lor

From Cantonese 囉 (lo1).

• (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA^(key): /lɔː˦/

lor (Manglish, Singlish)

1. Used to convey a sense of resignation.

   Ya lor/Han nor. ― Yeah, I guess so.

   Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.

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

   • 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. Emphasizes the inferability of a conclusion.

   You lor. ― It's obviously you then.

   Then tell him lor. ― Why don't you tell him, then?

• what, lah, leh, hor, meh, mah

• Low, Ee Ling; Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎
• Wee, Lionel (2002), “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎, volume 34, issue 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

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

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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto III”, in Inferno, lines 103–105:

     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)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     la novele lor aporte

     [He] brought the news to them

lor

1. their (third-person plural possessive)
   • circa 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”)

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

• IPA^(key): /lor/

lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

1. (also possessive determiner) their

• (less frequently used): săi (masculine), sale (feminine)

lor (dative form of ei, and ele)

1. to them

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