poro

• IPA^(key): /pòꜛɾó/

poro (Kana spelling ポロ)

1. big, large, many, a lot of

   poro cise

   big house

   poro sayo

   A lot of porridge

poro (Kana spelling ポロ)

1. to be big, to become big

   e=poro yakun

   When you grow up

• pon

• poronno (“many”)

poro

1. husband

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

poro

1. therefore

• por eso

• IPA^(key): /ˈporo/
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: po‧ro

poro (accusative singular poron, plural poroj, accusative plural porojn)

1. pore

• poroza

Borrowed from Finnish poro by Estonian writer, folklorist, and translator August Annist in 1926.

• IPA^(key): /ˈporo/, [ˈporo]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: po‧ro

poro (genitive poro, partitive poro or porot)

2. Eurasian reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

   Hypernym: põhjapõder

   Coordinate term: karibu

4. (colloquial, ethnic slur) a Finn

   Synonyms: soomlane, (colloquial) somm, (colloquial, ethnic slur) põder

Declension of poro (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		poro	porod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	poro
genitive			porode
partitive		poro	porosid
illative		porro porosse	porodesse
inessive		poros	porodes
elative		porost	porodest
allative		porole	porodele
adessive		porol	porodel
ablative		porolt	porodelt
translative		poroks	porodeks
terminative		poroni	porodeni
essive		porona	porodena
abessive		porota	porodeta
comitative		poroga	porodega

Declension of poro (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		poro	porod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	poro
genitive			porode
partitive		porot	porosid
illative		porro porosse	porodesse
inessive		poros	porodes
elative		porost	porodest
allative		porole	porodele
adessive		porol	porodel
ablative		porolt	porodelt
translative		poroks	porodeks
terminative		poroni	porodeni
essive		porona	porodena
abessive		porota	porodeta
comitative		poroga	porodega

• poro in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “poro”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /ˈporo/, [ˈpo̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification^(key): po‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): po‧ro

In some way from Proto-Finno-Permic *počaw, probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, especially sheep or cattle”). The regular inherited form would have been in **poto < Proto-Finnic **poto. Koivulehto (2007) suggests that r in place of expected t has developed by generalization from an old Northwestern dialect form *podoi, and the word was later loaned back to the more southern and eastern dialects.^[1] Kuokkala (2018) instead posits that the Finnic words could be borrowed from Samic, where the -r- would substitute for the affricate in the Sami etymon.^[2]

poro

1. reindeer (domesticated or semi-domesticated mountain reindeer, Rangifer tarandus tarandus)

   Hypernyms: tunturipeura, peura, hirvieläin

   Hyponyms: hirvas, vaadin

   Coordinate term: metsäpeura

• poro normally refers to tamed reindeer, while peura refers to a wild animal.

• → Estonian: poro

• “1. poro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Proto-Finnic *poro (compare Ingrian poro, Karelian poro, Ludian poro, Veps poro, Votic poro).

poro

1. (usually in the plural) grounds (e.g. coffee grounds)
2. (chiefly in the plural) ashes

   Piipunporot aiheuttivat metsäpalon.

   Pipe ashes caused a forest fire.

   palaa poroksi ― to burn into ashes (intransitive)

   polttaa poroksi ― to burn into ashes (transitive)

• “2. poro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• orpo, ropo

Attested since 1409. From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾʊ]

poro m (plural poros)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
2. pore (any small opening)
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

     et esto asy posto amansa a door et abre os poros et faz as huñas humidas para se tallaren mellor

     and this, put like that, tames the pain and opens the pores and makes the hoof moist so it can be cut easily

• poroso

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “poros”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “poro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “poro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “poro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “poro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

poro (plural pori)

1. pore

• poroza

poro

1. island

From Proto-Finnic *poro. Cognates include Finnish poro and Veps poro.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈporo/, [ˈpo̞ro̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈporo/, [ˈpo̞ro̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: po‧ro

poro

1. litter, waste

Declension of poro (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	poro	porot
genitive	poron	porroin, poroloin
partitive	porroa	poroja, poroloja
illative	porroo	porroi, poroloihe
inessive	poros	porois, porolois
elative	porost	poroist, poroloist
allative	porolle	poroille, poroloille
adessive	porol	poroil, poroloil
ablative	porolt	poroilt, poroloilt
translative	poroks	poroiks, poroloiks
essive	poronna, porroon	poroinna, poroloinna, porroin, poroloin
exessive1)	poront	poroint, poroloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 424

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: pò‧ro

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

poro m (plural pori)

1. pore (of the body, a rock, etc.)

• nanoporo
• poroso

Clipping of povero.

poro (feminine pora, masculine plural pori, feminine plural pore)

1. (dialectal, Romanesco) alternative form of povero

• porello

• poro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• opro, oprò

From pulo, akin to Malay pulau.

poro

1. island

• IPA^(key): /ˈporo/ [ˈpɔɾɔ]

From Proto-Oceanic *polos (“to cut across, to sever”). Compare Samoan polo.

poro (passive poroa)

1. to break, to cut off

   Synonym: motu

2. to amputate, to behead

   Synonyms: tapa, tapahi

3. to shorten, to abbreviate
4. to finish

poro

1. butt or end of a rod, stick etc

   Synonym: pito

   poroiwi ― sacrum

2. block, slab (from cutting elongated object)

   poro rākau ― log

poro

1. broken off

Compare also with Rarotongan poro (“heel”) and Tahitian poro (“heel, elbow”); maybe related to sense of “butt or end of stick” in Etymology 1. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

poro

1. anything with a rounded or curvy surface
   1. ball

• piko

From Proto-Polynesian *polo; cognate with Hawaiian pōpolo, Tongan polo (“deadly nightshade, Solanum nigrum”), Fijian boro, Tuvaluan 'opolo (“capsicum”).^[1]

poro

1. any kind of Solanum plant

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “poro”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 343
• “poro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• porok, poruk

From Proto-Tani *rok, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-rak.

porò

1. fowl, chicken or cock

• P. T. Abraham (2005), A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[3], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

From Proto-Slavic *bàra.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈrɔ/

poro f

1. swamp, marsh, bog; dung, dirt

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Polański, Kazimierz (1976), “poro”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 4 (perĕt – ŕotťǝ), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 550
• Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “poro”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 113

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.rɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔ
• Syllabification: po‧ro

poro f

1. vocative singular of pora

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

• Hyphenation: po‧ro

poro m (plural poros)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
2. pore (any small opening)

• poroso
• porejar

• “poro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “poro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

poro

1. pavement of water-worn stones in front of an ahu

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾo/ [ˈpo.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: po‧ro

poro m (plural poros)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
2. pore (any small opening)

• “poro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Proto-Batak *pərəh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

poro

1. to wring, to squeeze
2. to milk

• Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landesdrukkerij, p. 154.

poro

1. acquaintance

• poroman

• pren

• poaro, povaro, pore

From Latin pauper, pauperem. Compare Italian povero.

poro (feminine singular pora, masculine plural pori, feminine plural pore)

1. poor

From Proto-Finnic *poro.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈporo/, [ˈporo]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: po‧ro

poro

1. lye (alkaline liquid)

Declension of poro (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	poro	porod
genitive	poro	porojõ, poroi
partitive	porroa	poroitõ, poroi
illative	porrosõ, porro	poroisõ
inessive	poroz	poroiz
elative	porossõ	poroissõ
allative	porolõ	poroilõ
adessive	porollõ	poroillõ
ablative	poroltõ	poroiltõ
translative	porossi	poroissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “poro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn