moor

See also: Moor, мөөг, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /moː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /moː/, [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mɔː/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mʊə/

  • Audio (UK):

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /mʉːɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /muːɹ/
• (US)
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mɔɹ/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /mʊ(ə)ɹ/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: Moore; more (pour–poor merger); maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger); mooer (some accents)

Etymology 1

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

Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester

moor (plural moors)

1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

   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.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Derived terms

• Alston Moor
• Blea Moor
• Bodmin Moor
• Buckland in the 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

region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath

• Arabic: بِرْكَة f (birka), سَبْخَة f (sabḵa), مُسْتَنْقَع m (mustanqaʕ)
• Breton: lann (br) m
• Catalan: erm (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荒澤／荒泽 (huāngzé), 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì)

• Czech: vřesoviště n
• Danish: hede (da) c
• Dutch: veen (nl) n
• Esperanto: stepo (eo), plataĵo, erikejo
• Estonian: raba (et), nõmm (et), soo (et)
• Finnish: nummi (fi)
• French: lande (fr) f
• Galician: braña (gl) f, illó m, groto (gl) m, lagumeira f, lenteiro m, lameira m, bulleiro (gl) m, marnel, páramo (gl) m
• Georgian: ტორფნარი (ṭorpnari)
• German: Hochmoor (de) n
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu), láp (hu), ingovány (hu)
• Icelandic: mýri (is) f, heiði f
• Irish: móinteán m, caorán m
• Italian: landa (it) f, brughiera (it) f
• Japanese: 荒野 (ja) (あらの, arano, こうや, kōya), 荒れ地 (あれち, arechi, こうち, kōchi)
• Latin: loca fruticetis obsita
• Macedonian: голет m (golet)
• Norman: lande f
• Norwegian: lynghei
• Old Irish: slíab m or n
• Polish: wrzosowisko (pl) n, torfowisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: charneca (pt) f
• Russian: ве́ресковая пу́стошь f (véreskovaja pústošʹ), пу́стошь (ru) f (pústošʹ)
• Scots: muir
• Scottish Gaelic: monadh m, sliabh m, mòinteach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вресиште n, вријесиште n

  Roman: vresište n, vrijesište n

• Spanish: brezal m, pantano (es) m, turbera f
• Swedish: hed (sv) c, ljunghed (sv) c
• Tagalog: labon
• Turkish: kır (tr)
• Welsh: gwaun f, rhos f
• Zazaki: teverge

game preserve

• Russian: охо́тничье уго́дье n (oxótničʹje ugódʹje), уча́сток для охо́ты m (učástok dlja oxóty)

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• Italian: (2) ^{(please verify)} brughiera (it) f

Etymology 2

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”).

Some boats moored off Chicago

Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

1. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.

   The vessel moored in the stream.

3. (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.

4. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Antonyms

• unmoor

 

Coordinate terms

• berth
• cleat
• dock

 

Derived terms

• mooring
• mooring buoy
• mooring can
• mooring post
• moor up
• unmoor
• unmoored

 

Translations

to cast anchor or become fastened

• Bulgarian: акостирам (bg) (akostiram), приставам (pristavam)
• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 系泊 (jìbó), 泊 (zh) (bó), 停泊 (zh) (tíngbó)

• Danish: lægge til, fortøje (da)
• Dutch: aanmeren (nl), aanleggen (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittyä (fi), ankkuroitua
• French: mouiller (fr), amarrer (fr), ancrer (fr)
• Galician: fondear (gl), ancorar (gl)
• German: anlegen (de), ankern (de)
• Hungarian: kiköt (hu)
• Ido: amaragar (io)
• Italian: ancorare (it), attraccare (it)
• Japanese: 停泊する (ja) (ていはくする, teihaku suru)
• Norwegian: legge til, fortøye
• Persian: مهار کردن (mahâr kardan)
• Polish: cumować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ancorar (pt), atracar (pt)
• Russian: прича́лить (ru) pf (pričálitʹ), прича́ливать (ru) impf (pričálivatʹ), стать на я́корь pf (statʹ na jákorʹ), става́ть на я́корь impf (stavátʹ na jákorʹ), пришвартова́ться (ru) pf (prišvartovátʹsja), пришвартовыва́ться (ru) impf (prišvartovyvátʹsja)
• Spanish: anclar (es)
• Swedish: lägga till (sv), förtöja (sv)
• Turkish: yanaşmak (tr)

to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains

• Bulgarian: закотвям (zakotvjam)
• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏔᎳᏗᎠ (ataladia)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 拋碇／抛碇 (zh-min-nan)

• Danish: fortøje (da)
• Dutch: meren (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi), ankkuroida (fi)
• French: ancrer (fr) (with an anchor), amarrer (fr) (with ropes or cables)
• German: vertäuen (de)
• Ido: amaragar (io)
• Irish: feistigh, múráil
• Italian: attraccare (it), ancorarsi
• Japanese: 停泊させる (ja) (ていはくさせる, teihaku saseru)
• Norman: amather
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fortøye

• Polish: cumować (pl) impf, przycumować pf, zacumować pf
• Portuguese: ancorar (pt)
• Russian: ста́вить на я́корь impf (stávitʹ na jákorʹ), поста́вить на я́корь pf (postávitʹ na jákorʹ), швартова́ть (ru) impf (švartovátʹ), пришвартова́ть (ru) pf (prišvartovátʹ), пришвартовыва́ть (ru) impf (prišvartovyvátʹ)
• Spanish: anclar (es) (with an anchor), amarrar (es) (with ropes, cables or chains)
• Swedish: förtöja (sv)
• Ukrainian: швартува́ти impf (švartuváty), пришвартува́ти pf (pryšvartuváty)

to secure or fix firmly

• Catalan: amarrar (ca)
• Dutch: verankeren (nl)
• Finnish: kiinnittää (fi)
• German: festmachen (de)
• Irish: feistigh, fosaigh, suigh, daingnigh
• Portuguese: atracar (pt)
• Russian: крепи́ть (ru) impf (krepítʹ), закрепи́ть (ru) pf (zakrepítʹ), закрепля́ть (ru) impf (zakrepljátʹ)
• Spanish: atar (es), amarrar (es), asegurar (es), fijar (es)

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• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} silduma, ^{(please verify)} otsi kinnitama
• French: ^{(please verify)} amarrer (fr)
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} amarrar (pt)

Further reading

• Guus Kroonen (2013) “mairja-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden, from Proto-Germanic *murþijaną. The lacking -d can be explained either phonetically or morphologically. The first would mean reduction of originally intervocalic rd (as in pêre, informal plural of perd). The second would mean backformation at a time when various verb forms of the present and past took the prefixes -t, -d, -de (now still in die vermoorde (“the murder victim”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊə̯r/

Verb

moor (present moor, present participle moordende or (rare) morende, past participle gemoor)

1. (intransitive) to murder

Derived terms

• vermoor

Related terms

• moord

Dutch

Etymology

From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)

1. something black, notably a black horse
2. a whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Synonyms

• (kettle): fluitketel

Derived terms

• moorkop

Descendants

• Negerhollands: Moor

Anagrams

• room

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

1. (derogatory) an elderly woman; a crone

Declension

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

Gagauz

Etymology

Cognate to Turkmen mōr.

Adjective

moor

1. purple
   • 2013 January 15, Todur Zanet, “Mihai Aminesku: Sabaa Yıldızı (Luçafar)”, in Ana Sözü (Usenet):

     Kıvrak boylu, altın saçlı,
     Durêr o voevod gibi;
     Çıplak omuzunda baalı
     Mos-moor-maavi ölü bezi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 178

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō. Cognates include West Frisian mear and German mehr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːr/
• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Determiner

moor

1. comparative degree of fúul; more

Pronoun

moor

1. comparative degree of fúul; more

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “moor”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN