moray

See also: Moray

English

Alternative forms

• maray, muray (archaic)

Etymology

From Portuguese moreia, from Latin murēna (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμύραινα (smúraina), from σμύρος (smúros, “sea eel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒ.ɹeɪ/, /məˈɹeɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ.eɪ/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

moray (plural morays)

1. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.

Synonyms

• moray eel

Derived terms

• conger moray
• goldentail moray
• green moray
• laced moray
• snowflake moray
• yellow moray

 

Translations

eels of the family Muraenidae

• Armenian:

  Middle Armenian: փողոշ (pʻoġoš), փողոշուկ (pʻoġošuk)

• Bulgarian: мурена f (murena)
• Catalan: morena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海鱔／海鳝 (hǎishàn)

• Finnish: mureena (fi)
• French: murène (fr) f
• Galician: morea (gl) f
• German: Muräne (de) f
• Greek: σμέρνα (el) f (smérna)

  Ancient: μύραινα f (múraina)

• Hungarian: muréna (hu)
• Italian: murena (it) f
• Japanese: 鱓 (ja) (ウツボ, うつぼ, utsubo)
• Latin: mūraena f
• Polish: murena (pl) f
• Portuguese: moreia (pt) f
• Russian: муре́на (ru) f (muréna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: му̀рина

  Roman: mùrina (sh)

• Spanish: morena (es) f
• Swedish: muräna (sv) c
• Turkish: müren balığı

Anagrams

• Amory, Mayor, Raymo, mayor