murg

English

Noun

murg (uncountable)

1. (Indian cookery) Alternative form of murgh
   • 2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness

     “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.

Anagrams

• grum

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch merg, From Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch *marg, *merg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos.

Noun

murg (plural [please provide])

1. marrow

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Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *murga, from *morHgʷo, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)merHgʷ- (compare Old English mierce ‘darkness’, Lithuanian márgas ‘multicolored’, Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós) ‘dark’).

Adjective

murg m (feminine murge)

1. dark, grey

Derived terms

• murgë
• murgëz
• murgët

Etymology 2

Tosk variant of Gheg mûng, from Late Latin monāchus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós).

Noun

murg m

1. monk

Derived terms

• murgeshë
• murgator

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Romanian

Etymology

Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of the Balkans, akin to Albanian murgash. The word seems to also coincide with several similar words in nearby Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian мург(ав) (murg(av)), but the relation between them is unclear. Other less probable theories have included a Greek root *μουρικος, perhaps through a Latin intermediate *moricus, instead of morulus, or a Greek root ἀμόργη ("remains of olives") through Latin amurca. However, the fact that it is present in the other Eastern Romance languages such as Aromanian murgu and Megleno-Romanian murg, and is paired with an initial 'a' to form the related word amurg, seems to indicate it is probably an old and inherited word of some kind (compare acasă, afund, aminte), rather than a later Slavic borrowing. Nonetheless, the exact source is as of yet uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /murɡ/

Adjective

murg m, n (feminine singular murgă, masculine plural murgi, feminine and neuter plural murge)

1. reddish-black
2. ash-coloured
3. generally, dark-coloured

Declension

declension of murg

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	murg		murgă	murgi	murge
	definite	murgul		murga	murgii	murgele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	murg		murge	murgi	murge
	definite	murgului		murgei	murgilor	murgelor

Noun

murg n (plural murguri)

1. (archaic, popular) dusk

Declension

declension of murg

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) murg	murgul	(niște) murguri	murgurile
genitive/dative	(unui) murg	murgului	(unor) murguri	murgurilor
vocative	murgule		murgurilor

Synonyms

• amurg

Noun

murg m (plural murgi)

1. a dark-coloured horse

Declension

declension of murg

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) murg	murgul	(niște) murgi	murgii
genitive/dative	(unui) murg	murgului	(unor) murgi	murgilor
vocative	murgule		murgilor

Related terms

• amurg

See also

• brun
• negru