lor

• loh, lo

From Hokkien 囉／啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉／啰 (lo1).

• (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA^(key): /lɔː˦/, (sometimes, after /n/) /(n)ɔː˦/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /lɔ˥/

lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)

1. Tagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or inevitability.

   Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.

   OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.

   Bo pian lor. ― We don’t have a choice.

   • 2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:

     [B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’

2. Used to suggest that there is an obvious logical resolution or answer to something.

   You lor, or else still got who? ― It’s obviously you then.

   Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.

   Take a cab lor, easier this way. ― Just take a cab, it’s easier this way.

3. Suggests that the reply given is the typical or expected one.

   At my house lor. ― At my house, where else?

   • 2024 February 6, Carrie Tan, “Advancing Mental Health”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 95:

     As a facilitator, I often ask the participants: how are you feeling now? And often, the replies I get are: "Okay lor", "Like that lor".

4. Used to reinforce an opinion, sometimes in a sarcastic manner.

   Sorry lor. ― (sarcastic) Oh I’m so sorry!

   Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)

• win liao lor

• (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, mah, meh, one, sia, what

• Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎^[1]
• Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎^[2], volume 34, number 6

• LRO, ORL, orl

• a lor, loru, alor, aloru

From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.

lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)

1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)

1. to them

Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".

• (a) lui (masculine singular dative- long/stressed form)
• (a) ljei (feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
• lã (masculine/feminine plural dative- short/unstressed form)

lor

1. dirty

lor

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 囉／啰 (particle)

Inherited from Latin illōrum.

lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)

1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

lor (ORB, broad)

1. them (third-person plural dative or tonic)
2. theirs (third-person plural possessor)

As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.

• leur in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• lor in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.

• IPA^(key): /lor/, /lɔɾ/

lor

1. at the time of (an event), at the same time as

• lora (“then, now”)
• lore (“then, at the time”)

• dum (“during, in (a period of time)”)

From Javanese lor (ꦭꦺꦴꦂ), from Old Javanese lor, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of laut.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔr]
• Hyphenation: lor

lor

1. (Java) north

• “lor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Italian loro and French leur.

lor

1. (possessive) their

• IPA^(key): /ˈlor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: lór

lor

1. Apocopic form of loro
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[3], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[4], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Bestemmiavano Dio e’ lor parenti,
     l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme
     di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.

     God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
     the human race, the place, the time, the seed
     of their engendering and of their birth!

lor

1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ

• or

• IPA^(key): /loː/

From French or.

lor

1. Gold

From French là-haut.

lor

1. on

   Antonym: anba

• lur

In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.

lor

1. them (dative)
2. them (accusative)

• “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• leur
• lur

From Latin illōrum.

lor

1. to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     la novele lor aporte

     [He] brought the news to them

lor

1. their (third-person plural possessive)
   • c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Et lor dex en ont merciés.

     And they thanked their gods for it.

• French: leur

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).

lor

1. north

   Synonyms: uttara, sĕlatan

• Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦂ (lor, “north”)

Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.

• IPA^(key): /lor/

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lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

1. (also possessive determiner) their

• (less frequently used): său (masculine singular), sa (feminine singular), săi (masculine plural), sale (feminine plural)

lor (dative form of ei, and ele)

1. to them

 

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From Persian لور.

lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)

1. A whey cheese similar to ricotta.

lor (definite form lor wi)

1. saliva

   Synonym: tëflit