Moor

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɔː/, /mʊə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mʊɹ/, /mɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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

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.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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?

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

• Belarusian: маўр m (maŭr)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Maur m
• Danish: maurer c
• Dutch: Moor (nl)
• Esperanto: maŭro
• Estonian: maur (et)
• Faroese: móri m
• Finnish: mauri (fi)
• French: Maure (fr) m or f
• German: Maure (de) m, Maurin f, Mohr (de) m, Mohrin (de) f
• Greek: Μαυριτανός m (Mavritanós)
• Hindi: मूर (hi) m (mūr)
• Hungarian: mór (hu)

• Icelandic: mári m
• Italian: moro (it) m
• Japanese: ムーア人 (mūajin)
• Korean: 무어인 (mueoin)
• 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
• Ukrainian: мавр m (mavr)

a member of a this race that formerly occupied Spain

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

  Middle French: More m

• German: Maure (de) m, Maurin f, Mohr (de) m, Mohrin (de) f
• Greek: Μαυριτανός m (Mavritanós)
• Hindi: मूर (hi) m (mūr)
• Hungarian: mór (hu)

• Icelandic: mári m
• 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. 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

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Moor (plural Moors)

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from Irish.
   2. An English surname transferred from the given name.

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch moor, from Old French maure, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαυρός (Maurós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

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• Hyphenation: Moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Noun

Moor m (plural Moren, diminutive Moortje n, feminine Morin)

1. (historical) A Moor (member of a Berber people from western North Africa, ruling parts of Spain during the Middle Ages).
2. (archaic, potentially offensive) A black person, a negro.

Derived terms

• moorkop
• Moors

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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 (strong, genitive Moores or Moors, plural Moore)

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

Declension

Declension of Moor [neuter, strong]

	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

• Hochmoor
• Moorboden
• Moorbrand
• Mooreidechse
• Moorente
• Moorerde
• Moorfrosch
• Moorgebiet
• Moorhuhn
• moorig
• Moorkolonie
• Moorleiche
• Moorpackung
• Moorpflanze
• Moorschneehuhn
• Moorsiedlung
• Regenmoor
• Zwischenmoor

 

Related terms

• Moorhuhnjagd

Further reading

• “Moor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Moor” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Moor” in Duden online
• Moor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de