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murva

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English

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit मूर्वा (mūrvā).

Noun

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murva (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of marool

Hungarian

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 murva on Hungarian Wikipedia
 murvalevél on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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First attested in 1332. Borrowed from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *mьrva.[1] Compare Czech mrva, Serbo-Croatian mȑva, Slovak mrva, Ukrainian ме́рва (mérva).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmurvɒ]
  • Hyphenation: mur‧va
  • Rhymes: -vɒ

Noun

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murva (countable and uncountable, plural murvák)

  1. (botany) bract (leaf or leaf-like structure)
    Synonyms: murvalevél, fellevél, előlevél
  2. (regional) rubble (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
    Synonym: zúzottkő
    Coordinate terms: homok, sóder, kavics
  3. (regional) fragments of broken straw, hay, or dry reeds
    Meronyms: szalma, széna, nád

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative murva murvák
accusative murvát murvákat
dative murvának murváknak
instrumental murvával murvákkal
causal-final murváért murvákért
translative murvává murvákká
terminative murváig murvákig
essive-formal murvaként murvákként
essive-modal
inessive murvában murvákban
superessive murván murvákon
adessive murvánál murváknál
illative murvába murvákba
sublative murvára murvákra
allative murvához murvákhoz
elative murvából murvákból
delative murváról murvákról
ablative murvától murváktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
murváé murváké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
murváéi murvákéi
Possessive forms of murva
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. murvám murváim
2nd person sing. murvád murváid
3rd person sing. murvája murvái
1st person plural murvánk murváink
2nd person plural murvátok murváitok
3rd person plural murvájuk murváik

Derived terms

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Compound words with this term at the beginning

References

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  1. ^ murva in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • murva in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • murva in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin mōrus. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mûːrʋa/
  • Hyphenation: mur‧va

Noun

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mȗrva f (Cyrillic spelling му̑рва)

  1. mulberry
    Synonym: dȕd

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “murva”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 644

Further reading

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  • murva”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Latin morus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mȗrva f

  1. mulberry

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. múrva
gen. sing. múrve
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
múrva múrvi múrve
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
múrve múrv múrv
dative
(dajȃlnik)
múrvi múrvama múrvam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
múrvo múrvi múrve
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
múrvi múrvah múrvah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
múrvo múrvama múrvami

Further reading

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  • murva”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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murva c

  1. (slang, vulgar) a pussy, a snatch (female genitalia)
  2. (slang, vulgar) a bush (woman's pubic hair)

Declension

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Traveller Norwegian

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Etymology

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Probably from Finnish.

Noun

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murva

  1. berry