Mureș

See also: mures, murés, and mûres

English

The Mureș river in Târgu Mureș

Etymology

From Romanian Mureș. Doublet of Maros.

Proper noun

Mureș

1. A river which runs through Romania, starting in the eastern Carpathians and joining the Tisza in Hungary, being about 761 km (473 mi) long.

   Synonym: Maros

2. A county of Transylvania, Romania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș.

Translations

river in Romania and Hungary

• Bulgarian: Муреш (Mureš)
• German: Mieresch, Marosch, Muresch
• Hungarian: Maros (hu)
• Latin: Marisus
• Polish: Marusza (pl)
• Romanian: Mureș (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: Moriš, Мориш, Муреш

county of Romania

• Hungarian: Maros (hu)
• Romanian: Mureș (ro)

Anagrams

• semur, resum, Reums, serum, Remus, merus, muser, Muser, murse, Sumer, Esrum

Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Either from a substratum language or from a Slavic language or from Hungarian Maros. The o > u sound change is common in Romanian before liquids in borrowings; compare олѣи (olěi) to ulei.

The river was known as Marisus in Latin during antiquity, and mentioned by Herodotus around 484 B.C. as Maris, possibly of Dacian origin, and in the 10th century as "Morisis". It is known as Maros in Hungarian and Mieresch in German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmureʃ/

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Proper noun

Mureș

1. Mureș (river)
2. A county of Mureș County, Romania

Related terms

• Târgu Mureș

See also

• (counties of Romania) județele României; Alba, Arad, Argeș, Bacău, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Botoșani, Brașov, Brăila, București, Buzău, Caraș-Severin, Călărași, Cluj, Constanța, Covasna, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Galați, Giurgiu, Gorj, Harghita, Hunedoara, Ialomița, Iași, Ilfov, Maramureș, Mehedinți, Mureș, Neamț, Olt, Prahova, Satu Mare, Sălaj, Sibiu, Suceava, Teleorman, Timiș, Tulcea, Vaslui, Vâlcea, Vrancea ^{(Category: ro:Counties of Romania) [edit]}