myrrh
English
Etymology
From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "sem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.. Compare Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: mûr, IPA(key): /mɜɹ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [mɜː(ɹ)]
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [mɝ]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
- Homophones: murr, murre
Noun
myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)
- 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.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)
- (Scotland) The herb chervil.
Derived terms
Translations
dried sap of the myrrha tree
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- en:Gums and resins
- en:Sapindales order plants