torn

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tôn, IPA^(key): /tɔːn/
• (General American) enPR: tôrn, IPA^(key): /tɔɹn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōrn, IPA^(key): /to(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /toən/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophone: tawn (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

torn

1. past participle of tear (rip, rend, speed).

Anagrams

• -tron, ront, tron

Etymology

From Latin tornus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾn/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtorn/

Noun

torn m (plural torns)

1. lathe, potter's wheel
2. turn, go (as in take turns or as a move in a game)

Noun

torn

1. Hard mutation of dorn.
2. Mixed mutation of dorn.

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).

Noun

torn c (singular definite tornen, plural indefinite torne)

1. thorn

References

• “torn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

torn (genitive torni, partitive torni)

1. tower

Further reading

• torn in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz (“thorn, sloe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter-. Compare Norwegian Bokmål torn, Icelandic þyrnir, Danish torn, Swedish törne, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse turn, from Middle Low German torn, from Latin turris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰɔɻɳ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɻɳ

Noun

torn n (genitive singular torns, plural torn)

1. tower

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Noun

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural torner, definite plural tornene)

1. thorn

Etymology

From Old Norse þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Danish torn, Swedish törne, Icelandic þyrnir, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, English thorn.

Noun

torn m (definite singular tornen, indefinite plural tornar, definite plural tornane)

1. thorn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torn/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“bitter”).

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *turnaz (“anger”).

Verb

torn

1. first-person singular present indicative of turna.
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of turna.
3. third-person plural present indicative of turna.

Etymology

From Old Swedish þorn, from Old Norse þorn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

torn n

1. tower
2. (chess) rook

Noun

torn m

1. (botany) thorn

See also

Chess pieces in Swedish · schackpjäser (schack + pjäser) (layout · text)
kung	drottning, dam	torn	löpare	springare, häst	bonde