mor

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mor"

Languages (26)

Translingual

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Translingual

Symbol

mor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Moro.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Moro terms

Abinomn

Pronoun

mor

1. we (dual)

Afrikaans

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Hyphenation: mor

Verb

mor (present mor, present participle morende, past participle gemor)

1. to grumble, complain

Related terms

• murmureer

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• moru

Etymology

From Latin morior. Compare Romanian mor, muri.

Verb

mor (participle muritã)

1. to die

Derived terms

• nimuritor
• rizmor

Related terms

• muriri/murire
• murit
• mortu
• moarti

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton and Old Breton mor, from Proto-Brythonic *mor, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

mor m (plural morioù)

1. sea

Derived terms

• Mor-Bihan (literally “small sea”) (department of Morbihan in Brittany)

Mutation

Mutation of mor

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	mor	vor	unchanged	unchanged
plural	morioù	vorioù	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Catalan

Verb

mor

1. inflection of morir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cornish

An mor

Mor (2)

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [mɔːr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [moːr]

Etymology 1

From Middle Cornish and Old Cornish mor, from Proto-Brythonic *mor, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mor m (plural moryow)

1. sea

Derived terms

• a'n mor (“maritime”)
• arvor (“coast”)
• atal mor (“flotsam and jetsam”)
• dres mor (“overseas”)
• jynn ebron mor (“seaplane”)
• keynvor (“ocean”)
• kreghi mor (“barnacles”)
• kronek ervys mor (“turtle”)
• kukomber mor (“sea cucumber”)
• lanwes mor (“tide”)
• mor Adriatek (“Adriatic Sea”)
• Mor Baltek (“Baltic Sea”)
• mor bras (“ocean”)
• Mor Bretannek (“English Channel”)
• Mor Du (“Black Sea”)
• Mor Havren (“Bristol Channel”)
• Mor Karib (“Caribbean Sea”)
• Mor Kaspi (“Caspian Sea”)
• Mor Keltek (“Celtic Sea”)
• Mor Kledh (“North Sea”)
• Mor Kres (“Mediterranean Sea”)
• Mor Marow (“Dead Sea”)
• morblek (“gulf”)
• mordardha (“surf”, verb)
• Mordir Nowydh (“New Zealand”)
• mordon (“sea wave”)
• mordrik (“low tide”)
• morek (“maritime”)
• morgi (“dogfish”)
• morgowles (“jellyfish”)
• morhogh (“porpoise”)
• morlader (“pirate”)
• morlanow (“high tide”)
• morrep (“seashore”)
• mortid (“tide”)
• morverk (“buoy”)
• morvil (“whale”)
• morvleydh (“shark”)
• morvugh (“walrus”)
• mos dhe vor, mos dhe mor
• pleg mor (“bay”)
• sort mor (“sea urchin”)
• tramor (“overseas, abroad”)
• yn mor (“at sea”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *muɨar (compare Breton mouar), Welsh mwyar from Proto-Celtic *smiyoros (compare Irish sméar).

Noun

mor (collective, singulative moren f)

1. berries

Derived terms

• mor arktek (“arctic brambles”)
• mor du (“blackberries”)

Mutation

Mutation of mor

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
mor	vor	unchanged	unchanged	for	vor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *morъ, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmor]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -or

Noun

mor m inan

1. plague (specific disease)
2. pestilence, plague (any highly contagious disease)

Declension

Declension of mor (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	mor	mory
genitive	moru	morů
dative	moru	morům
accusative	mor	mory
vocative	more	mory
locative	moru	morech
instrumental	morem	mory

Derived terms

• morový

Further reading

• “mor”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mor”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• moir

Etymology

From Latin mūrus.

Noun

mor m

1. wall

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːɐ̯/, [moɐ̯], [mo̝ɒ̯̽]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Etymology 1

From moder, from Old Norse móðir, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Alternative forms

• moder

Noun

mor c (singular definite moren, plural indefinite mødre)

1. mother (woman who has, conceives, gives birth to, or raises a child)

   Han elsker sin mor.

   He loves his mother.

Inflection

Declension of mor

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mor	moren	mødre	mødrene
genitive	mors	morens	mødres	mødrenes

Etymology 2

Via Old Norse mǫr and/or Middle Low German mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.

Noun

mor c (singular definite moren or morren, not used in plural form)

1. (geology) raw humus

Etymology 3

Borrowing from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek μαυρός (maurós, “dark”).

Noun

mor c (singular definite moren, plural indefinite morer)

1. (dated) Moor

Inflection

Declension of mor

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mor	moren	morer	morerne
genitive	mors	morens	morers	morernes

Synonyms

• maurer c
• morian c

Etymology 4

Verb

mor

1. imperative of more (to have fun)

Further reading

• “mor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔr

Verb

mor

1. inflection of morren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese moor, maor, from Latin maior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɔɾ]

Adjective

mor m or f (plural mores)

1. (in titles) head; chief; main (foremost in rank)
2. principal; main (foremost in importance)

   Synonyms: maior, principal

Derived terms

• mormente

Related terms

• mordomo

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɔɾ]

Noun

mor m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) erysipelas

   Synonym: disipela

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Javanese

Romanization

mor

1. romanization of ꦩꦺꦴꦂ

Middle English

Alternative forms

• more, moer

Etymology

From Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

Noun

mor (plural mores)

1. moor

Descendants

• English: moor
• Scots: muir
• Yola: mor

References

• “mọ̄r, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مور (mor).

Adjective

Northern Kurdish	mor
Central Kurdish	مۆر (mor)

mor

1. violet, purple

See also

Colors in Northern Kurdish · reng (layout · text)

spî	gewr	reş
sor; sorê sor	pirteqalî; qehweyî	zer; qîçik
keskê vekirî	kesk	kevz; keskê tarî
şînê vekirî; hêşîn	şînê esmanî	şîn
şîrkî, mor; heş	soravî; binefşî, xemir	pîvazî, pembe

Further reading

• Cabolov, R. L. (2001), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 680
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “mor”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 397a

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From moder, from Old Norse móðir, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Noun

mor f or m (definite singular mora or moren, indefinite plural mødre or mødrer, definite plural mødrene)

1. a mother

   Han elsker moren sin.

   He loves his mother.

Synonyms

• mamma
• moder
• mutter

Derived terms

• alenemor
• farmor
• gudmor
• husmor
• jordmor
• livmor
• morbror
• morfar
• morkake
• mormor
• morsdag
• morsmelk
• morsmjølk
• morsmål
• morsside
• stemor
• surrogatmor
• svigermor

Related terms

• bror, søster, søsken
• far, pappa
• sønn, datter

References

• “mor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːr/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse móðir. Akin to English mother.

Alternative forms

• moder (archaic, formal or jokingly)

Noun

mor f (definite singular mora, indefinite plural mødrer, definite plural mødrene)

1. mother

   Han elskar mora si.

   He loves his mother.

Synonyms

• mamma m (“mum, mom”)
• morsan (informal, from Swedish)
• muttern (informal, from German)

Coordinate terms

• far m (“father”)

Derived terms

• aleinemor
• barnemor
• bestemor
• biologisk mor
• farmor
• fembarnsmor
• firebarnsmor
• formor
• fostermor
• gamlemor
• godmor
• gudmor
• gullmor
• gygremor
• haremor
• husmor
• hønemor
• jordmor
• kongemor
• kyllingmor
• lesemor
• litlemor
• livmor
• lysmor
• matmor
• medmor
• morbror
• morcelle
• morfar
• morkake
• morland
• morlaus
• morløyse
• mormor
• morsarv
• morsdag
• morselskap
• morsfolk
• morshjarte
• morskap
• morsmjølk
• morsmål
• morsnamn
• morspermisjon
• morsrolle
• morsside
• morsslekt
• morssysken
• morstrygd
• morsyster
• morsætt
• oldemor
• perlemor
• pleiemor
• ramnemor
• skrumor
• sogmor
• stammor
• stemor
• stykmor
• surrogatmor
• svigermor
• tobarnsmor
• trebarnsmor
• vermor
• veslemor

Etymology 2

Through German Mohr from Latin Maurus.

Noun

mor m (definite singular moren, indefinite plural morar, definite plural morane)

1. a Moor

References

• “mor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mōr. Cognate with Old Saxon mōr (Dutch moer), Middle Low German mōr (German Moor), Old High German muor, Old Norse mǫr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/
• Rhymes: -ōr

Noun

mōr m

1. moor
   • Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     On þǣm mōrum eardiað Finnas; and þæt bȳne land is ēasteweard brādost, and symle swā norðor swā smælre. Ēastewerd hit mæġ bīon syxtiġ mīla brād, oþþe hwēne brǣdre; and middeweard þritiġ oððe brādre; and norðeweard, hē cwæð, þǣr hit smalost wǣre, þæt hit mihte bēon þrēora mīla brād tō þǣm mōre; and sē mōr syðþan, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on twām wucum oferferan; and, on sumum stōwum, swā brād swā man mæġ on syx dagum oferferan.

     Finns dwell on the moors; and that inhabited land is widest in the east, and always smaller farther north. In the east it can be sixty miles wide, or a bit wider; and in the middle, thirty miles or broader; and in the north, he said, where it was smallest, it might be three miles across to the moor; and the moor, in some places, is as wide as a man can cross in two weeks; and in some places, as broad as a man can cross in six days.

2. mountain

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mōr	mōras
accusative	mōr	mōras
genitive	mōres	mōra
dative	mōre	mōrum

Descendants

• Middle English: mor, more, moer
  • English: moor
  • Scots: muir
  • Yola: mor

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese moor, maor, from Latin maior. Doublet of maior and major.

Alternative forms

• mòr, môr, mór (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ/ [ˈmɔh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ/ [ˈmɔh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ/ [ˈmɔχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ, (Brazil) -ɔʁ
• Hyphenation: mor

Adjective

mor m or f (plural mores)

1. (in titles) head; chief; main (foremost in rank)
2. principal; main (foremost in importance)

   Synonym: principal

   Altar-mor

   Main altar

Derived terms

• mormente

Related terms

• mordomo

Etymology 2

Clipping of amor.

Alternative forms

• môr (pre-reform spelling)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ/ [ˈmoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ/ [ˈmoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ/ [ˈmoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ɾi/

• Rhymes: -oɾ, -oʁ
• Hyphenation: mor

Noun

mor m (plural mores)

1. apheretic form of amor, now especially in the prepositional phrase por mor de or as a term of address

   Synonym: mô (as a term of address)

Derived terms

• por mor de

Further reading

• “mor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mor”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “mor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “mor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mor]

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

mor

1. inflection of muri:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Interjection

mor

1. sound made by a bear

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian more.

Noun

mor m

1. sea

Declension

Declension of mor (inan series-1b masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	mor	mora
genitive	mora	mor, mori
dative	moru	morami, mori
accusative	mor	mora
locative	moru	mora
instrumental	morom, moram	morami, mori

References

• Antonietta Marra (2012), “Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases” in Morphologies in Contact.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Short form of moder, from Old Norse móðir, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

mor c

1. mother

Usage notes

Slightly old-fashioned or solemn. The more everyday word is mamma.

Declension

Declension of mor

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mor	mors
	definite	modern	moderns
plural	indefinite	mödrar	mödrars
	definite	mödrarna	mödrarnas

Synonyms

• mamma
• moder
• morsa

Related terms

• farmor
• husmor
• mora
• morbroder
• morbror
• morfader
• morfar
• mormoder
• mormor
• morsa
• morsarv
• morsdag
• morsgris
• morslott
• morsnamn
• morssidan
• moster
• styvmor

See also

• fader
• far
• pappa

Etymology 2

Derived from Latin Maurus, possibly from Ancient Greek μαυρός (maurós). Compare origin of morian, mauretanier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːr/, /mɔːr/

Noun

mor c

1. Moor

Usage notes

Mostly plural.

Declension

Declension of mor

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mor	mors
	definite	moren	morens
plural	indefinite	morer	morers
	definite	morerna	morernas

Derived terms

• morisk

References

• mor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Rom, orm, rom

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).

Noun

mor

1. snake

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مور (mor). See it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moɾ/, [ˈmo̞ʷɾ̞̊]

Noun

mor (definite accusative moru, plural morlar)

1. purple

Adjective

mor (intensive mosmor)

1. purple

See also

Colors in Turkish · renkler (layout · text)

beyaz, ak	gri, boz	siyah, kara
kırmızı, kızıl; al	turuncu; kahverengi, boz	sarı; bej
limon çürüğü	yeşil	nane yeşili
camgöbeği; turkuaz	gök, mavi	lacivert
eflatun; mor	pembe; mor	yavruağzı

Welsh

Etymology

Perhaps related to mawr (“great, large”), compare Irish mór- (“great-, grand-”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Adverb

mor (causes soft mutation)

1. how, so, as

Derived terms

• pa mor

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mọ̄r, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊr/

Noun

mor

1. moor
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 108:

     Zing ug a mor fane a zour a ling.

     [Sing to the moor iris, the sorrel and the ling.]

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108