orë

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾ(ə)/

Borrowed from Latin hōra, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra). Doublet of herë.

orë f (plural orë, definite ora, definite plural orët)

1. hour (unit of time)
2. clock (timepiece)
3. watch (timepiece worn on the wrist)

• herë

From Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or- (“to move, stir, animate, fight, struggle, rise; to spring up, be born”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ὄρνῡμι (órnūmi, “urge on, incite, make to arise, call forth, move, stir oneself”), Latin orior (“to rise; to spring up, be born”), Old Norse iara (“fight”).

orë f (plural orë, definite ora, definite plural orët) (mythology)

1. mountain nymph; Albanian folk belief pictured as a woman, snake, etc. and whom lived in the mountains, forests, fields, springs or near people, helping them or giving good luck to good people and punishing bad people.

   Synonym: zanë

   Orët e maleve (e pyjeve, e fushave, e krojeve) ― Mountain (forest, field, spring) nymphs

   Të shitoftë (të preftë) ora ― May the nymph kill (cut) you! (optative, curse)

   Shkoftë ora e dëgjoftë! ― May the nymph go and hear you! (optative, wish)

   Të vdektë ora! ― May your nymph die! (optative, curse)

   Të ngrëntë (të marrtë) ora e ligë! ― May the evil nymph eat (get) you! (optative, curse)

2. (figurative, archaic) fate, luck

   ora e bardhë ― white fate

   ka orë ― he has fate

   qofsh me orë ― may you have fate (optative, wish)

   i ka prirë ora dikujt ― fate has led them

   e ka lëshuar ora ― fate has abandoned them

3. (euphemistic) Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus)

   Synonym: bollë e shtëpisë

4. to get enraged, get angry

   Synonyms: ndërkrej, (intransitive) xhindos

   i hipën (i erdhën) orët dikujt ― the fates came up to someone

5. in a bad mental state, angry, sad
6. exhausted, weary, down-hearted, weakened
7. something has ended
8. mad, crazy, fool
9. start action against someone or something
10. impulsive, spontaneous, hasty
11. (negative sense) to calm down

    i zbritën (i ranë) orët ― the fates came down

12. (archaic) lucky

    e kishte orën gjallë ― his fate was alive

13. (negative sense) to die

    e mori ora e ligë ― the evil fate took him

• “orë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980