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kore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kore"

English

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WOTD – 31 August 2012
 
A reconstruction of a kore

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

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Noun

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kore (plural korai or kores)

  1. (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
    • 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum‎[1], page 42:
      Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores, […] .
    • 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels‎[2], page 14:
      Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
    • 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion‎[3], page 9:
      Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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kore

  1. plural of koor

Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars (“to scratch, rub”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian kā̀ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɾe/
  • Rhymes: -oɾe
  • Hyphenation: kó‧re

Noun

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kore f (plural kore, definite korja, definite plural koret)

  1. scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)
  2. tree bark
  3. (technical) brain cortex, Earth crust
  4. scab (crust on a wound)
    Synonym: dregëz
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Etymology 2

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From Latin cichorēum ~ cichorium.[1]

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɾe/
  • Rhymes: -oɾe
  • Hyphenation: kó‧re

Noun

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kore f (plural kore, definite korea)

  1. chicory
    Synonyms: bresë, radhiqe

Etymology 3

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From koris.

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  • IPA(key): /koˈɾe/
  • Rhymes: -ɾe
  • Hyphenation: ko‧ré

Noun

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kore f

  1. (Gheg) shame, disgrace
    Synonyms: turp, marre
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Etymology 4

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Possibly from Latin quartus.

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kore f

  1. (Tosk) quarter
    Synonym: çerek

Etymology 5

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

Noun

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kore f

  1. bogey, scarecrow, mask
    Synonyms: dordolec, surrat

Etymology 6

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From Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) or Greek κοριός (koriós).

Noun

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kore m (definite koreu)

  1. (Arvanitika) bedbug

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kore”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191

Further reading

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  • “kore”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎[4] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “kore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 209

Esperanto

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Etymology

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koro ‎ -e

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Adverb

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kore

  1. cordially, heartily
    • 1999, “Kore Bonvenon / Intro”, in Esperanto, performed by Freundeskreis:
      Estu kore bonvenaj por la dua albumo de Amikaro / Sub la titolo “Esperanto”
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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkore/, [ˈko̞re̞]
  • Rhymes: -ore
  • Syllabification(key): ko‧re

Noun

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kore

  1. kore (Greek sculpture)

Declension

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Speakers prefer not to inflect this word, and use it only for the nominative singular. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos (“kore-sculpture”) is used instead.

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Hausa

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Other scripts
Ajami کُورٜىٰ

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kóː.rèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [kʷóː.rèː]

Adjective

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kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)

  1. green

Japanese

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Romanization

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kore

  1. Rōmaji transcription of これ

Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese correr.

Verb

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kore

  1. to run
  2. to race
  3. to hurry

Latvian

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Noun

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kore f (5th declension)

  1. ridge
  2. gable
  3. comb
  4. crest
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Declension

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Declension of kore (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kore kores
accusative (akuzatīvs) kori kores
genitive (ģenitīvs) kores koru
dative (datīvs) korei korēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) kori korēm
locative (lokatīvs) korē korēs
vocative (vokatīvs) kore kores

Maori

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Adjective

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kore

  1. without (not having)

Numeral

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kore

  1. zero

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kore/kor)

  1. to choir

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.

Verb

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kore

  1. to flow
  2. to run

Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)

  1. third-person plural present indicative of koriti

Ternate

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Noun

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kore

  1. wind (real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure)

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References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh

Yilan Creole

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Etymology

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From Japanese これ (kore, “this”).

Pronoun

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kore

  1. this (person or object)

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References

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  • Chien Yuehchen (2019) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの指示詞”, in 社会言語科学 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society]‎[5], volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65
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