# wor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /wɔː/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː

### Etymology 1

Likely ultimately a borrowing into Northumbrian Old English from Old Norse várr (“our”) (from the same Proto-Germanic root *unseraz that produced Standard English our). Compare Scots wir.

#### Determiner

wor
* (Geordie) Our.
    If ye gannin oot the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.

##### Usage notes

* Used primarily with family members or close friends of a family.

##### Derived terms

* wor kid (Geordie)
* wor lass (Geordie)

### Etymology 2

From an altered pronunciation of was.

#### Verb

wor
* (dialect, Northern England, East Midlands, West Country) Was; were.
** 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213:“I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.

### Anagrams

* Row, ORW, row, ROW

## Abinomn
### Noun

wor
* stone

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): wo$^3$ / wo$^5$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wo$^3$ / wo$^5$
*** Yale: wo / wóh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wo$^3$ / wo$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wo$^3$ / wo$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɔː³³/, /wɔː¹³/

### Particle

wor
* (Cantonese) Alternative form of 喎 / 㖞 (particle)

## Chuukese
### Verb

wor
* to exist

## Javanese
### Romanization

wor
* Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦂ

## Lolopo
### Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *wa¹ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Nuosu ꃰ (vo).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [wo²¹]

### Noun

wor
* (Yao'an) snow

#### Usage notes

* Used in compounds, the normal word for "snow" is wor lei a.

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* waar
* wo

### Etymology

From Middle Low German wār, wōr, wūr, from Old Saxon hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔːr/

### Adverb

wor
* (interrogative) where (at what place)
* (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)
* (interrogative, with a preposition) what, which thing
* (relative, with a preposition) what, that which
* (relative) when, that (on which; at which time)

#### Synonyms

* woneem, 'neem

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* wore, ware

### Etymology

From Old English wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wair.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɔːr(ə)/

### Noun

wor (uncountable)
* The seashore, beach; sand (on a seashore).
* seaweed (in sewor)

#### Descendants

* English: ware
* ⇒ Fingallian: blob-wore
* Scots: ware
* Yola: wore

#### References

* “wōr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wor/
* Rhymes: -wor
* Hyphenation: wor

### Adjective

wor
* confused (of a battle),
* engaged in battle,

### Noun

wor
* fighting hand-to-hand

### Derived terms

* amor
* amorakĕn
* amori
* awor
* kawor-wor
* kaworan
* pamoran
* umor
* winor
* winorakĕn
* winoran

### Descendants

* > Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦂ (wor) (inherited)

### Further reading

* "wor" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.