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jor

jor noun: in Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.

Noun

jor (plural jors)

  1. In Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.

Proper noun capitalized: JOR

JOR

  1. The station code of Jordan in Hong Kong.

Forms of jor

pluraljors

Origin of jor

Borrowed from Hindustani जोर (jor) / جور (jor).

Questions about jor

What does jor mean?
Jor means in Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.
What part of speech is jor?
Jor can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of jor?
The plural of jor is jors.

Words near jor in the dictionary

  1. Joplinesque
  2. Joplins
  3. Jopp
  4. Joppa
  5. JOPs
  6. jor
  7. Jor.
  8. Jora de Mijloc
  9. joram
  10. jorams
  11. Joran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jor (page history and authors); JOR (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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