# fora
## English
### Noun

fora
* plural of forum (alternative form of forums).
** 2010 October 14, United Nations, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1945:Welcomes the Committee’s work, which has drawn on the reports of the Panel of Experts and taken advantage of the work done in other fora, to draw attention to the responsibilities of private sector actors in conflict affected areas;

#### Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

### References

* ↑ Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).

### Further reading

* forums, fora at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Anagrams

* Afro, Afro-, Faro, Fårö, RAFO, afro, faro

## Albanian
### Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Greek φόρα (fóra, “pace; impetus”), compare the expression παίρνω φόρα (paírno fóra, “gain courage”).
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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfoɾa/
* Rhymes: -oɾa

### Adverb

fora
* (colloquial) daringly, boldly, bravely
    Synonym: trimërisht

### References

* “fóra”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 493b

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin forās (“outside”) (compare Occitan fòra, French hors, Spanish fuera), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door; gate”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɔ.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfɔ.ɾa]

#### Preposition

fora
* out, outside
    Antonyms: dins, dintre

##### Derived terms

* afores
* forabord
* fora-d'hores
* fora de servei

#### Adverb

fora
* outside
    Antonyms: dins, dintre
* away

##### Derived terms

* fer fora
* fora de sèrie

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* fóra (pre-2016 spelling)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfo.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfo.ɾa]

#### Verb

fora
* first/third-person singular conditional of ésser
* first/third-person singular conditional of ser

### Further reading

* “fora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fora”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “fora” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fora
* plural of forum

## Esperanto
### Etymology

for +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈfora]
* Rhymes: -ora
* Hyphenation: fo‧ra

### Adjective

fora (accusative singular foran, plural foraj, accusative plural forajn)
* far, distant

#### Related terms

* fordoni
* fordormi
* foresti
* forflugi
* forigi
* foriĝi
* foriri
* forĵeti
* forkomenti
* forkuri
* forlasi
* formeti
* formorti
* forpasi
* forpeli
* forporti
* forpreni
* forpuŝi
* forrabi
* forstreki
* foruzi
* forvendi
* forveturi

## French
### Verb

fora
* third-person singular past historic of forer

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

#### Verb

fora
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

#### Verb

fora
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

## Ido
### Adjective

fora
* distant

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfora/
* Hyphenation: fo‧ra

### Noun

fora
* Nonstandard form of forum.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra
* Hyphenation: fò‧ra

#### Preposition

fora
* (archaic, literary) Alternative form of fuori
** out, outside, outwards (towards the outside)
*** 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, line 90; 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:Or che di là dal mal fiume dimora, più muover non mi può, per quella legge che fatta fu quando me n’usci’ fora.Now that she [​Marcia​] dwells beyond the wicked river, she can no longer move me, by that law which was made when I came out of there.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ra/, (traditional) /ˈfo.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra, (traditional) -ora
* Hyphenation: fò‧ra, (traditional) fó‧ra

#### Verb

fora
* inflection of forare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ foro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* afro, afro-, faro, farò

## Latin
### Noun

fora
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of forum

### References

* "fora", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin forās

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈfɔːrə]
* (Castelmezzano) IPA: [ˈfoːră]

### Adverb

fora
* outside

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 356: “di dentro e di fuori” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* forumer (of forum)
* forene (of for)

### Noun

fora n
* indefinite plural of forum
* definite plural of for

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From for, fòr (“furrow”).

#### Alternative forms

* fore, fòra, fòre

#### Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fora/for)
* to furrow

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse fóðra.

#### Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fora/for)
* Alternative form of fôre

### Etymology 3

From for, fôr (“lining of clothes”).

#### Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fora/for)
* Alternative form of fôre

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

fora f
* singular definite of for
* singular definite of for
* singular definite of fore
* singular definite of fore

#### Noun

fora n
* plural definite of for
* plural definite of for

#### Noun

fora n pl (non-standard since 2012)
* inflection of forum:
** plural indefinite
** plural definite

### References

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fora”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old English
### Noun

fōra
* nominative/accusative/genitive plural of fōr

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* for, fore

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *forē, whence also Old English fore.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfo.ra/

### Preposition

fora (+ dative)
* before, against, in the presence of

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: vor, vore
** Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: vóar, bóar (Mezzaselva)
    Mòcheno: vour
** Central Franconian: vür
** German: vor

### References

* Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɸora]

### Etymology 1

Univerbation of for (“on”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

#### Determiner

fora (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)
* on his/her/its/their
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 97$^d$10
    Is peccad díabul lesom .i. fodord doib di dommatu, ⁊ du·fúairthed ní leu fora sáith din main, ⁊ todlugud inna féulæ ɔ amairis nánda·tibérad Día doïb, ⁊ nach coimnacuir ⁊ issi dano insin ind frescissiu co fochaid.It is a double sin in his opinion, i.e. the murmuring by them of want, although there remained some of the manna with them upon their satiety, and demanding the meat with faithlessness that Good would not give it to them, and [even] that he could not; therefore that is the expectation with testing.

### Etymology 2

for (“on”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

#### Pronoun

fora·
* on whom/which
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4$^d$15
    In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora·tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* for, fore, fur, far

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *forē, whence also Old English fore; from Proto-Germanic *furai.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.rɑ/

### Preposition

fora (+ dative)
* before, against
* in front of
** Heliand, verse 2026-2027
    Te huī sprikis thū thes wīf, sō filu manos mī far thesoro mėnigi?Why do you speak of that, woman, so much (you) remind me pressingly in front of this crowd?

#### Synonyms

* biforan
* withar
* with

#### Descendants

* German Low German: för, vär, veer, ver (Low Prussian), vör, vœr

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin forās (“outside”).

### Adverb

fora
* outside

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra
* Syllabification: fo‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fuora.

#### Interjection

fora
* (archaic) get out!
    Synonyms: precz, won, paszoł won, fora ze dwora
* (obsolete) encore!
    Synonym: bis

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

fora
* nominative plural of forum
* accusative plural of forum
* vocative plural of forum

### References

* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “fora”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

### Further reading

* fora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese fora, from Latin forās (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door; gate”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
* Hyphenation: fo‧ra

#### Adverb

fora (not comparable)
* outside (on the outside of a building or location)
    Fiquei trancado fora da minha casa. ― I got locked outside my house.
* abroad; overseas (in another country)
    Morei fora por dois anos. ― I lived abroad for two years.
* out (away from home or one’s usual place)
    Hoje jantarei fora. ― Today I’ll dine out.
* away (to be discarded)
    Joga esse lixo fora. ― Throw away this trash.

##### Derived terms

* afora
* dar o fora
* de fora a fora
* e por aí fora
* fora da lei
* fora de
* por fora

#### Preposition

fora
* except (with the exception of)
    Synonym: exceto
    Todos leram o livro, fora o João. ― Everyone read the book, except John.

#### Noun

fora m (plural foras)
* (Brazil, colloquial) rejection of a romantic proposal

#### Interjection

fora!
* out! (demanding that someone leave)
    Synonyms: andor, rua

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese fora, from Latin fueram (1st person) and fuerat (3rd person), inflected forms of sum (“to be”).

#### Alternative forms

* fôra (pre-reform spelling)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfo.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -oɾɐ
* Hyphenation: fo‧ra

#### Verb

fora
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French forer, from Latin forare.

### Verb

a fora (third-person singular present forează, past participle forat) 1st conjugation
* to drill

#### Conjugation
## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* fori

### Etymology

From Latin foras.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔra/
* Hyphenation: fò‧ra

### Adverb

fora
* outside
* outdoors

#### Antonyms

* dintra

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Arabic فَوْرَة (fawra, “outburst; excitement”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

fora class IX (plural fora class X)
* a win, success

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish fora (“journey”); see föra (“to transport, move objects”). Also related to fara (“to go, travel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fuːra/

### Noun

fora c
* transported cargo; possibly including the vehicle or carriage on which the cargo is loaded

#### Derived terms

* timmerfora

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan fora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfo.ɾa/
* Hyphenation: fo‧ra

### Noun

fora (definite accusative forayı, plural foralar)
* (nautical) The act of unfurling sails.

#### Derived terms

* fora etmek

#### Related terms

* forum

### Interjection

fora!
* (nautical) The command given to unfurl sails.

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fora”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “fora”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fora”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1697

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin forās (“outside”).

### Adverb

fora
* outside

### Preposition

fora
* outside, outwith