mori

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Pronunciation

Verb

mori

  1. inflection of morir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

mori

  1. goby fish; a kind of fat freshwater fish

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French mœurs and Latin mōrēs +‎ -i (plural ending).

Pronunciation

Noun

mori pl

  1. (plural only) manners, habits, conduct considered from the moral point of view

Derived terms

  • bona mori (good morals, habits or customs)
  • morala (habitual, customary)

See also

Indonesian

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Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ri

Noun

mori (first-person possessive moriku, second-person possessive morimu, third-person possessive morinya)

  1. white cambric

Descendants

  • Min Nan: 毛里 (mo͘-lí)

Further reading

Italian

Noun

mori m

  1. plural of moro

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mori

  1. Rōmaji transcription of もり

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mōōri as an equivalent of English heifer in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kamolli as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

This o is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (fire), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (man's name), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mori class 9/10 (plural mori)

  1. young cow, heifer[2]
    Hypernym: ng'ombe

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 233, 246.
  3. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  4. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

Latin

Verb

morī

  1. present active infinitive of morior
    Memento mori
    Remember to die

Noun

mōrī

  1. dative singular of mōs
  2. inflection of mōrus:
    1. nominative plural
    2. genitive singular
    Bombyx mori
    silkworm of mulberry
  3. genitive singular of mōrum

References

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mori

  1. Superseded spelling of móri.

Romanian

Pronunciation

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Verb

mori

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of muri

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mori (Cyrillic spelling мори)

  1. dative/locative singular of mora

Verb

mori (Cyrillic spelling мори)

  1. inflection of moriti:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Slovak

Noun

mori

  1. locative singular of more

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic .

Pronunciation

Noun

mori (n class, plural mori)

  1. tallow

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

Pronunciation

Verb

mori

  1. to die
    Li viye djin a morou a septante-cénk ans.
    The old lady died at seventy-five years old.