koro

Possibly from Makasar garring koro' (lit. koro illness, "shrinking of the toilet", Matthes 1859), Buginese, or Malay. See "Koro § Etymology and geographical background" at Wikipedia for a full discussion.

koro (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.

• Mathes B. F. (1859). Makassaarsch-Hollandsch Woordenboek. Amsterdam: Het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap te Amsterdam, p. 43 ("inkrimping van het gemak").

• Kroo, Orok, kroo, roko, rook

From Latin cor. Doublet of kero.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoro]
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• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: ko‧ro

koro (accusative singular koron, plural koroj, accusative plural korojn)

1. heart
2. clapper (tongue of a bell)

From Proto-Central-Pacific *koro, from Proto-Oceanic *koro (compare Tongan kolo).

koro

1. town
2. village (use koro lailai to specify that it's smaller in size than a town)
3. settlement

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoro/, [ˈko̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧ro

Probably borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᛊᚲᛟᚱᛟ (*skoro), from Proto-Germanic *skurō.

koro

1. (heraldry) line of partition, line
2. (botany) open scar

Back-formation from korottaa.

koro

1. (ballistics) elevation (angle)

• orko

koro (plurale tantum)

1. water

• Angelika Jakobi, A Fur Grammar: Phonology, Morphophonology, and Morphology (1990)
• Arthur Charles Beaton, A grammar of the Fur language (1968)

koro

1. Rōmaji transcription of ころ

koro

1. five

koro

1. body
2. self

koro (used in the form koro-a)

1. grandfather

kòro f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of kòru

• IPA^(key): /kò.ɾò/

kòrò (plural kòròzhì)

1. neck

   Synonym: kpatsùn

• IPA^(key): /kō.ɾō/

koro

1. navel; belly button

• IPA^(key): /kō.ɾō/

koro

1. rheum; sleepy dust

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.rɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔ
• Syllabification: ko‧ro

koro f

1. vocative singular of kora

koro

1. (archaic) father

Considered archaic; the following are preferred:

• matu'a tamaaroa
• matu'a tane

Clipping of kòrónà.

• àrùn kòró

• IPA^(key): /kò.ɾó/

kòró

1. (colloquial) corona (disease)

• IPA^(key): /kō.ɾò/

korò

1. to be bitter

• korò bí ewúro (“to be as bitter as bitter leaf”)

• IPA^(key): /kó.ɾó/

kóró

1. seed; kernel

• dúdú bí kóró iṣin (“to be as dark as an ackee seed”)