different between dor vs dob

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??(?)/

Etymology 1

From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er-, *d?r?n- (“bee, hornet, drone”).

Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English dr?n (“drone”). More at drone.

Alternative forms

• dorr

Noun

dor (plural dors)

1. A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying
2. Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dumbledore

Etymology 2

Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.

Noun

dor (plural dors)

1. (obsolete) a trick, joke, or deception

   • To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?

Anagrams

• DRO, ODR, Ord, RDO, Rod, dro, ord, rod

Afrikaans

Adjective

dor (attributive dorre, comparative dorder, superlative dorste)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• doru

Etymology 1

From Latin dole?. Compare Romanian durea.

Verb

dor (third-person singular present indicative doari or doare, past participle durutã)

1. I hurt, ache.

Usage notes

Usually used reflexively (e.g. "mi doari"- it hurts/pains (me)), as with the Romanian cognate, which is only conjugated in the 3rd person.

Related terms

Etymology 2

Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek ????? (dólos). Compare Romanian dor.

Noun

dor

1. longing, desire, want
2. love
3. passion
4. pain, suffering

See also

• vreari

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton dor, from Proto-Brythonic *dor (compare Welsh dôr), from Proto-Celtic *dw?r, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r.

Noun

dor f (plural dorioù)

1. door

Mutation

Note: it is the last remnant of nasal mutation in Breton, and becomes "an nor".

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• dort

Etymology

From earlier dort, from Middle High German dort, from Old High German dorot, doret (“there”). Cognate with German dort (“there, yonder”).

Preposition

dor

1. (Sette Comuni) through, across, along

References

• “dor” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?e??-.

Noun

dor m (plural dorow)

1. ground, earth
2. Earth

Usage notes

(Earth): undergoes irregular mutation after definite article when referring to the Earth: an nor

Derived terms

• aval dor (“potato”)
• aval dor brewys (“mashed potato”)
• know dor (“peanuts”)

Mutation

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dorre, from Old Dutch *thurri, from Proto-West Germanic *þur??, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?r/
• Hyphenation: dor
• Rhymes: -?r

Adjective

dor (comparative dorder, superlative dorst)

1. dry, wilted (having a relatively low or no liquid content)

Inflection

Derived terms

• dorheid
• dorren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dor

Galician

Alternative forms

• delor, dolor

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese door, from Latin dolor, dol?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?o??]

Noun

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain

   Synonym: pena

2. grief

   Synonyms: pena, mágoa

Related terms

References

• “door” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “door” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “dor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “dor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “dor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Verb

dor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of d?

Middle Dutch

Preposition

dor

1. Alternative form of d?re

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dur?.

Cognate with Old Saxon dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic ???????????????? (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old English duru, German Tür). Indo-European cognates include Greek ???? (thyra), Latin foris, Lithuanian dùrys, Old Church Slavonic ????? (dv?r?) (Russian ????? (dver?)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?r/

Noun

d?r n

1. a large door, a gate

Declension

Related terms

• duru

Descendants

• Middle English: dor, dore
  • English: door

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dur?.

Cognate with Old English dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic ???????????????? (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old Saxon duru, German Tür).

Noun

dor n

1. a gate, a large door

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese door (“pain”), from Latin dolor, dol?rem, from Old Latin *dol?s, from Proto-Indo-European *delh?- (“to hew, split”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?do?/, /?dox/, /?doh/, /?do?/, /?do/, /?do?/, /?do?/, /?do?/, /?dor/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [?d?o?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

dor f (plural dores)

1. pain (physical or emotional)

Related terms

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: dór

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (dor) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Bengali [Term?].

Noun

dor (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. price

   Synonyms: dam, kimot

Romanian

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”); alternatively, and less likely, from dolus (“trickery, deception”), from Ancient Greek ????? (dólos). Compare Spanish duelo (“sorrow, mourning”), French deuil (“bereavement”).

Noun

dor n (plural doruri)

1. longing

Declension

Derived terms

• dori

Related terms

• durea

References

Tolai

Pronoun

dor

1. First-person inclusive dual pronoun: you (singular) and I, you (singular) and me

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?r/

Verb

dor

1. Soft mutation of tor.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, and Britain) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.

   I’ll dob on you if you break in.

   You dobbed me in! — I never did!

   • 1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107,

     Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.

   • 1998, Supreme Court of Victoria, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 4, page 372,

     The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.

   • 2006, Ian Findley, Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools, page 67,

     Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.

2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

   We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

   • 1968, Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher, Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story, page 80,

     He?d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly, […] .

   • 1976, Margaret Paice, Colour in the Creek, page 53,

     The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.

3. (slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.

   I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.

   • 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108,

     Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It?s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.

   • 2001, Kerreen M. Reiger, Sheila Kitzinger, Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement, page 153,

     Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.

4. (slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant

Usage notes

(all senses): Most often used with "in" or "on".

Synonyms

• (report a person): See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Derived terms

• dobber

Noun

dob (plural dobs)

1. A small amount of something, especially paste.

   Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

   • 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),

     ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dob.

Related terms

• dab

Etymology 2

Initialism.

Noun

dob

1. Initialism of date of birth.

Alternative forms

• DOB

Etymology 3

Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
   • 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)

     I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

Anagrams

• BOD, Bod, bod

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

dob

1. genitive plural of doba

Anagrams

• bod

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dob]
• Hyphenation: dob
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *t?mp?- (“to throw down, to strike (with a clapping sound)”).

Verb

dob

2. (transitive, intransitive) to throw, to cast (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air)

   Synonyms: hajít, vet
3. (transitive, intransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
4. (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
5. (transitive, computing) to throw (to send an error)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dobál
• dobás

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• piacra dob

Etymology 2

Probably an onomatopoeia.

Noun

dob (plural dobok)

2. drum (a percussive musical instrument)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Irish

Alternative forms

• dob' (superseded)

Particle

dob

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of b’

Usage notes

• This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dob?.

Noun

d?b f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. age

Declension

Related terms

• kameno doba

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dó?p/

Noun

d??b m inan

1. oak

Inflection

Synonyms

• hrást

Noun

dôb

1. genitive dual/plural of dóba

Further reading

• “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran