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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Noun
pore (plural pores)
- A tiny opening in the skin.
- Synonym: sweat hole
I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
- By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
the pores of a rock.
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Translations
a tiny opening in the skin
- Arabic: مَسَام f pl (masām)
- Egyptian Arabic: مسام f pl (masaam)
- Bashkir: күҙәнәк (küźənək)
- Belarusian: по́ра f (póra)
- Bulgarian: по́ра (bg) f (póra)
- Catalan: porus (ca) m, por (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 毛孔 (zh) (máokǒng)
- Coptic: ⲥⲓⲗⲓ f (sili)
- Czech: pór (cs)
- Danish: pore c
- Dutch: porie (nl) f
- Esperanto: poro (eo)
- Finnish: huokonen (fi)
- French: pore (fr) m
- Galician: poro (gl) m
- Georgian: ფორი (pori)
- German: Pore (de) f
- Greek: πόρος (el) m (póros)
- Ancient: πόρος m (póros)
- Hungarian: pórus (hu)
- Ido: poro (io)
- Irish: póir f, piochán m
- Italian: poro (it) m
- Japanese: (kanji for 'secretion') -線 (ja) (-sen), (kanji for 'tiny opening') -孔 (ja) (-kou), (general) 小孔 (shōkō), (pore of the skin) 毛穴 (keana), (sweat pore) 皮脂腺 (ja) (hishi-sen), (stoma) 気孔 (ja) (kikō)
- Korean: 기공 (ko) (gigong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kunik (ku) f
- Malayalam: സുഷിരം (ml) (suṣiraṁ)
- Maori: pōnaho
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pore m, pore f
- Nynorsk: pore f
- Old English: swātþȳrel n, līcþēote f
- Old Polish: sierotki pl
- Polish: por (pl) m
- Portuguese: poro (pt) m
- Russian: по́ра (ru) f (póra)
- Slovak: pór m
- Spanish: poro (es) m
- Swedish: por (sv) c
- Tagalog: kilit, kilit ng balat
- Tocharian B: klokaśce
- Turkish: gözenek (tr)
- Ukrainian: по́ра f (póra)
- Vietnamese: lổ chân lông
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by extension any small opening
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Etymology 2
From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.
Verb
pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)
- To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
- To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Derived terms
Translations
to meditate or reflect in a steady way
Anagrams
Cornish
Noun
pore
- Hard mutation of bore.
Danish
Etymology
From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).
Pronunciation
Noun
pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)
- pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
From por + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
pore
- bubble (gas bubble in water)
- Synonym: kupla
- area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
- (slang) speed (recreational amphetamine drug)
- Synonyms: piri, amfe, amffe, spiidi, vauhti, pöhinä, virta, vireeni, (standard) amfetamiini
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French
Etymology
From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pore m (plural pores)
- pore (small opening in the skin)
- (by extension) small opening of any kind
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Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
Related terms
References
- “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
Related terms
References
- “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore oblique singular, m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)
- pore (small opening in skin)
Venetian
Adjective
pore f
- feminine plural of poro
Yanomamö
Noun
pore
- a type of ghost, apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages
References
- Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN