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mor

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Moro terms

mor

1. we (dual)

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

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

1. to grumble, complain

• moru

From Latin morior. Compare Romanian mor, muri.

mor (participle muritã)

1. to die

• nimuritor
• rizmor

• muriri/murire
• murit
• mortu
• moarti

From Middle Breton and Old Breton mor, from Proto-Brythonic *mor, from Proto-Celtic *mori. Cognates include Welsh môr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːr/
• Rhymes: -oːr

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• Hyphenation: mor

mor m (plural morioù)

1. sea

• Martial Menard, editor (2016–present), “mor”, in Devri: Le dictionnaire diachronique du breton‎^[1] (in French), Rennes 2 University

mor

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

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

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

mor m (plural moryow)

1. sea

yn for

1. at sea

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

mor (collective, singulative moren f)

1. berries

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmor]

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• Rhymes: -or

mor m inan

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

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

• moir

From Latin mūrus.

mor m

1. wall

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

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

• moder

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.

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

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

1. (geology) raw humus

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

mor c (singular definite moren, plural indefinite morer)

1. (dated) Moor

• maurer c
• morian c

mor

1. imperative of more (to have fun)

• “mor” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• Rhymes: -ɔr

mor

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

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

• IPA^(key): [mɔɾ]

mor m or f (plural mores)

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

   Synonyms: maior, principal

• mormente

• mordomo

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): [mɔɾ]

mor m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) erysipelas

   Synonym: disipela

• 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

mor

1. romanization of ꦩꦺꦴꦂ

Probably from French mort (“dead”).

mor

1. (intransitive) to die

• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 719

• more, moer

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

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

mor (plural mores)

1. moor

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

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

From Ottoman Turkish مور (mor).^[1]

Northern Kurdish	mor
Central Kurdish	مۆر (mor)

mor

1. violet, purple

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

• 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^[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 397a

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

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

1. a mother

   Han elsker mora si.

   He loves his mother.

• mamma
• moder
• mutter

• “mor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /muːr/

From Old Norse móðir. Akin to English mother.

• moder (archaic, formal or jokingly)

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

1. mother

   Han elskar mora si.

   He loves his mother.

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

• far m (“father”)

Through German Mohr from Latin Maurus.

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

1. a Moor

• “mor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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.

• IPA^(key): /moːr/
• Rhymes: -oːr

mōr m

1. marsh, wilderness, 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

Strong a-stem:

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

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

• mòr, môr, mór (obsolete)

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

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

• mormente

• mordomo

Clipping of amor.

• môr (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -oɾ, -oʁ
• Hyphenation: mor

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)

• por mor de

• “mor”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mor”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua 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

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [mor]

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mor

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

mor

1. sound made by a bear

From Serbo-Croatian more.

mor m

1. sea

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

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

• IPA^(key): /muːr/

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mor c

1. mother

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

• mamma
• moder
• morsa

• fader
• far
• pappa

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

• IPA^(key): /muːr/, /mɔːr/

mor c

1. Moor

Mostly plural.

• morisk

• “mor”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “mor”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “mor”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• Rom, orm, rom

Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).

mor

1. snake

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

• IPA^(key): /moɾ/, [ˈmo̞ʷɾ̞̊]

mor (definite accusative moru, plural morlar)

1. purple

mor (intensive mosmor)

1. purple

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	mavi, gök	lacivert
eflatun; mor	pembe; mor	yavruağzı

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

mor (causes soft mutation)

1. how, so, as

• pa mor

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

• IPA^(key): /mʊr/

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.]

• 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