Moors

From Dutch Moors (“Moorish”), or directly from Moor +‎ -s (after e.g. Scots).

Moors

1. (British India, obsolete) Hindustani; Urdu. [18th–19th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:

     [I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “Moors”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Inflected forms.

Moors

1. plural of Moor

Moors (plural Moorses or Moors)

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from Irish.
   2. An English surname transferred from the given name.

• Moros, rooms, smoor

• IPA^(key): /moːrs/

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Moors

1. a surname

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Moors

1. genitive singular of Moor