different between chinese vs koro

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• chinese garter
• Chinese garter

Noun

chinese

1. A narrow strip of rubber, usually a meter long, used in various jumping games.
2. A game using this garter.

Corsican

Noun

chinese

1. Chinese

English

Etymology

Possibly from Makasar garring koro' (lit. koro illness, "shrinking of the toilet", Matthes 1859), Buginese, or Malay. See "Koro § Etymology and geographical background" at Wikipedia for a full discussion.

Noun

koro (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.

References

• Mathes B. F. (1859). Makassaarsch-Hollandsch Woordenboek. Amsterdam: Het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap te Amsterdam, p. 43 ("inkrimping van het gemak").

Anagrams

• Kroo, kroo, roko, rook

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin cor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koro/
• Hyphenation: ko?ro

Noun

koro (accusative singular koron, plural koroj, accusative plural korojn)

1. heart
2. clapper (tongue of a bell)

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *koro, from Proto-Oceanic *koro (compare Tongan kolo).

Noun

koro

1. town
2. village (use koro lailai to specify that it's smaller in size than a town)
3. settlement

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koro/, [?ko?ro?]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: ko?ro

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skur?.

Noun

koro

1. (heraldry) line of partition, line
2. (botany) open scar

Declension

Etymology 2

Back-formation from korottaa.

Noun

koro

1. (ballistics) elevation (angle)

Declension

Anagrams

• orko

Fur

Noun

koro (plurale tantum)

1. water

References

• Angelika Jakobi, A Fur Grammar: Phonology, Morphophonology, and Morphology (1990)
• Arthur Charles Beaton, A grammar of the Fur language (1968)

Japanese

Romanization

koro

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Khoekhoe

Numeral

koro

1. five

Lindu

Noun

koro

1. body
2. self

Maori

Noun

koro (used in the form koro-a)

1. grandfather

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kòro f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of kòru

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.r?/

Noun

koro f

1. vocative singular of kora

Rapa Nui

Noun

koro

1. (archaic) father

Usage notes

Considered archaic; the following are preferred:

• matu'a tamaaroa
• matu'a tane