kore

From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/

kore (plural korai or kores)

1. (art, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
   • 1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum‎, page 42:

     Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores, […] .

   • 1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels‎, page 14:

     Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).

   • 2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion‎, page 9:

     Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.

• kouros (statue of a male)

• korephilia

• Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• kero, oker, roke

kore

1. plural of koor

• korë, korie

From Proto-Albanian *kāsra, from Proto-Indo-European *kars (“to scratch, rub”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“comb, curry”), Latvian kā̀ršu (“wool comb”), Latin cardus (“thistle”), Middle High German harsten (“become hard, rough”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾe/
• Rhymes: -oɾe
• Hyphenation: kó‧re

kore f (plural kore, definite korja, definite plural koret)

1. scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)
2. tree bark
3. (technical) brain cortex, Earth crust
4. scab (crust on a wound)

   Synonym: dregëz

From Latin cichorēum ~ cichorium.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾe/
• Rhymes: -oɾe
• Hyphenation: kó‧re

kore f (plural kore, definite korea)

1. chicory

   Synonyms: bresë, radhiqe

From koris.

• IPA^(key): /koˈɾe/
• Rhymes: -ɾe
• Hyphenation: ko‧ré

kore f

1. (Gheg) shame, disgrace

   Synonyms: turp, marre

Possibly from Latin quartus.

kore f

1. (Tosk) quarter

   Synonym: çerek

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

kore f

1. bogey, scarecrow, mask

   Synonyms: dordolec, surrat

From Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) or Greek κοριός (koriós).

kore m (definite koreu)

1. (Arvanitika) bedbug

• “kore”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “kore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “kore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 209

koro +‎ -e

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• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: ko‧re

kore

1. cordially, heartily
   • 1999, “Kore Bonvenon / Intro”, in Esperanto, performed by Freundeskreis:

     Estu kore bonvenaj por la dua albumo de Amikaro / Sub la titolo “Esperanto”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkore/,
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation^(key): ko‧re

kore

1. kore (Greek sculpture)

Speakers prefer not to inflect this word, and use it only for the nominative singular. If inflection is needed, the term kore-veistos (“kore-sculpture”) is used instead.

• kore-veistos

• kero

• IPA^(key): /kóː.rèː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)

1. green

kore

1. Rōmaji transcription of これ

From Portuguese correr.

kore

1. to run
2. to race
3. to hurry

kore f (5th declension)

1. ridge
2. gable
3. comb
4. crest

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kore

1. without (not having)

kore

1. zero

kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kore/kor)

1. to choir

From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.

kore

1. to flow
2. to run

kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)

1. third-person plural present indicative of koriti

kore

1. wind (real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure)

• simote kore

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh

From Japanese これ (kore, “this”).

kore

1. this (person or object)

• kore, are, dore
• koci, aci, doko
• kono, ano, dono
• konna no, anna no, donna no
• konnasite, annasite, donnasite

• Chien Yuehchen (2019) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの指示詞”, in 社会言語科学 ‎, volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65