nor

Clipping of English Norwegian or Norwegian norsk.

nor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Norwegian terms

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (General American) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /nɔɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: gnaw (non-rhotic)

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither. By surface analysis, not +‎ or.

nor

1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

   They are happy, nor need we worry.

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman:

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:

     The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
     Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     But neither breath of Morn when she ascends / With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun / On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, / Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; / Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night / With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 27 October 2020, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   • 2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, ““Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t”, in Big Think‎^[2]:

     For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]

3. (archaic) Neither.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

4. Used to introduce a further negative statement.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.

   I hardly spoke with nor listened to anybody else.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

5. (UK, dialect) Than.

   He's no better nor you.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

• neither

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR.

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

nor

1. alternative form of norã

• IPA^(key): /nor/ [nor]
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: nor

From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.^[1]

nor (interrogative)

1. who

   Nor da? ― Who is he/she?

   Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.

   Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?

From the interrogative pronoun.

nor (indeclinable)

1. (grammatical term) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

   Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.

• “nor”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “nor”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• (Langrois) no

Inherited from Old French noir, from Latin nigrum.

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/

nor m (feminine nore, plural nors)

1. (Troyen, Langrois) black

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[3] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[4] (in French), Troyes

• IPA^(key): [ˈnor]

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

From Old Danish nor, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz. Related to narv and English narrow.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoˀɐ̯]

nor n (singular definite noret, plural indefinite nor)

1. narrow strait

• vig
• fjord

• “nor” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “nor” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, compare brommen (“to do time”).

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevang, gevangenis, lik

From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.

nor m

1. cloud

• nord (continental, Guernsey, Jersey)

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: nor

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

• nour — regional, Moldavia (region)
• noor — regional, Oltenia
• nuor, nuvăr — regional, Banat
• nuar — archaic, obsolete

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Spanish nube, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol, Provençal nyiuro, niora.

• IPA^(key): [nor]

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nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

• (a se) înnora
• noros
• zgârie-nori

From German Narr.

• IPA^(key): /nɔ́r/

nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)

1. crazy, insane, mad

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	nòr	nôra	nôro
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nòr ind nôri def	nôra	nôro
genitive	nôrega	nôre	nôrega
dative	nôremu	nôri	nôremu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	nôro	nôro
locative	nôrem	nôri	nôrem
instrumental	nôrim	nôro	nôrim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nôra	nôri	nôri
genitive	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
dative	nôrima	nôrima	nôrima
accusative	nôra	nôri	nôri
locative	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
instrumental	nôrima	nôrima	nôrima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nôri	nôre	nôra
genitive	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
dative	nôrim	nôrim	nôrim
accusative	nôre	nôre	nôra
locative	nôrih	nôrih	nôrih
instrumental	nôrimi	nôrimi	nôrimi

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Inherited from Old Swedish nor, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz. Cognate with English narrow.

• IPA^(key): /nuːr/

nor n

1. narrow strait

• nor in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• nor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• ron

From Proto-Finnic *noora.

nor

1. rope

Inflection of nor (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	nor
genitive sing.	noran
partitive sing.	norad
partitive plur.	norid
	singular	plural
nominative	nor	norad
accusative	noran	norad
genitive	noran	noriden
partitive	norad	norid
essive-instructive	noran	norin
translative	noraks	norikš
inessive	noras	noriš
elative	noraspäi	norišpäi
illative	noraha	norihe
adessive	noral	noril
ablative	noralpäi	norilpäi
allative	norale	norile
abessive	norata	norita
comitative	noranke	noridenke
prolative	noradme	noridme
approximative I	noranno	noridenno
approximative II	norannoks	noridennoks
egressive	norannopäi	noridennopäi
terminative I	norahasai	norihesai
terminative II	noralesai	norilesai
terminative III	norassai	—
additive I	norahapäi	norihepäi
additive II	noralepäi	norilepäi

nor

1. alternative form of noor
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:

     Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.

     May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:

     Mee piggès, mee geearthès, nor nodhing threeve,

     My pigs, my goats, nor nothing thrive,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 100