moer

• IPA^(key): [muːr]

From Dutch moer.

moer (plural moere)

1. nut: female screw, which fits on a bolt

   Ek draai die moer vas

2. seed tuber

From Dutch moer.

moer (uncountable)

1. dregs, lees, sediment (of liquid)

moer (present moer, present participle moerende, past participle gemoer)

1. to hit someone very hard

   Ek gaan jou hard moer. ― I'm gonna beat the shit out of you.

• IPA^(key): /mur/, [muːr]
• Hyphenation: moer
• Rhymes: -uːr

Contraction of moeder (“mother”) by syncope of medial /d/.

moer f (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. (rare, archaic) mother
2. a queen bee
3. a female hare
4. a female rabbit
5. a female ferret

• (mother): moeder, ma, mama
• (queen bee): bijenkoningin
• (female hare): moershaas
• (female rabbit): moerkonijn

• hellemoer
• moershaas
• moerkonijn
• moerstaal
• moerschroef
• moersleutel

A shortening of moerschroef, from moer (“mother”) +‎ schroef (“bolt”).

moer f (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. a type of fastener with a threaded hole; a nut
2. (informal) something small and insignificant (in the phrase geen moer)

   Het kan me geen moer schelen.

   I do not care at all.

Contraction of moeder, a dialectal variant of modder (“mud”).

moer f (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. sediment formed in various alcoholic drinks and vinegar; compare French: mère de vinaigre

From Middle Dutch moer (“morass”), from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *mōraz. Related to meer (“lake”). Cognate with English moor, Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”).

moer n (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. morass, marsh, peat

• moeren

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moer ?

1. Alternative form of muur chickweed

• Dr. P.A.F. van Veen e.a., Etymologisch Woordenboek. De herkomst van onze woorden., Van Dale Lexicografie, 1989 [Dutch etymological dictionary, in Dutch]

• more, roem, Rome

13th century. From Latin molere (“to mill”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /moˈeɾ/

moer (first-person singular present moio, first-person singular preterite moín, past participle moído)

1. (transitive) to mill
2. (transitive) to grind, to crush

• amoado (“liquid dough; mixture”)
• moa (“molar; millstone”)
• moenda (“action of milling”)
• muíña (“chaff”)
• muíño (“mill”)
• muiñeira (Galician traditional dance and bagpipe music)

• “moer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “moer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old High German magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz. Cognate with German mager, Dutch mager, Icelandic magur; also related to English meagre.

• IPA^(key): /moː(e)ʀ/, [ˈmoː.ɐ]

moer (masculine moeren or moren, neuter moert, comparative méi moer, superlative am moersten)

1. lean
2. skinny, meagre

From Old Portuguese moer, from Latin molere, present active infinitive of molō (“I grind, I mill”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmweɾ/

moer (first-person singular present indicative moo, past participle moído)

1. (transitive) to mill
2. (transitive) to grind, crush
3. (figuratively, colloquial, takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to tire; exhaust

• (to crush): esmagar
• (to tire): cansar, fatigar

• moagem
• moedor

• moenda
• mó
• moinho
• moleiro