pore

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• Received-Pronunciation: pô
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɔː(ɹ)/
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• General-American: pôr
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• General-American: /poɹ/
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• pōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /po(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /poə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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• homophone: pour
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• homophone: poor (pour–poor merger)
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• homophone: paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: P AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

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.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَسَام (masām) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Arabic: مسام (masaam) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Bashkir: күҙәнәк (küźənək) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Belarusian: по́ра (póra) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Bulgarian: по́ра (póra) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Catalan: porus — a tiny opening in the skin
• Catalan: por — a tiny opening in the skin
• Chinese Mandarin: 毛孔 (máokǒng) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Coptic: ⲥⲓⲗⲓ (sili) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Czech: pór — a tiny opening in the skin
• Danish: pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Dutch: porie — a tiny opening in the skin
• Esperanto: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Finnish: huokonen — a tiny opening in the skin
• French: pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Galician: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Georgian: ფორი (pori) — a tiny opening in the skin
• German: Pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Greek: πόρος (póros) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Ancient Greek: πόρος (póros) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Hungarian: pórus — a tiny opening in the skin
• Ido: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Indonesian: pori — a tiny opening in the skin
• Irish: póir — a tiny opening in the skin
• Irish: piochán — a tiny opening in the skin
• Italian: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: -線 (-sen) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: -孔 (-kou) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: 小孔 (shōkō) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: 毛穴 (keana) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: 皮脂腺 (hishi-sen) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Japanese: 気孔 (stoma) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Korean: 기공 (gigong) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Northern Kurdish: kunik — a tiny opening in the skin
• Malayalam: സുഷിരം (suṣiraṁ) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Māori: pōnaho — a tiny opening in the skin
• Norwegian Bokmål: pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Norwegian Bokmål: pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pore — a tiny opening in the skin
• Old English: swātþȳrel — a tiny opening in the skin
• Old English: līcþēote — a tiny opening in the skin
• Polish: por — a tiny opening in the skin
• Old Polish: sierotki — a tiny opening in the skin
• Portuguese: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Russian: по́ра (póra) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Slovak: pór — a tiny opening in the skin
• Spanish: poro — a tiny opening in the skin
• Swedish: por — a tiny opening in the skin
• Tagalog: kilit — a tiny opening in the skin
• Tagalog: kilit ng balat — a tiny opening in the skin
• Tocharian B: klokaśce — a tiny opening in the skin
• Turkish: gözenek — a tiny opening in the skin
• Ukrainian: по́ра (póra) — a tiny opening in the skin
• Vietnamese: lỗ chân lông — a tiny opening in the skin
• Bulgarian: пора (pora) — by extension any small opening
• Finnish: huokonen — by extension any small opening
• French: pore — by extension any small opening
• Galician: poro — by extension any small opening
• Greek: πόρος (póros) — by extension any small opening
• Hungarian: nyílás — by extension any small opening
• Irish: póir — by extension any small opening
• Japanese: -線 (-sen) — by extension any small opening
• Malayalam: സുഷിരം (suṣiraṁ) — by extension any small opening
• Māori: pōnaho — by extension any small opening
• Portuguese: poro — by extension any small opening
• Russian: по́ра (póra) — by extension any small opening
• Swedish: por — by extension any small opening
• Czech: podrobně studovat — to study meticulously
• Czech: podrobně prostudovat — to study meticulously
• Japanese: 熟考する (jukkō suru) — to study meticulously
• Japanese: 熟慮する (jukuryo suru) — to study meticulously
• Māori: whakatatare — to study meticulously
• Polish: ślęczeć — to study meticulously
• Russian: тща́тельно изуча́ть (tščátelʹno izučátʹ) — to study meticulously
• Russian: корпе́ть (korpétʹ) — to study meticulously
• Welsh: craffu — to study meticulously
• Welsh: pori — to study meticulously
• Bulgarian: обмислям (obmisljam) — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Czech: hloubat — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Czech: dumat — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Japanese: 熟考する (jukkō suru) — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Japanese: 熟慮する (jukuryo suru) — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Russian: размышля́ть (razmyšljátʹ) — to meditate or reflect in a steady way
• Russian: разду́мывать (razdúmyvatʹ) — to meditate or reflect in a steady way