Moors
See also: moors
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch Moors (“Moorish”), or directly from Moor + -s (after e.g. Scots).
Proper noun edit
Moors
- (British India, obsolete) Hindustani; Urdu. [18th–19th c.]
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:
- [I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:
References edit
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “Moors”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected forms.
Noun edit
Moors
Etymology 3 edit
Proper noun edit
Moors (plural Moorses or Moors)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Moors
- a surname
German edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
Moors