kore

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

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

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹeɪ/, /ˈkoʊɹeɪ/, /ˈkoɹi/, /ˈkoʊɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪ, -əʊɹeɪ, -ɔːɹi, -əʊɹi
• Homophones: korai; Corey, corey, Cory, cory

kore (plural korai)

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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

• baal kore

• “kore”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “kore”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• kero, oker, roke

kore

1. plural of koor

kore

1. (ditransitive) to give

• 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

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[4], 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkore/

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• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification: 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/, [ˈko̞re̞]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧re
• 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

Other scripts
Ajami	کُورٜىٰ

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

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

Compare with Rarotongan kore and Tahitian ʻore (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kore

1. without (not having)

   kore utu: free (lit. 'without price')

When compounded with nouns, it is always attached to the end of words.

waikore: without water

iwikore: feeble (lit. 'without bones/boneless')

kore

1. zero

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “kore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 164-5
• “kore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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 (movement of air)

• 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. (Aohua, Hanhsi, Tungyueh) this (person or object)

   ikura kore

   How much is it?

   nani no musi kore

   What insect is this?

• 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 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society]‎^[5], volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65
• Peng Qiu (2015), A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole‎^[6] (Master's thesis)
• 林愷娣 [Lin Kaidi] (2022), A basic description of Yilan Creole phonology: with a special focus on the Aohua dialect‎^[7] (Unpublished thesis)