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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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  1. gravel

Declension

Anagrams

  • Rosa, oras

Hungarian

Etymology

sor +? -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??or?]
  • Hyphenation: so?ra

Noun

sora

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of sor

Declension


Japanese

Romanization

sora

  1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lombard

Etymology

From sopra.

Adverb

sora

  1. above

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?r?/

Noun

sora

  1. sister

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?so.ra/

Noun

sora f

  1. 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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. sort, type, kind

Verb

sorta

  1. 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 sortat1st conj.

  1. 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 ??????)

  1. sort, kind

Declension


Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

sorta

  1. to bring down, to knock down
  2. to cut down, to chop down, to fell
  3. 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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