moor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /moː/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /moː/, [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /mɔː/
- (cure–force distinction) IPA(key): /mʊə/
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- (Scotland) IPA(key): /mʉr/
- (US)
- (cure–force merger) IPA(key): /mɔɹ/
- (cure–force distinction) IPA(key): /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: Moore (all accents), more (cure–force merger), maw (most non-rhotic accents with cure–force merger), mooer (some accents)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Noun edit
moor (plural moors)
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
- In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
- the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:
- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Derived terms edit
- Alston Moor
- Blea Moor
- Bodmin Moor
- Clayton-le-Moors
- Cleator Moor
- Clifton Moor
- Cranmoor
- Crosland Moor
- Dartmoor
- Draycott in the Moors
- East Moors
- Exmoor
- Goss Moor
- Holton le Moor
- Lower Moor
- Low Moor
- moor buzzard
- moor grass
- moorhen
- moorland
- moor macaque
- Moor Monkton
- Moor Park
- Moor Row
- moortop
- Rannoch Moor
- Thornton-le-Moors (Cheshire)
- Ushaw Moor
- West Moor
- West Moors
Translations edit
region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath
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game preserve
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).
Verb edit
moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- The vessel moored in the stream.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- They moored the boat to the wharf.
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:
- His thought is tied, the curving prow
Of motion moored to rock;
And minutes burst upon a brow
Insentient to shock.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
Antonyms edit
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to cast anchor or become fastened
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to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains
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to secure or fix firmly
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Translations to be checked
Further reading edit
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)
- (intransitive) to murder
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
Synonyms edit
- (kettle): fluitketel
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Negerhollands: Moor
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)
- (derogatory) an elderly woman; a crone
Declension edit
| Declension of moor (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | moor | moorid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | moori | ||
| genitive | mooride | ||
| partitive | moori | moore moorisid | |
| illative | moori moorisse |
mooridesse mooresse | |
| inessive | mooris | moorides moores | |
| elative | moorist | mooridest moorest | |
| allative | moorile | mooridele moorele | |
| adessive | mooril | mooridel moorel | |
| ablative | moorilt | mooridelt moorelt | |
| translative | mooriks | moorideks mooreks | |
| terminative | moorini | moorideni | |
| essive | moorina | mooridena | |
| abessive | moorita | moorideta | |
| comitative | mooriga | mooridega | |
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō. Cognates include West Frisian mear and German mehr.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
moor
Pronoun edit
moor