# pore
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA: /poɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA: /pɔː/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA: /po(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /poə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophones: pour; poor (pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).

#### Noun

pore (plural pores)
* A tiny opening in the skin.
    Synonym: sweat hole
    I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
* By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
    the pores of a rock.
** 1903, Ray Smith Bassler, The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page 570:Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
** 1947, Walter Johnson, “The Rebirth of the Progressive Movement”, in William Allen White’s America, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, part IV (Normalcy and Reform), page 436:After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”

##### Derived terms

* abdominal pore
* acidopore
* anal pore
* apical germ pore
* biopore
* blastopore
* cryptopore
* dactylopore
* electropore
* gastropore
* germ pore
* gonopore
* haematomyelopore
* hemipore
* interpore
* intrapore
* isopore
* macropore
* mesopore
* micropore
* millipore
* nanopore
* nephridiopore
* nephropore
* neuropore
* nuclear pore complex
* nucleopore
* parapore
* polypore
* poration
* porefield
* poreless
* porelike
* pore space
* pore strip
* porewater
* pore water pressure
* poriferous
* porin
* poroid
* poroma
* pory
* prepore
* protopore
* sweat pore
* taste pore

##### Related terms

* porous

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *pūrian, from Proto-West Germanic *pūrōn, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Saterland Frisian puurje (“to question, investigate; pry, prod”), West Frisian poarje (“to poke, prod”), Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.

#### Verb

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)
* To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
** 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
* To meditate or reflect in a steady way.

##### Derived terms

* pore over

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope

## Cornish
### Noun

pore
* Hard mutation of bore.

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poːrə/, [ˈpʰoːɐ]

### Noun

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)
* pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

#### Inflection
## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *porëk, equivalent to por- +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈporeˣ/, [ˈpo̞re̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ore
* Hyphenation: po‧re

### Noun

pore
* bubble (gas bubble in water)
    Synonym: kupla
* area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
* (slang) speed (recreational amphetamine drug)
    Synonyms: piri, amfe, amffe, spiidi, vauhti, pöhinä, virta, vireeni, (standard) amfetamiini

#### Declension

Possessive forms of pore (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
poreeni
poreeni
accusative
nom.
poreeni
poreeni
gen.
poreeni
genitive
poreeni
poreideni poreitteni
partitive
porettani
poreitani
inessive
poreessani
poreissani
elative
poreestani
poreistani
illative
poreeseeni
poreisiini poreihini
adessive
poreellani
poreillani
ablative
poreeltani
poreiltani
allative
poreelleni
poreilleni
essive
poreenani
poreinani
translative
poreekseni
poreikseni
abessive
poreettani
poreittani
instructive
comitative
—poreineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
poreesi
poreesi
accusative
nom.
poreesi
poreesi
gen.
poreesi
genitive
poreesi
poreidesi poreittesi
partitive
porettasi
poreitasi
inessive
poreessasi
poreissasi
elative
poreestasi
poreistasi
illative
poreeseesi
poreisiisi poreihisi
adessive
poreellasi
poreillasi
ablative
poreeltasi
poreiltasi
allative
poreellesi
poreillesi
essive
poreenasi
poreinasi
translative
poreeksesi
poreiksesi
abessive
poreettasi
poreittasi
instructive
comitative
—poreinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
poreemme
poreemme
accusative
nom.
poreemme
poreemme
gen.
poreemme
genitive
poreemme
poreidemme poreittemme
partitive
porettamme
poreitamme
inessive
poreessamme
poreissamme
elative
poreestamme
poreistamme
illative
poreeseemme
poreisiimme poreihimme
adessive
poreellamme
poreillamme
ablative
poreeltamme
poreiltamme
allative
poreellemme
poreillemme
essive
poreenamme
poreinamme
translative
poreeksemme
poreiksemme
abessive
poreettamme
poreittamme
instructive
comitative
—poreinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
poreenne
poreenne
accusative
nom.
poreenne
poreenne
gen.
poreenne
genitive
poreenne
poreidenne poreittenne
partitive
porettanne
poreitanne
inessive
poreessanne
poreissanne
elative
poreestanne
poreistanne
illative
poreeseenne
poreisiinne poreihinne
adessive
poreellanne
poreillanne
ablative
poreeltanne
poreiltanne
allative
poreellenne
poreillenne
essive
poreenanne
poreinanne
translative
poreeksenne
poreiksenne
abessive
poreettanne
poreittanne
instructive
comitative
—poreinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
poreensa
poreensa
accusative
nom.
poreensa
poreensa
gen.
poreensa
genitive
poreensa
poreidensa poreittensa
partitive
porettaan porettansa
poreitaan poreitansa
inessive
poreessaan poreessansa
poreissaan poreissansa
elative
poreestaan poreestansa
poreistaan poreistansa
illative
poreeseensa
poreisiinsa poreihinsa
adessive
poreellaan poreellansa
poreillaan poreillansa
ablative
poreeltaan poreeltansa
poreiltaan poreiltansa
allative
poreelleen poreellensa
poreilleen poreillensa
essive
poreenaan poreenansa
poreinaan poreinansa
translative
poreekseen poreeksensa
poreikseen poreiksensa
abessive
poreettaan poreettansa
poreittaan poreittansa
instructive
comitative
—poreineen poreinensa :

#### Derived terms

* poreilla
* poreinen
* porettaa
* poreallas
* poreamme
* porekylpy
* poretabletti
* porevesi

### Further reading

* “pore”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* Repo, repo, rope

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔʁ/
* Homophones: porc, port

### Noun

pore m (plural pores)
* pore (small opening in the skin)
* (by extension) small opening of any kind

#### Derived terms

* poreux
* ostéoporose

### Further reading

* “pore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
* a pore (e.g. in the skin)

#### Related terms

* porøs

### References

* “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)
* a pore (e.g. in the skin)

#### Related terms

* porøs

### References

* “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pore oblique singular, m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)
* pore (small opening in skin)

## Venetan
### Adjective

pore f
* feminine plural of poro

## Yanomamö
### Noun

pore
* a type of ghost, apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages

### References

* Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN