morale

See also: morāle and morālē

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/

  • Audio (RP)

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs, morale was at an all time low; the staff were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   A morale-boosting exercise

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times‎^[1]:

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• → Welsh: morâl

Translations

the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رُوح مَعْنَوِيَّة‎ f (rūḥ maʕnawiyya)
• Armenian: բարոյահոգեբանական վիճակ (hy) (baroyahogebanakan vičak)
• Belarusian: дух m (dux), мара́льны дух m (marálʹny dux)
• Bulgarian: дух (bg) m (duh), мора́лно състоя́ние n (morálno sǎstojánie), мора́лен дух m (morálen duh)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 士氣／士气 (si⁶ hei³)

  Mandarin: 士氣／士气 (zh) (shìqì), 信心 (zh) (xìnxīn)

• Czech: morálka (cs) f
• Danish: moral (da) c
• Dutch: moreel (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: moraali (fi)
• French: moral (fr) m
• Galician: ánimo (gl), disposición (gl) f, moral (gl) f, azo m, folgo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Moral (de) f
• Greek: ηθικό (el) n (ithikó), φρόνημα (el) n (frónima)
• Hebrew: מוֹרָל‎ (he) m (morál), רוח קרב‎ f (rúakh krav)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: korsa, daya juang (id)
• Irish: meanma f, misneach (ga) m, sprid (ga) f
• Italian: morale (it) m
• Japanese: 士気 (ja) (しき, shiki)
• Korean: 사기(士氣) (ko) (sagi)
• Latin: animus (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: روحیه‎ (fa) (ruhiyye)
• Polish: morale (pl) n
• Portuguese: ânimo (pt), disposição (pt), moral (pt) m
• Russian: дух (ru) m (dux), боево́й дух m (bojevój dux), настро́й (ru) m (nastrój), мора́льное состоя́ние n (morálʹnoje sostojánije), мора́льный дух m (morálʹnyj dux)
• Scottish Gaelic: meanmna m, misneachd f, spiorad m, smior m
• Shan: ႁႅင်းၸႂ် (héng tsǎue)
• Slovak: morálka f
• Spanish: entusiasmo (es) m, ánimo (es) m, disposición (es) f
• Swedish: -moral c, stridsmoral (sv) c, arbetsmoral c
• Tagalog: katatagang-loob
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: дух m (dux), мора́льний дух m (morálʹnyj dux)
• Vietnamese: tinh thần (vi)
• Welsh: morâl m

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

Esperanto

Etymology

From moralo +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moˈrale]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le

Adverb

morale

1. morally

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

• “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: mo‧rà‧le

Adjective

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

Noun

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

Anagrams

• Merola, malore, molare, molera, molerà

Latin

Adjective

mōrāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧le

Noun

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

Noun

morale

1. locative singular of morał
2. vocative singular of morał

Further reading

• morale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Verb

morale

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of morar combined with le