lor

• loh, lo

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

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

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.’

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

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

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

   • 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!

   Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)

• win liao lor

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

• Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎^[1]
• Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎^[2], volume 34, number 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 (third-personal plural possessor)

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

lor

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

Inherited from Latin illōrum.

lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)

1. their (third-personal plural possessor)

lor (ORB, broad)

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

As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.

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

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[3], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[4], 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!

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)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     la novele lor aporte

     [He] brought the news to them

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.

• 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”)

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

• IPA^(key): /lor/

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lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)

1. (also possessive determiner) their

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

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.

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

lor (definite form lor wi)

1. saliva

   Synonym: tëflit