tora

From Amharic (tōrā).

tora (plural toras)

1. Synonym of tora hartebeest.

tora

1. first-person plural aorist indicative of tjerr

From Greek τώρα (tóra, “now”).

• IPA^(key):

tora

1. now

Borrowed from Late Latin phthora, from Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction”).

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

tora f (plural tores)

1. aconite

   Synonym: acònit

• “tora”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “tora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰoːɹa/
• Rhymes: -oːɹa
• Homophone: torað

tora f (genitive singular toru, uncountable)

1. thunder

• toruljós
• torusláttur
• toruskýggj
• toruveður

• ódnarveður
• ravmagn
• snarljós
• skýggj
• luft

From Old Norse þora.

tora (third person singular past indicative tordi, third person plural past indicative tordu, supine torað, tort)

1. To dare something.

• vága

From Proto-Finnic *tora, from Proto-Uralic *tora. Cognates include Erzya тюрема (ťurema, “fight, war”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorɑ/,
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): to‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): to‧ra

tora

1. quarrel (verbal dispute or heated argument)

• eripura
• riita
• kiista

• “tora”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Arto, Atro, arot, orat, raot

tora

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

From Proto-Finnic *tora. Cognates include Finnish tora and Estonian tõra.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtorɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtorɑ/,
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Hyphenation: to‧ra

tora

1. quarrel
   • 1916, Volmari Porkka, quoting Palaga, “1259. Soikkola, Metsäkylä, III123”, in Väinö Salminen, V. Alava, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎, volume III2, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 82-83:

     Mäntii toramäelle, // Missä torataa suuret torat,

     They went to the quarrel mountain, // Where big quarrels are quarreled,

tora

1. Rōmaji transcription of とら
2. Rōmaji transcription of トラ

tora

1. battle

From Hebrew תּוֹרָה (torá).

tora (Hebrew spelling תורה)

1. (Judaism) Torah

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “torá”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “Torá”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 558
• Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “Tora”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 378

From Old Norse þora. Cognates include Icelandic þora, Danish turde, Norwegian Bokmål tørre and Faroese tora. Some also come in their mediopassive variants, Swedish töras, as does also the deponent Norwegian Nynorsk torast.

tora (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)

1. (intransitive) to dare

   Synonyms: drista, våga

• This is a split infinitive verb.

• tore (e-infinitive)

• torast

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Torá

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Biblical Hebrew תּוֹרָה (“instruction, law or teaching”).

tora m (definite singular toraen, indefinite plural toraer or toraar, definite plural toraene or toraane)

1. Torah

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Torebrak

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

tora f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer or toror, definite plural torene or torone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tore
2. definite singular of tore

tora (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tora/tor)

1. alternative spelling of tore

• “tora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• orta, otra, rota, toar, troa

• Hyphenation: to‧ra

From toro (“torus, tree ring”).

tora f (plural toras)

1. (Brazil) log (cut and cleared trunk of a tree)

   Synonym: cepo

tora

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

tora

1. genitive singular of tor

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoraː/

tora

1. fringe of cloth

• Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾa/
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: to‧ra

tora f (plural toras)

1. (Honduras, Nicaragua) leatherback (species of sea turtle)

   Synonym: baula

• “tora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , December 10 2024

• torah

Borrowed from Hebrew תּוֹרָה.

tora c

1. a Torah

Toror is the intuitive plural, but seems rare.

• Tora (“Torah”)

• tora in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tora in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tora in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

tora

1. dative singular of tor

From Proto-Finnic *tora, from Proto-Uralic *torɜ. Cognates include Finnish tora.

tora

1. fight, scuffle
2. battle

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “битва, драка, рукопашная, свалка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika