moor

See also: Moor, мөөг, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /moː/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /moː/, [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mɔː/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mʊə/

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• (US)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mɔɹ/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mʊ(ə)ɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: Moore (all accents)
• Homophone: more (with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: mooer (some accents)

Usage notes

More is not a homophone in some Northern UK accents, while mooer is.

Etymology 1

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

Noun

moor (plural moors)

1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

   A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.

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     In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Derived terms

Terms derived from moor (noun)

• Alston Moor
• Blea Moor
• Bodmin Moor
• Clayton-le-Moors
• Cleator Moor
• Crosland Moor
• Dartmoor
• Exmoor
• Lower Moor
• Low Moor
• moorland
• Moor Park
• Moor Row
• moortop
• moorhen
• Thornton-le-Moors (Cheshire)
• Ushaw Moor
• West Moors

Translations

region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath

• Arabic: بِرْكَة‎ f (birka), سَبْخَة‎ f (sabḵa), مُسْتَنْقَع‎ m (mustanqaʿ)
• Breton: lann (br) m
• Catalan: erm (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荒澤, 荒泽 (huāngzé), 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì)

• Czech: vřesoviště n
• Danish: hede (da) c
• Dutch: veen (nl) n
• Esperanto: stepo
• Estonian: raba (et), nõmm (et), soo (et)
• Finnish: nummi (fi)
• French: lande (fr) f
• Galician: braña (gl) f, illó m, groto (gl) m, lagumeira f, lenteiro m, lameira m, bulleiro (gl) m, marnel, páramo (gl) m
• Georgian: ტორფნარი (ṭorpnari)
• German: Hochmoor (de) n
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu), láp (hu), ingovány (hu)
• Icelandic: mýri (is) f, heiði f
• Irish: móinteán m, caorán m
• Italian: landa (it) f, brughiera (it) f

• Japanese: 荒野 (ja) (あらの, arano, こうや, kōya), 荒れ地 (あれち, arechi, こうち, kōchi)
• Latin: loca fruticetis obsita
• Norman: lande f
• Norwegian: lynghei
• Old Irish: slíab m or n
• Polish: wrzosowisko (pl) n, torfowisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: charneca (pt) f
• Russian: ве́ресковая пу́стошь f (véreskovaja pústošʹ), пу́стошь (ru) f (pústošʹ)
• Scots: muir
• Scottish Gaelic: monadh m, sliabh m, mòinteach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вресиште n, вријесиште n

  Roman: vresište n, vrijesište n

• Spanish: brezal m, pantano (es) m, turbera f
• Swedish: hed (sv) c
• Tagalog: labon
• Turkish: kır (tr)
• Welsh: gwaun f, rhos f

game preserve

• Russian: охо́тничье уго́дье n (oxótničʹje ugódʹje), уча́сток для охо́ты m (učástok dlja oxóty)

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• Italian: (2) ^{(please verify)} brughiera (it) f

See also

• bog
• marsh
• swamp

Etymology 2

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

Some boats moored off Chicago

Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

1. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

   the vessel was moored in the stream

   they moored the boat to the wharf.

3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Derived terms

• mooring buoy
• mooring can
• mooring post
• mooring
• moor up
• unmoored

Translations

to cast anchor or become fastened

• Bulgarian: акостирам (bg) (akostiram), приставам (pristavam)
• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 系泊 (jìbó), 泊 (zh) (bó), 停泊 (zh) (tíngbó)

• Danish: lægge til, fortøje
• Dutch: aanmeren (nl), aanleggen (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittyä (fi), ankkuroitua
• French: mouiller (fr), amarrer (fr), ancrer (fr)
• Galician: fondear (gl), ancorar (gl)
• German: anlegen (de)
• Hungarian: kiköt (hu)
• Ido: amaragar (io)

• Italian: ancorare (it), attraccare (it)
• Japanese: 停泊する (ja) (ていはくする, teihaku suru)
• Norwegian: legge til, fortøye
• Persian: مهار کردن‎ (mahār kardan)
• Polish: cumować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ancorar (pt), atracar (pt)
• Russian: прича́ливать (ru) (pričálivatʹ)
• Spanish: anclar (es)
• Swedish: lägga till (sv), förtöja (sv)
• Turkish: yanaşmak (tr)

to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains

• Bulgarian: закотвям (zakotvjam)
• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏔᎳᏗᎠ (ataladia)
• Danish: fortøje
• Dutch: meren (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi), ankkuroida (fi)
• French: ancrer (fr) (with an anchor), amarrer (fr) (with ropes or cables)
• German: vertäuen (de)
• Ido: amaragar (io)
• Irish: feistigh, múráil
• Italian: attraccare (it), ancorarsi
• Japanese: 停泊させる (ja) (ていはくさせる, teihaku saseru)

• Norman: amather
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fortøye

• Polish: cumować (pl) impf, przycumować pf, zacumować pf
• Portuguese: ancorar (pt)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} ста́вить на я́корь impf (stávitʹ na jákorʹ) , ^{(please verify)} поста́вить на я́корь pf (postávitʹ na jákorʹ) , ^{(please verify)} швартова́ть (ru) impf (švartovátʹ), ^{(please verify)} пришвартова́ть (ru) pf (prišvartovátʹ)
• Spanish: anclar (es) (with an anchor), amarrar (es) (with ropes, cables or chains)
• Swedish: förtöja (sv)

to secure or fix firmly

• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Dutch: verankeren (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi)
• German: festmachen (de)

• Irish: feistigh, fosaigh, suigh, daingnigh
• Portuguese: atracar (pt)
• Russian: крепи́ть (ru) impf (krepítʹ), закрепи́ть (ru) pf (zakrepítʹ)
• Spanish: atar (es), amarrar (es), asegurar (es) fijar (es)

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• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} silduma, ^{(please verify)} otsi kinnitama
• French: ^{(please verify)} amarrer (fr)

• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} amarrar (pt)

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊə̯r/

Verb

moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)

1. (intransitive) to murder

Related terms

• moord

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Dutch

Etymology

From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

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• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)

1. Something black, notably a black horse
2. A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Synonyms

• (kettle): fluitketel

Derived terms

• moorkop

Anagrams

• room

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Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

1. (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone

Declension

Declension of moor (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	moor	moorid
genitive	moori	mooride
partitive	moori	moore / moorisid
illative	moori / moorisse	mooridesse
inessive	mooris	moorides
elative	moorist	mooridest
allative	moorile	mooridele
adessive	mooril	mooridel
ablative	moorilt	mooridelt
translative	mooriks	moorideks
terminative	moorini	moorideni
essive	moorina	mooridena
abessive	moorita	moorideta
comitative	mooriga	mooridega

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Adjective

moor

1. more

Adverb

moor

1. more