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

  1. (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.

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Etymology 2 edit

Inflected forms.

Noun edit

Moors

  1. plural of Moor

Etymology 3 edit

Proper noun edit

Moors (plural Moorses or Moors)

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

Anagrams edit

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /moːrs/
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Proper noun edit

Moors

  1. a surname

German edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Moors

  1. genitive singular of Moor