mór

From Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania”), from Ancient Greek Μαῦρος (Maûros), also via German Mohr.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːr]
• Hyphenation: mór
• Rhymes: -oːr

mór (not comparable)

1. (historical) Moorish (of or relating to the Moors or their culture)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mór	mórok
accusative	mórt	mórokat
dative	mórnak	móroknak
instrumental	mórral	mórokkal
causal-final	mórért	mórokért
translative	mórrá	mórokká
terminative	mórig	mórokig
essive-formal	mórként	mórokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mórban	mórokban
superessive	móron	mórokon
adessive	mórnál	móroknál
illative	mórba	mórokba
sublative	mórra	mórokra
allative	mórhoz	mórokhoz
elative	mórból	mórokból
delative	mórról	mórokról
ablative	mórtól	móroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	móré	móroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	móréi	mórokéi

mór (plural mórok)

1. (historical) Moor

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mór	mórok
accusative	mórt	mórokat
dative	mórnak	móroknak
instrumental	mórral	mórokkal
causal-final	mórért	mórokért
translative	mórrá	mórokká
terminative	mórig	mórokig
essive-formal	mórként	mórokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mórban	mórokban
superessive	móron	mórokon
adessive	mórnál	móroknál
illative	mórba	mórokba
sublative	mórra	mórokra
allative	mórhoz	mórokhoz
elative	mórból	mórokból
delative	mórról	mórokról
ablative	mórtól	móroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	móré	móroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	móréi	mórokéi

Possessive forms of mór
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mórom	mórjaim
2nd person sing.	mórod	mórjaid
3rd person sing.	mórja	mórjai
1st person plural	mórunk	mórjaink
2nd person plural	mórotok	mórjaitok
3rd person plural	mórjuk	mórjaik

• mór 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

From Old Norse mór

• IPA^(key): /mouːr/
• Rhymes: -ouːr

mór m (genitive singular mós, nominative plural móar)

1. (also in plural) moor, heath

   Synonyms: mói, mólendi

2. (uncountable) peat

• malda í móinn
• mórauður

• Róm

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠuəɾˠ/ (as if spelled muar)
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠoːɾˠ/

From Old Irish mór, már, from Proto-Celtic *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁ros.

Cognate with Old Welsh maur (Welsh mawr, Cornish maur), Breton meur; Ancient Greek -μωρος (-mōros, “great, famed”) (ἐγχεσί-μωρος (enkhesí-mōros, “great in spear-throwing”)), Old High German māri (“famed”), German Märchen (“a tale”), Old Norse mærr (“famous”), Proto-Slavic *měrъ (Vladimir, etc.), Latin merus, English mere.

mór (genitive singular masculine móir, genitive singular feminine móire, plural móra, comparative mó)

1. big, large, great

• beag

From Old Irish móraid, máraid, from Proto-Celtic *mārāti.

mór (present analytic mórann, future analytic mórfaidh, verbal noun móradh, past participle mórtha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. magnify; exalt, extol
   • 2023, Archdiocese of Dublin, Magnificat‎^[1]:

     Mórann m’anam an Tiarna,
     agus rinne mo spiorad gairdeas i nDia mo Shlánaitheoir.

     My soul doth magnify the Lord,
     and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

2. increase
3. (literary, of festival) celebrate
4. (with as) boast about
5. (with ar) begrudge to

• méadaigh
• mól

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mór, már”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “móraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 68

• máar, már

An irregular change of már (possibly influenced by the comparative/superlative forms with ó) from Proto-Celtic *māros (compare Welsh mawr), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁ros.

Compare Old High German māri (“famous, great”) and perhaps the element -μωρος (-mōros) in Ancient Greek ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros, “mighty with the spear”), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi, “boasting”), σινάμωρος (sinámōros, “mischievous, hurtful”), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros, “always barking”).

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

mór (equative móir, comparative mó, moü, moä, moö, superlative moäm)

1. big, great

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mór.

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mór	mór	mór
Vocative	móir* mór**
Accusative	mór	móir
Genitive	móir	móire	móir
Dative	mór	móir	mór
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	móir	móra
Vocative	móru móra†
Accusative	móru móra†
Genitive	mór
Dative	móraib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

• móraid
• mórchol

• Irish: mór
• Manx: mooar
• Scottish Gaelic: mòr

mór n

1. a large amount, a large number; much, many (with the modified noun in the genitive)

   mór fína ― much wine (literally, “a large amount of wine”)

   mór fer ― many men (literally, “a large number of men”)

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mórN	—	—
Vocative	mórN	—	—
Accusative	mórN	—	—
Genitive	móirL	—	—
Dative	mórL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

·mór

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of móraid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mór, már”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Kim McCone (1994) “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §20.3, pages 124–125

Variant of mǫr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.

mór m (genitive mós, plural móar)

1. a moor, a heath, a barren moorland

• Icelandic: mór
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mo
• Norwegian Bokmål: mo

• mór in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *morъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmur/

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• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: mór
• Homophone: mur

mór m inan

1. (dated) plague, murrain

   Synonyms: pomór, zaraza

• mór in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mór in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mór (invariable)

1. Obsolete spelling of mor.

Inherited from Latin mōrus (“mulberry tree”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈmoːɾ]

mór m (plural mur) (Central Romagna)

1. mulberry tree

• IPA^(key): [moːɾ]

mór (comparative and superlative forms motha, also mó)

1. Dated form of mòr.