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):
• Hyphenation: mór
• Rhymes: -oːr

mór (not comparable)

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

mór (plural mórok)

1. (historical) Moor

• 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:

     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.

• 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”)

·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 Pádraig 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):

mór m (plural mur) (Central Romagna)

1. mulberry tree

• IPA^(key):

mór (comparative and superlative forms motha, also mó)

1. Dated form of mòr.