English

Nora.

Alternative forms

• Norah

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name.

Derived terms

• bloody Nora
• flaming Nora
• flipping Nora

Anagrams

• Arno
• Aron
• Oran
• roan

Czech

Proper noun

Nora f

1. A female given name, cognate to Nora

Danish

Etymology

Short form of Eleonora.

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name.

Faroese

Proper noun

Nora f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Nora: Noruson
• daughter of Nora: Norudóttir

Declension

German

Etymology

Short form of Eleonora / Eleonore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoːʀa]
• Hyphenation: No‧ra

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name.

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1792. Short form of Eleonora.

Proper noun

Nora f

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Leonora

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Nora was the only given name of 853 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Etymology

Mostly a diminutive form of Eleonora, but also interpreted as a feminine form of the Old Norse given name Nóri, as a personification of Norway.

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name.
   • 1879 Henrik Ibsen, Et dukkehjem (Translated as A Doll's House by R. Farquharson Sharp), the closing lines:

     Nora! Nora! Tomt. Hun er ikke mer. Det vidunderligste — ?!

     Nora! Nora! Empty. She is gone. The most wonderful thing of all — ?

Slovak

Proper noun

Nora f

1. A female given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Nora

1. A female given name, short form of Eleonora.
2. A town in central Sweden, in the province Västmanland

Catalan

Noun

nora f ‎(plural nores)

1. daughter-in-law

Synonyms

• jove

See also

• gendre

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nora.

Noun

nora f

1. burrow

Declension

Derived terms

• norník

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese nora ‎(“daughter-in-law”), from Vulgar Latin *nora, from Latin nurus.

Noun

nora f ‎(plural noras)

1. daughter-in-law

See also

• xenro

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nora.

Noun

nora f ‎(diminutive norka)

1. den
2. burrow
3. hovel, kennel

Declension

Related terms

• nornica, nornik, norowiec, ponor

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: no‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nora ‎(“daughter-in-law”), from Latin nurus ‎(“daughter-in-law”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *nora), from Proto-Indo-European *snusós ‎(“daughter-in-law”). Cognate with Galician nora, Spanish nuera, Catalan nora, Occitan nòra, Italian nuora and Romanian noră.

Noun

nora f (plural noras)

1. daughter-in-law

See also

• genro

Etymology 2

Noun

nora f (plural noras)

1. noria (waterwheel with buckets, used to raise water)

Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nora, from Latin nurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔɾa/
• Hyphenation: no‧ra

Noun

nora f (plural nori)

1. daughter-in-law