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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

pore

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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  (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /pɔɹ/
  


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  (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /pɔː/
  


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  (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹ/
  


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  (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poə/
  


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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  


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  Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
  

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.


2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

Related terms

• porous

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to 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)

1. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10
     

     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.

     
     
   
   


2. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Derived terms

• pore over

Translations

Anagrams

• 
  Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope
  

Cornish

Noun

pore

1. 
   Hard mutation of bore.

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  IPA^(key): /poːrə/, [ˈpʰoːɐ]
  

Noun

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)

1. 
   pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
   

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

From por +‎ -e.

Noun

pore

1. 
   bubble (gas bubble in water)
   


2. An area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake.

Declension

Synonyms

• 
  (bubble): kupla
  

Anagrams

• 
  Repo, repo, rope
  

French

Etymology

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

Noun

pore m (plural pores)

1. 
   pore (small opening in skin)


2. by extension, small openings

Further reading

• “pore” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

pore

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

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

Noun

pore f, m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. 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)

1. 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 m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)

1. 
   pore (small opening in skin)

Venetian

Adjective

pore f

1. feminine plural of poro