cora

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

cora f (plural cores)

1. kore

Galician

Alternative forms

• cor

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from cor, but this can't explain the open tonic vowel.

Same root as Portuguese 'cora': i.e. to brown or blush bread. To add colour to the loaf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾa̝/

Noun

cora f (plural coras)

1. small fire lit before the oven for maintaining it hot or to brown the bread

References

• “cora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠə/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cora (“stone fence; weir”).

Noun

cora f (genitive singular cora, nominative plural coraí)

1. weir

Declension

Alternative inflected forms:

• genitive singular: coradh, corann
• dative singular: coraidh, corainn
• plural: coradha, coraidheacha, coraíocha

Derived terms

• Cora Droma Rúisc (“Carrick-on-Shannon”)

Etymology 2

Noun

cora

1. plural of cor (“twist, (fishing) cast, (dancing) reel”)

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cora (‘stone fence; weir’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cora”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 182
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cora”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ra/,

Noun

cora f (genitive corae); first declension

1. pupil (of the eye)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• wcora (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьčera. Cognate with Upper Sorbian wčera, Polish wczoraj, Czech včera, Russian вчера́ (včerá), Old Church Slavonic вьчєра (vĭčera).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔra/

Adverb

cora

1. yesterday

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “cora”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “cora”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit चौर (caura), चोर (cora).

Noun

cora m

1. thief, robber, bandit

References

• Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ra

Verb

cora

1. inflection of corar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

San Juan Colorado Mixtec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish corral.

Noun

corá

1. corral

References

• Stark Campbell, Sara, et al. (1986) Diccionario mixteco de San Juan Colorado (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 29)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 9

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾa/
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: co‧ra

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cora f (plural coras)

1. (historical) a territorial subdivision in Al-Andalus

Etymology 2

From American English quarter.

Noun

cora f (plural coras)

1. (El Salvador) a US currency coin worth 25 cents, a quarter

   Synonyms: (New Mexico) cuara, (Panama) cuarto

Further reading

• “cora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014