tor

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/

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• Homophones: tore, torr (all accents); tour (pour-poor merger); taw (non-rhotic)

From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“high structure”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin. Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish tor, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are from Proto-Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) and τύρσις (túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also tower.

tor (plural tors)

1. A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
2. (South-West England) A hill.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:

     Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.

   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:

     The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.

   • 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse (2008), →ISBN, page 242:

     She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.

3. (Britain, dialectal) A tower; a turret.

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tor (comparative more tor, superlative most tor)

1. Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

• ORT, OTR, RTO, TRO, ort, rot

• IPA^(key): [toɾ]

tor (plural [please provide])

1. beetle

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tor, “net”).

tor (definite accusative toru, plural torlar)

1. net

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːr/

tor m (plural torioù, collective toroù)

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach, abdomen

• kof

tor

1. Hard mutation of dor.

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoːˀɐ̯]

tor

1. present of to

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• Rhymes: -ɔr
• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

tor m (plural torren, diminutive torretje n)

1. beetle

• kever

• rot

• IPA^(key): [ˈtor]

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• Hyphenation: tor

tor (plural torok)

1. meal, repast (ceremonial meal held after funerals)

   halotti tor ― funeral feast

   disznótor ― meal on pig-killing day

• disznótor

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

tor (plural torok)

1. (zoology) thorax (of an arthropod)

• IPA^(key): [t̪ˠɔɾˠ]

From Old Irish tor.

tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)

1. bush, shrub; clump, tuft
2. head (of cabbage)

• (bush, shrub): tom
• (head): ceann

tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)

1. (geography) tall rock; steep rocky height
2. (literary) tower; towering warrior, pillar (of battle)

tor m

1. Alternative form of toradh

tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)

1. Alternative form of tarathar

• "tor" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “tor” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

• tur, tour, toer

• IPA^(key): /tur/
• Rhymes: -ur

tor f (oblique plural tors, nominative singular tor, nominative plural tors)

1. tower

• Middle French: tour
  • French: tour
    • → Breton: tour
    • → Russian: тура (tura)
    • → Ukrainian: тура (tura)
• Walloon: tour
• → Middle Low German: tōrn, tōren
  • German Low German: Toorn, Toren
  • → Estonian: torn
  • → Latvian: tornis
  • → Old Norse: turn
    • Danish: tårn
    • Faroese: torn
    • Icelandic: turn
    • Norwegian: tårn
      • → Northern Sami: toardna
    • Swedish: torn
      • → Finnish: torni
• → Old Dutch: turn
  • Middle Dutch: torre
    • Dutch: toren
      • Afrikaans: toring
    • Limburgish: toeare
    • West Flemish: torre
• → Old English: torr, tūr, tor
  • Middle English: tour, tur, tor
    • English: tower
      • → German: Tower
      • → Hindi: टावर (ṭāvar)
      • → Japanese: タワー (tawā)
      • → Korean: 타워 (tawo)
      • → Punjabi: ਟਾਵਰ (ṭāvr)
    • Scots: tour, towr
• → Old Frisian: torn
  • West Frisian: toer
• → Old High German: torn
  • Middle High German: turn, turm
    • Alemannic German: Durm
    • Bavarian: Tuam
    • Luxembourgish: Tur
    • German: Turm
      • → Lower Sorbian: torm
      • → Luxembourgish: Tuerm
      • → Romanian: turn
    • Yiddish: טורעם‎ (turem)
    • → Polish: turma
• Irish: túr
• Scottish Gaelic: tùr

From Latin taurus.

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

tor m (oblique plural tors, nominative singular tors, nominative plural tor)

1. bull (bovine)

• torel (whence French taureau)

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

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From Proto-Slavic *torъ, from *terti.

tor m inan

1. track, course, path
2. rail track
3. lane (a part of a sports track)
4. trajectory

• (verb) torować
• (nouns) torowiec, torowisko
• (adjective) torowy

From Latin thorium, from Old Scandinavian Thorr.

tor m inan

1. thorium

Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

tor m (symbol Tr)

1. torr

tor

1. genitive plural of tora

• tor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) tur
• (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) tuor

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

tor m (plural tors)

1. (Surmiran) tower

• IPA^(key): [téʊːɐ]

tor

1. March (month)

From Proto-Slavic *torъ.

• IPA^(key): /tôːr/

tȏr m (Cyrillic spelling то̑р)

1. corral, cote

• toru
• toy

From West Old Turkic tor ("young, young animal, callow, immature, timid"), from Proto-Turkic *tōr- (“a kind of young animal”). Related to toy.

tor (definite accusative toru, plural torlar)

1. young
2. novice
3. whelp
4. beginner
5. recruit

• „tor“ in the dictionary of the Turkish language (TDK)
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “toraman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “torun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “torlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Turkic *d(i)ār.

tor

1. narrow, tight

tor (plural torlar)

1. string

tor

1. (transitive) to take
2. (transitive) to get

• IPA^(key): [toɾ]

tor (plural tors)

1. bull

• hibub

• kun
• jibub

• torül (“bull calf, male calf”)

• torra (second-person singular imperative)
• torriff (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
• torrith (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
• tyr (literary, third-person singular present/future)

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

tor

1. (literary) third-person singular present/future of torri
2. (literary) second-person singular imperative of torri