang, gevangenis, lik

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.

Noun

nor m

1. cloud

Norman

Alternative forms

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: nor

Noun

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Romanian

Alternative forms

• nour — regional, Moldavia (region)
• noor — regional, Oltenia
• nuor, nuvăr — regional, Banat
• nuar — archaic, obsolete

Etymology

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Spanish nube, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol, Provençal nyiuro, niora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nor]

Noun

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

Declension

Derived terms

• (a se) înnora
• noros
• zgârie-nori

Slovene

Etymology

From German Narr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ́r/

Adjective

nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)

1. crazy, insane, mad

Inflection

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish nor, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz. Cognate with English narrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːr/

Noun

nor n

1. narrow strait

Declension

Further reading

• nor in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• nor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• ron

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *noora.

Noun

nor

1. rope

Declension

Yola

Conjunction

nor

1. Alternative form of noor

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 100