# kore
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɔəɹeɪ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈkoɹeɪ/

### Noun

kore (plural korai or kores)
* (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, 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, 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, page 9:Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.

#### Coordinate terms

* kouros (statue of a male)

#### Related terms

* korephilia

#### Further reading

* Kore (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* kero, oker, roke

## Afrikaans
### Noun

kore
* plural of koor

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* korë, korie

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoɾe/
* Rhymes: -oɾe
* Hyphenation: kó‧re

#### Noun

kore f (plural kore, definite korja, definite plural koret)
* scrub, crust (of baked products, wounds)
* tree bark
* (technical) brain cortex, Earth crust
* scab (crust on a wound)
    Synonym: dregëz

##### Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

##### Related terms

* kërce
* koriçkë
* kothere

### Etymology 2

From Latin cichorēum ~ cichorium.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoɾe/
* Rhymes: -oɾe
* Hyphenation: kó‧re

#### Noun

kore f (plural kore, definite korea)
* chicory
    Synonyms: bresë, radhiqe

### Etymology 3

From koris.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈɾe/
* Rhymes: -ɾe
* Hyphenation: ko‧ré

#### Noun

kore f
* (Gheg) shame, disgrace
    Synonyms: turp, marre

##### Related terms

* kori
* korishtoj
* korit
* koritem
* koritje
* koritun

### Etymology 4

Possibly from Latin quartus.

#### Noun

kore f
* (Tosk) quarter
    Synonym: çerek

### Etymology 5

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

#### Noun

kore f
* bogey, scarecrow, mask
    Synonyms: dordolec, surrat

### Etymology 6

From Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris, “bedbug”) or Greek κοριός (koriós).

#### Noun

kore m (definite koreu)
* (Arvanitika) bedbug

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kore”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191

### Further reading

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

## Esperanto
### Etymology

koro +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkore]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ore
* Hyphenation: ko‧re

### Adverb

kore
* 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)

## Finnish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkore/, [ˈko̞re̞]
* Rhymes: -ore
* Hyphenation: ko‧re

### Noun

kore
* kore (Greek sculpture)

#### Declension

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.

#### Synonyms

* kore-veistos

### Anagrams

* kero

## Hausa

Other scripts :
| Ajami | کُورٜىٰ |

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kóː.rèː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [kʷóː.rèː]

### Adjective

kōr̃ḕ (feminine kōr̃ìyā, plural kōr̃ā̀yē or kwâr̃r̃ā)
* green

## Japanese
### Romanization

kore
* Rōmaji transcription of これ

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese correr.

### Verb

kore
* to run
* to race
* to hurry

## Latvian
### Noun

kore f (5th declension)
* ridge
* gable
* comb
* crest
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

#### Declension
## Maori
### Adjective

kore
* without (not having)

### Numeral

kore
* zero

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

kore (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kore/kor)
* to choir

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese correr and Spanish correr and Kabuverdianu kori and Kabuverdianu kore.

### Verb

kore
* to flow
* to run

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

kore (Cyrillic spelling коре)
* third-person plural present indicative of koriti

## Ternate
### Noun

kore
* wind (movement of air)

#### Derived terms

* simote kore

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh

## Yilan Creole
### Etymology

From Japanese これ (kore, “this”).

### Pronoun

kore
* this (person or object)

#### Coordinate terms

* kore, are, dore
* koci, aci, doko
* kono, ano, dono
* konna no, anna no, donna no
* konnasite, annasite, donnasite

### References

* 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]‎, volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65