moe

See also: Moe, MOE, MoE, moé, mö, and -mö

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”).

Alternative forms

Wikipe-tan, a moe personification of Wikipedia

• moé

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ.eɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /moʊ.eɪ/
• Rhymes: -əʊeɪ, -oʊeɪ

Noun

moe (uncountable)

1. (slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.

Derived terms

• figure moe zoku
• moe anthropomorphism

Related terms

• moekko
• moe sangyo
• moetan

See also

• Moe (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

Adverb

moe

1. Obsolete form of mo.
2. Obsolete form of more.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.

   • c. 1572, George Gascoigne, Woodmanship

     The crafty courtiers with their guileful looks,
     Must needs put some experience in my maw:
     Yet cannot these with many mast'ries moe
     Make me shoot straight at any gainful prick […]

Noun

moe

1. Obsolete form of mow (“wry face, grimace”).
2. Obsolete form of moa.

Verb

moe

1. Obsolete form of moo.
2. Obsolete form of mow (“to make faces”).

Anagrams

• 'ome, -ome, EOM, Emo, Meo, OEM, OME, emo

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Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ماء‎ (māʾ).

Noun

moe (plural moyát)

1. water

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: moe
• Rhymes: -u

Etymology 1

From moede with loss of -d-, from Middle Dutch moede (“tired, loath”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōþī, from Old Dutch muothi (“tired”), from Proto-Germanic *mōþaz. Cognate to German müde and Old English mēþe.

Adjective

moe (comparative moeër or moeier, superlative moest)

1. tired, weary
   • 1968, Willem Johan van der Molen & Jan Wit, "Evenals een moede hinde" (psalm 42).

     Evenals een moede hinde / naar het klare water smacht, / schreeuwt mijn ziel om God te vinden / die ik ademloos verwacht.

     Just as a tired doe / yearns for clear water, / my soul cries out to find god / whom I breathlessly expect.

   Synonym: vermoeid

Usage notes

This word is usually used predicatively rather than attributively. If an attributive sense is needed, most people use vermoeid. The forms moeie and moeier are often proscribed. The form moede is mostly formal.

Inflection

Inflection of moe
uninflected	moe
inflected	moeë
comparative	moeër
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		moe	moeër	het moest het moeste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	moeë	moeëre	moeste
	n. sing.	moe	moeër	moeste
	plural	moeë	moeëre	moeste
definite		moeë	moeëre	moeste
partitive		moes	moeërs	—

Inflection of moe
uninflected	moe
inflected	moeie
comparative	moeier
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		moe	moeier	het moest het moeste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	moeie	moeiere	moeste
	n. sing.	moe	moeier	moeste
	plural	moeie	moeiere	moeste
definite		moeie	moeiere	moeste
partitive		moes	moeiers	—

Alternative forms

• moede

Descendants

• Afrikaans: moeg
• Jersey Dutch: mûx, mâ
• Negerhollands: moe, mu

Etymology 2

Shortening of moeder.

Noun

moe f (plural moeken, diminutive moeke n or moetje n)

1. (informal, dialectal) mother

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Estonian

Noun

moe

1. genitive singular of mood

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Fijian moce, Malay pejam, Maori moe).

Verb

moe

1. to sleep

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Japanese

Romanization

moe

1. Rōmaji transcription of もえ

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Lovono

Noun

moe

1. house

References

• Alexandre François, The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Fijian moce, Indonesian pejam, Hawaiian moe).

Verb

moe

1. to sleep

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Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *mauwu (“mouth, protruding lip”)

Noun

moe f (oblique plural moes, nominative singular moe, nominative plural moes)

1. mouth

Descendants

• Middle French: moe, moue
  • French: moue

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Rapa Nui

Etymology

See here.

Verb

moe

1. sleep
2. lie down

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Samoan

Verb

moe

1. sleep

Derived terms

• potumoe

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch moeten.

Verb

moe

1. must
2. have to
3. should

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Tahitian

Verb

moe

1. sleep

Usage notes

Archaic; use taʻoto.

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Teanu

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *ʀumaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀumaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moe/, /mʷoe/

Noun

moe

1. house

References

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry moe.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry moe.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

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Tetum

Adjective

moe

1. ashamed

Noun

moe

1. shame