ore

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American: ôr
  Play
• General-American: /oɹ/
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation: /ɔː/
  Play
• ōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  Play
• /o(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  Play
• /oə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
  Play
• homophone: oar
  Play
• homophone: o'er
  Play
• homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
  Play
• homophone: aw
  Play
• homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

* From Old English ora (“edge, stream bank, brink”) * For the river, a back-formation from Orford, Suffolk.

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h2éyos. Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Borrowed from Latin ora.

A southern variant of ware (“seaweed”).

Possibly originating as a figurative use of Etymology 1, with Leominster's "ore" representing the wealth of the town.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dhengritës — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Albanian: xeheror — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Arabic: رِكَاز (rikāz) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Arabic: خَامَة (ḵāma) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Armenian: հանքաքար (hankʻakʻar) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Azerbaijani: filiz — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Azerbaijani: külçə — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Basque: mea — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Belarusian: руда́ (rudá) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Bulgarian: ру́да (rúda) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Burmese: သတ္တုရိုင်း (sattu.ruing:) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Catalan: mena — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Chinese Cantonese: 礦石 /矿石 (kong3 sek6) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Hakka Chinese: 礦石 /矿石 (khóng-sa̍k) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Chinese: 礦石 /矿石 (zh-min-nan) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Chinese Mandarin: 礦石 /矿石 (kuàngshí) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Crimean Tatar: cever — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Czech: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Danish: malm — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Dutch: erts — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Elfdalian: mom — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Elfdalian: malm — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Esperanto: erco — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Estonian: maak — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Faroese: málmur — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Finnish: malmi — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• French: minerai — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Galician: mineral — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Georgian: მადანი (madani) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• German: Erz — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• German: Ärzt — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Greek: μετάλλευμα (metállevma) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Greenlandic: saviminissaq — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Hebrew: עַפְרָה (afrá) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Hindi: अयस्क (ayask) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Hungarian: érc — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Icelandic: málmgrýti — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Ido: erco — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Indonesian: bijih — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Irish: mian — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Irish: mianach — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Italian: minerale — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Japanese: 鉱石 (kōseki) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Kazakh: кентас (kentas) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Khmer: រ៉ែ (rae) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Korean: 광석 (gwangseok) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Northern Kurdish: maden — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Kyrgyz: кен таш (ken taş) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Lao: ສິນແຮ່ (sin hǣ) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Lao: ແຮ່ (hǣ) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Latgalian: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Latvian: rūda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Lithuanian: rūda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Luxembourgish: Äerz — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Macedonian: руда (ruda) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Malay: bijih — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Malayalam: അയിര് (ayirŭ) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Manchu: ᠨᡝᠮᡠ (nemu) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Māori: tokahuke — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Māori: tokakonganuku — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Marathi: धातुक (dhātuk) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Mongolian: хүдэр (xüder) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (küder) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Norwegian Bokmål: malm — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: malm — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Occitan: mena — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Church Slavic: роуда (ruda) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Old East Slavic: руда (ruda) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Old English: ora — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Pashto: معدن (ma'dan) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Persian: معدن (ma'dan) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Persian: سنگ معدن (sang-e ma'dan) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Polish: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Portuguese: minério — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Romanian: minereu — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Romansh: mineral — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Russian: руда́ (rudá) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Northern Sami: málbma — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Southern Sami: maalme — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Serbo-Croatian: ру́да — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Serbo-Croatian: rúda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Slovak: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Slovene: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Lower Sorbian: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Upper Sorbian: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Spanish: mena — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Spanish: mineral — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Swahili: mtapo — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Swedish: malm — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Tagalog: dukalin — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Tagalog: dulang — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Tajik: маъдан (ma'dan) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Telugu: ఖనిజము (khanijamu) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Thai: แร่ (rɛ̂ɛ) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Thai: สินแร่ (sǐn-rɛ̂ɛ) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Turkish: maden — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Ottoman Turkish: معدن (maʿden) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Ottoman Turkish: جوهر (cevher) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Turkmen: magdan — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Ukrainian: руда́ (rudá) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Uzbek: ruda — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Vietnamese: quặng — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Volapük: mün — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Welsh: mwyn — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Yiddish: אַרץ — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
• Yiddish: רודע (rude) — rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed