Murray

See also: murray

English

Etymology

Scottish surname derived from the place name Moray in NE Scotland, probably from old Celtic "sea + settlement".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɹi/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmɜɹi/ (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
  • Rhymes: -ʌri

Proper noun

Murray

1. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
     :Scene 1:

     Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1992 Martha Grimes, The End of the Pier, page 151:

     Murray was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. Murray : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".

3. A placename
   1. A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
   2. Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
      1. A city, the county seat of Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.

Derived terms

• Murray County
• Murrayism

Translations

river in Australia

• Arabic: مُورَاي m (murāy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨累河 (zh) (Mòlèi hé)

• Hindi: मर्रे (marre)
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• Italian: Murray m
• Japanese: マレー川 (Marē-gawa)
• Korean: 머레이 강 (Meorei gang)
• Russian: Му́ррей m (Múrrej), Ма́рри f (Márri)

a male given name

• Maori: Mare
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Anagrams

• yarrum

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Italian

Proper noun

Murray m

1. Murray (river)