moor

 

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• (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/

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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/

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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)

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.

 

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.

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”).

 

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.

• 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

• Moro, Romo, room

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”)).

• IPA^(key): /mʊə̯r/

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

1. (intransitive) to murder

• vermoor

• moord

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

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

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• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

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

• (kettle): fluitketel

• moorkop

• Negerhollands: Moor

• room

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

1. (derogatory) an elderly woman; a crone

Cognate to Turkmen mōr.

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)

• 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

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

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

moor

1. comparative degree of fúul; more

moor

1. comparative degree of fúul; more

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