myrrh

English

Myrrh.

Etymology

From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] . Compare Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /mɜɹ/
  • IPA^(key): [mɜː(ɹ)]
  • IPA^(key): [mɝ]
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: murr, murre

Noun

myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)

1. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)

     The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.

2. (Scotland) The herb chervil.

Derived terms

• myrrhic
• myrrhine
• myrrhlike

Translations

dried sap of the myrrha tree

• Arabic: مُرّ (ar) (murr)
• Armenian: զմուռս (hy) (zmuṙs)
• Bengali: গন্ধরস (gondhoroś)
• Catalan: mirra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沒藥／没药 (mut⁶ joek⁶), 没药 (mut⁶ joek⁶)

  Hakka: 沒藥／没药, 没药 (mu̍t-yo̍k)

  Mandarin: 沒藥／没药 (zh) (mòyào), 没药 (zh) (mòyào)

  Min Nan: 沒藥／没药, 没药 (bu̍t-io̍h)

• Czech: myrha (cs) f
• Danish: myrra
• Dutch: mirre (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ꜥntjw)
• Esperanto: mirho
• Estonian: mürr
• Faroese: myrra f
• Finnish: myrha (fi)
• French: myrrhe (fr) f
• Galician: mirra f
• Georgian: მური (muri)
• German: Myrrhe (de) f
• Greek: σμύρνα (el) f (smýrna)

  Ancient: σμύρνα f (smúrna)

• Hausa: mûr̃ m
• Hebrew: מור (he), לֹט m
• Hindi: बोल (hi) m (bol), गन्धरस (hi) m (gandharas), शश (hi) m (śaś), विश्व (hi) m (viśva), मुण्ड (hi) m (muṇḍ)
• Hungarian: mirha (hu)
• Icelandic: myrra f
• Ido: miro (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: miorr m
• Italian: mirra (it) f
• Japanese: ミルラ (mirura), 没薬 (motsuyaku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: murra (la), myrrha
• Macedonian: измирна f (izmirna)
• Malay: morhabshi
• Maori: maira
• Norman: myrrhe f
• Norwegian: myrra
• Old English: myrra
• Old Norse: mirra f
• Polish: mirra (pl) f
• Portuguese: mirra (pt) f
• Russian: ми́рра (ru) f (mírra)
• Sanskrit: पिण्ड (sa) m or n (piṇḍa), मुण्ड (sa) n (muṇḍa), शश (sa) m (śaśa), विश्व (sa) f (viśva), गन्धरस (sa) m (gandharasa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ми̏рха f, измирна f

  Roman: mȉrha (sh) f, izmirna (sh) f

• Slovak: myrha f
• Spanish: mirra (es) f
• Swahili: manemane
• Swedish: myrra (sv) c
• Tagalog: mira
• Thai: มดยอบ (th) (mót-yɔ̂ɔp)
• Turkish: mür (tr)
• Upper Sorbian: myrowc
• Vietnamese: hất nhựa thơm

Further reading

• myrrh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia