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sora
English
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “presumably from an Indigenous American language”)
Noun
sora (plural soras)
- A rail (Porzana carolina) of North, Central, and northern South America.
Translations
Anagrams
- AORs, AoRs, ORAS, ROSA, Raos, Raso, Roas, Rosa, Soar, aros, oars, oras, osar, rosa, soar
Faroese
Verb
sora (third person singular past indicative soraði, third person plural past indicative sorað, supine sorað)
- to smash
Conjugation
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sora, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *?ora, ultimately probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sor?/, [?s?o?r?]
- Rhymes: -or?
- Syllabification: so?ra
Noun
sora
- gravel
Declension
Anagrams
- Rosa, oras
Hungarian
Etymology
sor +? -a (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??or?]
- Hyphenation: so?ra
Noun
sora
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of sor
Declension
Japanese
Romanization
sora
- R?maji transcription of ??
Lombard
Etymology
From sopra.
Adverb
sora
- above
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin soror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r?/
Noun
sora
- sister
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?so.ra/
Noun
sora f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of sor?
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Puter, Vallader) sour
Etymology
From Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r.
Noun
sora f (plural soras)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sister
Coordinate terms
- (in terms of gender):
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frar
- (Puter) frer
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sorta
English
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of sort of.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??t?/, [?s????]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??t?/, [?s??t?]
Adverb
sorta (not comparable)
- (informal) Contraction of sort of.
- The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
- 1912, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 60, page 680,
- 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. […] '
- 1993 July, Sort of a Hero, in Boys' Life, page 34,
- In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
Synonyms
- kinda
Translations
Contraction
sorta (plural sortsa)
- (colloquial) Sort of.
- There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
- 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97,
- He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"
- "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.
Anagrams
- Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, roast, rotas, taros, tarso-
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r?ta/
- Rhymes: -?r?ta
Noun
sorta f (genitive singular sortu, nominative plural sortur)
- black dye
Declension
Derived terms
- sortulyng (“common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi”)
Related terms
- sorti (“darkness; dark weather”)
- sortna (“to darken”)
- svartur (“black”)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sor.ta/
- Rhymes: -?rta
- Rhymes: -orta
Noun
sorta f (plural sorte)
- sort, type, kind
Verb
sorta
- feminine singular past participle of sorgere
Anagrams
- astro, sarto, starò, tarso
Romanian
Etymology
From German sortieren
Verb
a sorta (third-person singular present sorteaz?, past participle sortat) 1st conj.
- to sort
Conjugation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Sorte and/or Italian sorta; all eventually from Latin sors. See English sort for more.
Noun
s?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- sort, kind
Declension
Veps
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
sorta
- to bring down, to knock down
- to cut down, to chop down, to fell
- to drop (by accident)
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????, ??????, ???????, ???????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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