Moors

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English

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Moors

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

References

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

Moors

  1. plural of Moor

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Moors (plural Moorses or Moors)

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

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːrs/
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Proper noun

Moors

  1. a surname

German

Pronunciation

Noun

Moors

  1. genitive singular of Moor
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