Moor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɔː/, /mʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mʊɹ/, /mɔɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English More, Moore, from Old French More (modern French Maure), from Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania”), from Ancient Greek Μαυρούσιος (Mauroúsios, “Mauretanian”). Doublet of Moro.
Noun edit
Moor (plural Moors)
- (historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania.
- (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- [King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary,
How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?
- (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
- (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
- A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
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Translations edit
a member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people
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a member of a this race that formerly occupied Spain
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Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Moor (plural Moors)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch moor, from Old French maure, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαῦρος (Maûros).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Moor m (plural Moren, diminutive Moortje n, feminine Morin)
- (historical) A Moor (member of a Berber people from western North Africa, also ruling parts of Spain during the Middle Ages).
- (archaic, offensive) A black person, a negro.
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German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German mōr, mūr, from Old Saxon mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European. Compare Dutch moer, English moor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Moor n (strong, genitive Moores or Moors, plural Moore)
Declension edit
Declension of Moor [neuter, strong]
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Hyponyms edit
Hyponyms of Moor
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Further reading edit
- “Moor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Moor” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Moor” in Duden online
- Moor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de