moor

See also: Moor and мөөг

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɔɹ/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔː/ (southern), IPA^(key): /mʊ.ə(ɹ)/ (northern)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
• Homophones: Moore, more, mooer

Usage notes

more is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while mooer is homophonous only in those accents.

Etymology 1

Old English mōr. Cognates include Dutch moer, 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.

   • Carew

     In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

2. a game preserve consisting of moorland

Derived terms

• moorland
• moortop

Translations

region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath

• Arabic: بِرْكَة f (bírka), سَبْخَة f (sábxa), مُسْتَنْقَع m (mustánqaʿ)
• Catalan: erm m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: vřesoviště n
• Danish: hede c
• Dutch: veen (nl) n
• Esperanto: stepo
• Estonian: raba (et)
• Finnish: nummi (fi)
• French: bruyère (fr) f, lande (fr) f
• German: Moor (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 f
• Japanese: 荒野 (ja) (あらの, arano, こうや, kōya), 荒れ地 (あれち, arechi, こうち, kōchi)

• Jèrriais: lande f
• Latin: loca fruticetis obsita
• Norwegian: lynghei
• Old Irish: slíab m, n
• Portuguese: charneca (pt) f
• Russian: вересковая пустошь f (véreskovaja pústošʹ), пустошь (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 m, páramo (es) m
• Swedish: hed (sv) c
• Turkish: kır (tr)
• Welsh: gwaun f

game preserve

• Russian: охотничье угодье n (oxótničʹje ugódʹje), участок для охоты m (učástok dlja oxóty)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: brughiera f (2)

See also

• bog
• marsh
• swamp

Etymology 2

From the imperfect past participle moored; present participle and verbal noun mooring. Probably from middle Dutch marren "to tie, fasten or moor a ship" (now only means to procrastinate; > modern terms (aan)meren). See mar.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Translations

to cast anchor or become fastened

• Chinese:

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

• Danish: fortøje
• Dutch: aanmeren (nl), aanleggen (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittyä, ankkuroitua
• French: mouiller (fr), amarrer (fr), ancrer (fr)
• German: anlegen (de)
• Ido: amaragar (io)

• Italian: ancorare (it), attraccare (it)
• Japanese: 停泊する (ja) (ていはくする, teihaku suru)
• Portuguese: atracar (pt)
• Russian: пришвартовываться (ru) impf (prišvartóvyvatʹsja), пришвартоваться impf (prišvartovátʹsja), становиться (stanovitʹsja) на (na) якорь (jakorʹ) (stanovítʹsja na jákorʹ) impf., стать (statʹ) на (na) якорь (jakorʹ) (statʹ na jákorʹ) pf.
• Spanish: anclar (es)
• Swedish: förtöja (sv)

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

• Danish: fortøje
• Dutch: meren (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi), ankkuroida
• French: ancrer (fr) (with an anchor), amarrer (fr) (with ropes or cables)
• 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)
• Jèrriais: amather
• Russian: ставить (stavitʹ) на (na) якорь (jakorʹ) (stávitʹ na jákorʹ) impf., поставить (postavitʹ) на (na) якорь (jakorʹ) (postávitʹ na jákorʹ) pf., швартовать (ru) impf (švartovátʹ), пришвартовать (ru) pf (prišvartovátʹ)
• Spanish: anclar (es) (with an anchor), amarrar (es) (with ropes, cables or chains)
• Swedish: förtöja (sv)

to secure or fix firmly

• Dutch: verankeren
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi)
• German: festmachen

• Irish: feistigh, fosaigh, suigh, daingnigh
• Russian: крепить (ru) impf (krepítʹ), закрепить (ru) pf (zakrepítʹ)
• Spanish: atar (es), amarrar (es), asegurar (es) fijar (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: silduma, otsi kinnitama
• French: amarrer (fr)

• Portuguese: atracar (pt), ancorar (pt)

Anagrams

• Moro
• room

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Dutch

Etymology

from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)

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

Derived terms

• moorkop

Synonyms

• (kettle) fluitketel

Anagrams

• room

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Estonian

Noun

moor (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. grimalkin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.