kore

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English

A reconstruction of a kore

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

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Afrikaans

Noun

kore

  1. plural of koor

Albanian

Etymology

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).

Noun

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

  1. scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)

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Esperanto

Etymology

koro +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

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)

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

kore

  1. kore (Greek sculpture)

Declension

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.

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Anagrams

Hausa

Pronunciation

Adjective

kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)

  1. green

Japanese

Romanization

kore

  1. Rōmaji transcription of これ

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese correr.

Verb

kore

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

Latvian

Noun

kore f (5th declension)

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

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Maori

Adjective

kore

  1. without (not having)

Numeral

kore

  1. zero

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

  1. to choir

Papiamentu

Etymology

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

Verb

kore

  1. to flow
  2. to run

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)

  1. third-person plural present indicative of koriti

Ternate

Noun

kore

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

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References

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

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese これ (kore, this).

Pronoun

kore

  1. this (person or object)

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References

  • 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, issue 2, pages 50-65