chore

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• Received-Pronunciation: chô
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• Received-Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔː/
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• General-American: chôr
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• General-American: /t͡ʃoɹ/
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• chōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /t͡ʃo(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /t͡ʃoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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• General-American: /t͡ʃɔɹ/
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ċerr, ċierr (“a turn”), from ċierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon kērian, Old High German chēran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Possibly derived from Romani ćor (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَمَلٌ رُوتِينِيّ (ʕamalun rūtīniyy) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Bulgarian: неприя́тна ра́бота (neprijátna rábota) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese Cantonese: 家務 /家务 (gaa1 mou6) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese Cantonese: 家事 (gaa1 si6) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese: 家務 /家务 (ka-bū) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese: 家事 (zh-min-nan) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese Mandarin: 家務 /家务 (jiāwù) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese Mandarin: 家事 (jiāshì) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Chinese Mandarin: 苦差事 (kǔchāishi) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Dutch: taak — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Esperanto: farotaĵo — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Finnish: taloustyö — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Finnish: askare — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Finnish: puuha — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• French: corvée — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• French: tâche — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Galician: tarefa — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• German: leidige Aufgabe — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• German: lästige Pflicht — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• German: Hausarbeit (homework) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• German: häusliche Arbeit — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Greek: αγγαρεία (angareía) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Ancient Greek: ἀγγαρεία (angareía) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Hebrew: מַטָּלָה (matalá) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Hungarian: házimunka — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Ido: tasketo — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Italian: corvè — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Japanese: 雑用 (zatsuyō) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Japanese: 家事 (kaji) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Japanese: 雑務 (zatsumu) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Korean: 가사 (gasa) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Korean: 허드렛일 (heodeuresil) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Norwegian Bokmål: hverdagsrutine — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Norwegian Bokmål: plikt — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Polish: zadanie — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Portuguese: tarefa — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Portuguese: porre — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Romanian: muncă casnică — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Russian: рути́нная рабо́та (rutínnaja rabóta) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Russian: дома́шняя рабо́та (domášnjaja rabóta) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Russian: неприя́тная рабо́та (neprijátnaja rabóta) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Russian: обя́занность (objázannostʹ) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Spanish: mandado — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Spanish: tarea — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Spanish: faena — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Swedish: (tråkigt) rutinarbete — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Swedish: (tråkig) rutinuppgift — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task
• Telugu: చాకిరీ (cākirī) — a difficult, unpleasant, or routine task