moor
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mɔɹ/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɔː/ (with the pour–poor merger), IPA(key): /mʊə(ɹ)/ (without the pour–poor merger)
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
- Homophone: Moore (all accents)
- Homophone: more (with the pour–poor merger)
- Homophone: mooer (some accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Noun
moor (plural moors)
- an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
- Carew
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
- a game preserve consisting of moorland
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).
Verb
moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
- the vessel was moored in the stream
- they moored the boat to the wharf.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
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Dutch
Etymology
from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
Synonyms
- (kettle): fluitketel
Derived terms
- moorkop
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːr/
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | moor | moorid |
genitive | moori | mooride |
partitive | moori | moore / moorisid |
illative | moori / moorisse | mooridesse |
inessive | mooris | moorides |
elative | moorist | mooridest |
allative | moorile | mooridele |
adessive | mooril | mooridel |
ablative | moorilt | mooridelt |
translative | mooriks | moorideks |
terminative | moorini | moorideni |
essive | moorina | mooridena |
abessive | moorita | moorideta |
comitative | mooriga | mooridega |
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.