# lor
## English
### Alternative forms

* loh, lorh, lo

### Etymology

From Hokkien 囉 / 啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉 / 啰 (lo1).

### Pronunciation

* (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA: /lɔː˦/, (sometimes, after /n/) /(n)ɔː˦/
* (Hong Kong) IPA: /lɔ˥/

### Particle

lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)
* Tagged at the end of a sentence to convey a sense of resignation or inevitability.
    Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.
    OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.
    Bo pian lor. ― We don’t have a choice.
** 2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:[B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’
** 2020 December 1, Eve Lock, quoting Marcus, “Many Of Us Will Save For A Wedding, But Not Retirement”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 8 August 2024:We had no income, so just eat at Koufu or Kopitiam lor.
** 2023 January 3, Hykel Quek, quoting Marcus, “3 Ways To Respond to Authority, According to a Fierce (but Resigned) Hougang Uncle”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:Within a minute, Hougang uncle moves from denial, anger, and bargaining to “ok lor I’ll just remove them”—a quintessential Singaporean pattern of resignation.
* Used to suggest that there is an obvious answer or logical solution to something.
    You lor, or else still got who? ― It’s obviously you then.
    Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.
    Take a cab lor, easier this way. ― Just take a cab, it’s easier this way.
** 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene viii, page 41:young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this? young father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.
** 2022 July 21, Sophie Chew, quoting Visakan Veerasamy, “Afraid of ‘Saying the Wrong Thing’ About Racism? Speak Up Anyway.”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 19 July 2024:I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.
* Suggests that the reply given is the obvious or expected one.
    At my house lor. ― At my house, where else?
** 2018 September 17, Pan Jie, “Why Do We Greet Each Other By Asking, ‘Have You Eaten?’”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 2 October 2024:It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes. “Relatives lor” is the top reply, and “Small-talk with taxi drivers” emerged as a runner-up because many feel compelled to make conversation after the initial “PIE or CTE?” decision.
** 2024 February 6, Carrie Tan, “Advancing Mental Health”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 95:As a facilitator, I often ask the participants: how are you feeling now? And often, the replies I get are: "Okay lor", "Like that lor".
* Used to reinforce an opinion, sometimes in a sarcastic manner.
    Sorry lor. ― (sarcastic) Oh I’m so sorry! (begrudgingly) OK! I'm sorry!
    Ya lor / Han nor. ― Yeah (agreement)
** 2017 November 10, “‘Sorry ... what do you expect?’ says former top policeman on trial for Occupy assault”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022:A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton on instinct.

#### Derived terms

* win liao lor

### See also

* (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, mah, meh, one, sia, what

### See also

* lor mee (etymologically unrelated)

### References

* Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction‎
* Wee, Lionel (2002) “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics‎, volume 34, number 6

### Anagrams

* LRO, ORL, orl

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* a lor, loru, alor, aloru

### Etymology

From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.

### Pronoun

lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)
* their (third-personal plural possessor)

### Pronoun

lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)
* to them

### Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".

### Related terms

* (a) lui (masculine singular dative- long/stressed form)
* (a) ljei (feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
* lã (masculine/feminine plural dative- short/unstressed form)

## Breton
### Adjective

lor
* dirty

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): lo$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lo$^1$
*** Yale: lō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lo$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɔː⁵⁵/

### Particle

lor
* (Cantonese) Alternative form of 囉 / 啰 (particle)

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōrum.

### Determiner

lor (plural lors) (ORB, broad)
* their (third-personal plural possessor)

#### See also

| | | | Possessee | Possessee | Possessee | Possessee |
| | | | singular | singular | plural | plural |
| | | | m | f | m | f |
| Possessor | singular | 1st | mon | ma | mos | mes |
| Possessor | singular | 2nd | ton | ta | tos | tes |
| Possessor | singular | 3rd | son | sa | sos | ses |
| Possessor | plural | 1st | noutron | noutra | noutros | noutres |
| Possessor | plural | 2nd | voutron | voutra | voutros | voutres |
| Possessor | plural | 3rd | lor | lor | lors | lors |

### Pronoun

lor (ORB, broad)
* them (third-person plural dative or tonic)
* theirs (third-person plural possessor)

#### Notes

As a possessive pronoun, has the plural lors.

#### See also

| singular | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | jo | mè | mè | mè | min |
| 2nd person | te | tè | tè | tè | tin |
| 3rd person masculine | il | lo / le | lui | lui | sin |
| 3rd person feminine | el | la | lyé | lyé | | sin |
| 3rd person neuter | o | o | y | — | sin |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | sin |
| plural | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | nos | nos | nos | nos | noutro |
| 2nd person | vos | vos | vos | vos | voutro |
| 3rd person masculine | ils | los / les | lor | lor | lor |
| 3rd person feminine | els | les | lor / lyés | lor / lyés | | lor |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | lor |
| $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. |

### References

* leur in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* lor in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lor/, /lɔɾ/

### Preposition

lor
* at the time of (an event), at the same time as

#### Derived terms

* lora (“then, now”)
* lore (“then, at the time”)

### See also

* dum (“during, in (a period of time)”)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Javanese lor (ꦭꦺꦴꦂ), from Old Javanese lor, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of laut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔr]
* Hyphenation: lor

### Noun

lor
* (Java) north

### Further reading

* “lor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From Italian loro and French leur.

### Determiner

lor
* (possessive) their

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlor/
* Rhymes: -or
* Hyphenation: lór

### Determiner

lor
* Apocopic form of loro
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Bestemmiavano Dio e’ lor parenti, l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.God they blasphemed and their progenitors, the human race, the place, the time, the seed of their engendering and of their birth!

## Javanese
### Romanization

lor
* Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ

## Mauritian Creole
### Alternative forms

* or

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loː/

### Etymology 1

From French or.

#### Noun

lor
* Gold

### Etymology 2

From French là-haut.

#### Preposition

lor
* on
    Antonym: anba

## Old Catalan
### Alternative forms

* lur

### Etymology

In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.

### Pronoun

lor
* them (dative)
* them (accusative)

### References

* “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lor/

### Noun

lor n
* loss, destruction

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: lore

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* leur
* lur

### Etymology

From Latin illōrum.

### Pronoun

lor
* to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)
** c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:la novele lor aporte[He] brought the news to them

### Determiner

lor
* their (third-person plural possessive)
** c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:Et lor dex en ont merciés.And they thanked their gods for it.

#### Descendants

* French: leur

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).

### Noun

lor
* north
    Synonyms: uttara, sĕlatan

#### Derived terms

* kalor
* linor
* linoran
* maṅalor
* paṅaloran

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦭꦺꦴꦂ (lor, “north”)
* Balinese: ᬮᭀᬃ (lor, “north”)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lor/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)
* (also possessive determiner) their

#### Synonyms

* (less frequently used): său (masculine singular), sa (feminine singular), săi (masculine plural), sale (feminine plural)

### Pronoun

lor (dative form of ei, and ele)
* to them

#### See also

* meu
* tău
* său
* lui
* ei
* nostru
* vostru

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian لور.

### Noun

lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)
* A whey cheese similar to ricotta.

#### Declension
## Wolof
### Noun

lor (definite form lor wi)
* saliva
    Synonym: tëflit