different between coir vs noir

English

Alternative forms

• caire

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam ???? (kaya??).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophone: coyer

Noun

coir (countable and uncountable, plural coirs)

1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cori, RICO

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cair, caire, from Old Irish caire (“crime, fault, sin”), from Proto-Celtic *kariy? (compare Welsh caredd).

Noun

coir f (genitive singular coire, nominative plural coireanna)

1. crime, offence; fault, transgression
2. (used mainly in negative, of state) harm

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish coirid (“tires”), from cor m (“act of tiring; tiredness, fatigue”).

Verb

coir (present analytic coireann, future analytic coirfidh, verbal noun cor, past participle cortha)

1. (transitive, intransitive) tire, exhaust

Conjugation

Etymology 3

See coirigh.

Verb

coir (present analytic coireann, future analytic coirfidh, verbal noun {{{vn}}}, past participle {{{pp}}})

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of coirigh (“accuse, criminate”)

Conjugation

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. inflection of cor (“turn, turning movement; cast; haul from cast; lively turn; lively air; reel”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nonstandard nominative/dative plural

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. inflection of cor (“agreement, contract; guarantee, pledge”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

coir m

1. vocative/genitive singular of cor (“tiredness, exhaustion.”)

Mutation

References

• "coir" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 caire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 coirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “coir” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “coir” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Old Irish

Adjective

coïr

1. Alternative form of cóir

Mutation

Walloon

Noun

coir m

1. body

English

Etymology

Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nw??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?nw??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

noir (comparative more noir, superlative most noir)

1. (film, television) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre

Derived terms

• neo-noir
• noirish

Noun

noir (countable and uncountable, plural noirs)

1. (film and television, uncountable) Film noir.
2. (film and television, countable) A production in the style of film noir.

Anagrams

• Iron, Orin, RINO, Rion, inro, inr?, iron, nori, roin

French

Alternative forms

• Noir (for the noun with the sense "black person")

Etymology

From Middle French noir, from Old French noir, neir, from Latin nigrum, accusative of niger. Doublet of nègre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa?/
• Rhymes: -wa?

Adjective

noir (feminine singular noire, masculine plural noirs, feminine plural noires)

1. black in colour.

2. drunk; inebriated.

3. black, of black ethnicity

Noun

noir m (plural noirs, feminine noire)

1. a black person
2. a person whose hair is dark
3. dark; darkness

   Je suis seul dans le noir. - I'm alone in the dark.

Derived terms

Related terms

• noircir
• noirceur

See also

• film noir

Further reading

• “noir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French noir, neir.

Noun

noir m (uncountable)

1. black

Adjective

noir m (feminine singular noire, masculine plural noirs, feminine plural noires)

1. black

Descendants

• French: noir

Old French

Alternative forms

• neir

Etymology

From earlier neir, from Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?noi?r/

Noun

noir m (oblique plural noirs, nominative singular noirs, nominative plural noir)

1. black (color)

Adjective

noir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noire)

1. black; having a black color

Descendants

• Middle French: noir
  • French: noir
• Walloon: noer