morna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese morna.

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) enPR: mŏrnâ, IPA^(key): /məʊˈɹnɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ

Noun

morna (countable and uncountable, plural mornas)

1. (uncountable, music) A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
   • 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), editors, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:

     She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.

2. (countable) A piece of music in this style.

Translations

a genre of Cape Verdean music

• Alemannic German: Morna
• Asturian: morna
• Catalan: morna
• Czech: morna
• Danish: morna
• Dutch: morna
• Esperanto: morna (eo)
• Finnish: morna
• French: morna (fr)
• German: Morna
• Greek: μόρνα (mórna)
• Hungarian: morna (hu)
• Ido: morna
• Italian: morna
• Luxembourgish: Morna
• Malay: morna
• Norwegian: morna
• Polish: morna (pl)
• Portuguese: morna (pt)
• Russian: мо́рна f (mórna)
• Slovene: morna
• Swedish: morna (sv)

Further reading

• morna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Norma, Roman, manor, moran, norma, roman

Galician

Adjective

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• morgna — verb

Verb

morna

1. (impersonal) to dawn (become morning)

   Synonym: daga

Conjugation

Conjugation of morna — impersonal, active (weak class 2)

infinitive	morna
past participle	mornaðr
	indicative			subjunctive
	present	past		present	past
3rd-person singular	mornar	mornaði		morni	mornaði

Derived terms

• mornan f (“dawn”)

Related terms

• morginn m (“morning”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: morgna

Noun

morna

1. accusative plural of morginn
2. genitive plural of morginn

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *murnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think; remember”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan) and English mourn.

Verb

morna

1. (intransitive) to waste away
2. (transitive) to cause to pine

Conjugation

Conjugation of morna — active (weak class 2)

infinitive	morna
present participle	mornandi
past participle	mornaðr
	indicative			subjunctive
	present	past		present	past
1st person singular	morna	mornaða		morna	mornaða
2nd person singular	mornar	mornaðir		mornir	mornaðir
3rd person singular	mornar	mornaði		morni	mornaði
1st person plural	mornum	mornuðum		mornim	mornaðim
2nd person plural	mornið	mornuðuð		mornið	mornaðið
3rd person plural	morna	mornuðu		morni	mornaði
imperative	present
2nd person singular	morna
1st person plural	mornum
2nd person plural	mornið

Conjugation of morna — mediopassive (weak class 2)

infinitive	mornask
present participle	mornandisk
past participle	mornazk
	indicative			subjunctive
	present	past		present	past
1st person singular	mornumk	mornuðumk		mornumk	mornuðumk
2nd person singular	mornask	mornaðisk		mornisk	mornaðisk
3rd person singular	mornask	mornaðisk		mornisk	mornaðisk
1st person plural	mornumsk	mornuðumsk		mornimsk	mornaðimsk
2nd person plural	mornizk	mornuðuzk		mornizk	mornaðizk
3rd person plural	mornask	mornuðusk		mornisk	mornaðisk
imperative	present
2nd person singular	mornask
1st person plural	mornumsk
2nd person plural	mornizk

Related terms

• morn f (“pining away”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: morna

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Portuguese

Etymology

From morno.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/ [ˈmɔɦ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/ [ˈmɔɦ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɻ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.nɐ/

Noun

morna f (plural mornas)

1. (music) morna

Adjective

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

Further reading

• “morna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “morna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• morna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt