Moor

See also: moor, мөөг, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

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English

Etymology

From French More, Maure, from Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania”), from Ancient Greek Μαυρούσιος (Mauroúsios, “Mauretanian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(r)

Noun

Moor (plural Moors)

1. (historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania.
2. (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.
3. (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
4. (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
5. A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Black Moor
• Moorish
• Moorman
• morris

• Morris dancing
• White Moor

Translations

a member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩爾人 (zh), 摩尔人 (zh) (Mó'ěr rén)

• Dutch: Moor (nl)
• Esperanto: maŭro
• Estonian: maur (et)
• Finnish: mauri (fi)
• French: Maure (fr) m or f
• German: Maure (de) m, Maurin f, Mohr (de) m, Mohrin f
• Greek: Μαυριτανός m (Mavritanós)
• Hungarian: mór (hu)
• Italian: moro (it) m

• Japanese: ムーア人 (Mūa-jin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maurer m

  Nynorsk: maurar m

• Polish: Maur (pl) m
• Portuguese: mouro (pt), moiro (pt)
• Romanian: maur (ro) m
• Russian: мавр (ru) m (mavr)
• Spanish: moro (es) m
• Swedish: mor (sv) c

a member of a this race that formerly occupied Spain

• Czech: Maur m
• Dutch: Moor (nl)
• Esperanto: maŭro
• Finnish: mauri (fi)
• French: Maure (fr) m or f

  Middle French: More m

• German: Maure (de) m, Maurin f, Mohr (de) m, Mohrin f
• Greek: Μαυριτανός m (Mavritanós)
• Hungarian: mór (hu)
• Italian: mori (it) m pl

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maurer m

  Nynorsk: maurar m

• Polish: Maur (pl) m
• Portuguese: mouro (pt), moiro (pt)
• Romanian: maur (ro) m
• Russian: мавр (ru) m (mavr)
• Spanish: moro (es) m
• Swedish: mor (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} Maur
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} Mavri

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Moro (es)

See also

• Morian

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

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German

Etymology

From Middle Low German mōr, mūr, from Old Saxon mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European. Compare Dutch moer, English moor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːɐ̯/

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• Homophone: Mohr
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

Moor n (genitive Moors or Moores, plural Moore)

1. marsh, mire, bog
2. (Hochmoor) moor
3. (Flachmoor) fen

Declension

Declension of Moor

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Moor	die	Moore
genitive	eines	des	Moores, Moors	der	Moore
dative	einem	dem	Moor, Moore1	den	Mooren
accusative	ein	das	Moor	die	Moore

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Synonyms

• Fenn

Hypernyms

• Lebensraum

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of Moor

• Anmoor
• Armmoor

  Sauer-Armmoor

• Durchströmungsmoor
• Hangmoor
• Hochmoor
• Kesselmoor

• Niedermoor
• Quellmoor
• Regenmoor
• Reichmoor
• Überflutungsmoor
• Übergangsmoor
• Verlandungsmoor

• Versumpfungsmoor
• wurzelechtes Hochmoor
• Zwischenmoor

  Basen-Zwischenmoor

  Kalk-Zwischenmoor

  Sauer-Zwischenmoor

Derived terms

• Moorleiche

Further reading

• Moor in Duden online