Define:Poor
Scots eedit
Verb eedit
- (transitive) Tae cause tae flowe in a stream, as a liquid or onything flowin lik a liquid, either oot o a veshel or intae it.
Noon eedit
- (colloquial) A stream, or something lik a stream; especially a fluid o precipitation.
Inglis eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Middle Inglis povre, povere, frae Auld French (an Anglo-Norman) povre, poure (Modren French pauvre), frae Laitin pauper (Inglis pauper), frae Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), frae Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“smawness”). Cognate wi Old English fēawa (“little, few”). Displaced native Middle Inglis earm, arm (“poor”) (frae Old English earm; See arm), Middle Inglis wantsum, wantsome (“puir, needy”) (frae Auld Norse vant (“deficiency, lack, want”), Middle Inglis unlede (“puir”) (frae Old English unlǣde, Middle Inglis unweli, unwely (“puir, unwalthy”) (frae Old English un- + weliġ (“well-tae-dae, prosperous, rich”).
Pronunciation eedit
- (Australie) /poː/
- (Received Pronunciation)
- /pʊə(ɹ)/
- Audio (RP): [pɵː] (help·info)
- (US)
- /pʊɹ/
- Audio (US) (help·info)
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Adjective eedit
Poor (comparative Poorer, superlative Poorest)
- puir in quality or walth
Limburgish eedit
Etymology eedit
Noun eedit
Poor m
Auld French eedit
Noun eedit
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