lor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lor"

English

Alternative forms

• loh, lorh, lo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Particle

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.’

   • 2020 December 1, Eve Lock, quoting Marcus, “Many Of Us Will Save For A Wedding, But Not Retirement”, in ricemedia.co‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 August 2024:

     We had no income, so just eat at Koufu or Kopitiam lor.

   • 2023 January 3, Hykel Quek, quoting Marcus, “3 Ways To Respond to Authority, According to a Fierce (but Resigned) Hougang Uncle”, in ricemedia.co‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

     Within a minute, Hougang uncle moves from denial, anger, and bargaining to “ok lor I’ll just remove them”—a quintessential Singaporean pattern of resignation.

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

   • 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene viii, page 41:

     young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this?
     young father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.

   • 2022 July 21, Sophie Chew, quoting Visakan Veerasamy, “Afraid of ‘Saying the Wrong Thing’ About Racism? Speak Up Anyway.”, in ricemedia.co‎^[3], archived from the original on 19 July 2024:

     I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.

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

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

   • 2018 September 17, Pan Jie, “Why Do We Greet Each Other By Asking, ‘Have You Eaten?’”, in ricemedia.co‎^[4], archived from the original on 2 October 2024:

     It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes. “Relatives lor” is the top reply, and “Small-talk with taxi drivers” emerged as a runner-up because many feel compelled to make conversation after the initial “PIE or CTE?” decision.

   • 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! (begrudgingly) OK! I'm sorry!

   Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)

   • 2017 November 10, “‘Sorry ... what do you expect?’ says former top policeman on trial for Occupy assault”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022:

     A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton on instinct.

Derived terms

• win liao lor

See also

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

References

• Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎^[6]
• Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎^[7], volume 34, number 6

Anagrams

• LRO, ORL, orl

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a lor, loru, alor, aloru

Etymology

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

Pronoun

lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)

1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

Pronoun

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

1. to them

Usage notes

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

Related terms

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

Breton

Adjective

lor

1. dirty

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lo¹
    • Yale: lō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː⁵⁵/

Particle

lor

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

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōrum.

Determiner

lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)

1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

See also

Franco-Provençal possessive determiners

			Possessee
			singular		plural
			m	f	m	f
Possessor	singular	1st	mon	ma	mos	mes
		2nd	ton	ta	tos	tes
		3rd	son	sa	sos	ses
	plural	1st	noutron	noutra	noutros	noutres
		2nd	voutron	voutra	voutros	voutres
		3rd	lor		lors

Pronoun

lor (ORB, broad)

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

Notes

As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.

See also

Franco-Provençal personal pronouns

singular	nominative	accusative	dative	tonic1	possessive2
1st person	jo	mè			min
2nd person	te	tè			tin
3rd person masculine	il	lo / le	lui		sin
3rd person feminine	el	la	lyé
3rd person neuter	o		y	—
3rd person reflexive	—	sè
plural	nominative	accusative	dative	tonic1	possessive2
1st person	nos				noutro
2nd person	vos				voutro
3rd person masculine	ils	los / les	lor		lor
3rd person feminine	els	les	lor / lyés
3rd person reflexive	—	sè
1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.		2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

References

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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lor/, /lɔɾ/

Preposition

lor

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

Derived terms

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

See also

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lor

1. (Java) north

Further reading

• “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.

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian loro and French leur.

Determiner

lor

1. (possessive) their

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

lor

1. Apocopic form of loro
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[8], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[9], 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!

Javanese

Romanization

lor

1. Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• or

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loː/

Etymology 1

From French or.

Noun

lor

1. Gold

Etymology 2

From French là-haut.

Preposition

lor

1. on

   Antonym: anba

Old Catalan

Alternative forms

• lur

Etymology

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

Pronoun

lor

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

References

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lor/

Noun

lor n

1. loss, destruction

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	lor	—
accusative	lor	—
genitive	lores	—
dative	lore	—

Descendants

• Middle English: lore

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[10], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• leur
• lur

Etymology

From Latin illōrum.

Pronoun

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

Determiner

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.

Descendants

• French: leur

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Noun

lor

1. north

   Synonyms: uttara, sĕlatan

Derived terms

• kalor
• linor
• linoran
• maṅalor
• paṅaloran

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦂ (lor, “north”)

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lor/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

1. (also possessive determiner) their

Synonyms

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

Pronoun

lor (dative form of ei, and ele)

1. to them

See also

• meu
• tău
• său
• lui
• ei
• nostru
• vostru

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian لور.

Noun

lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)

1. A whey cheese similar to ricotta.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	lor
Definite accusative	loru
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lor	lorlar
Definite accusative	loru	lorları
Dative	lora	lorlara
Locative	lorda	lorlarda
Ablative	lordan	lorlardan
Genitive	lorun	lorların

Wolof

Noun

lor (definite form lor wi)

1. saliva

   Synonym: tëflit