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From Japanese 斑 (mura, literally “blemish, fluctuation”).

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (particularly: /u/ seems unlikely) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɹə/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

mura (uncountable)

1. Nonuniformity in the luminance of a display device.

   US Patent 5,917,935, Mura detection apparatus and method, 1996 :

   Major classes of LCFPD defects encountered at the final inspection are often pixel defects or wide-area pixel defects (also known as Mura defects).

   NASA Scientific and Technical Information, 2008 :

   Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection

2. (business) A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when inventory is required but not immediately available.

   Coordinate terms: muda, muri

• 'umra, Amur, Maru, Umar, amur, arum, maru

mura

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

• murag, mura'g — with og, combining form

Univerbation of mao ra (“just the same”).

• IPA^(key): /muˈɾa/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾa/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ra

murá or mura (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. (colloquial) seem, like, looks like

   Synonyms: daw, sama, ingon, sahi, nawong

   Mura siya'g gikapoy. ― S/he seemed tired.

   Ang kinabuhi murag bulak ― Life is like a flower.

   Moadto ka? – Mura.

   Will you go? – It looks like I will.

2. (colloquial) as if, as though

   Synonyms: mura ba, sahi

   Nagbuotbuot siya murag kinsa. ― He took it upon himself as though he were someone.

3. (uncommon) Short for mao ra (“that's all; the same”).

From Proto-Finnic *mura, probably from the same Proto-Uralic *mura- (“to break”) as murtaa, or alternatively from Proto-Germanic (compare Icelandic mor).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurɑ/,
• Rhymes: -urɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧ra

mura

1. gravel, sediment

• “mura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Amur, ruma

• IPA^(key): /my.ʁa/

• Audio:

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mura

1. third-person singular past historic of murer

mura

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

• IPA^(key): /muɺa/

mura

1. to be burned

   Synonym: tlhoshô

Cognate with Faroese mura, Norwegian Nynorsk mure, Norwegian Bokmål mure.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʏːra/
• Rhymes: -ʏːra

mura f (genitive singular muru, nominative plural murur)

1. cinquefoil, potentilla (plant of the genus Potentilla)

• blóðmura (“tormentil (Potentilla erecta)”)
• gullmura (“alpine cinquefoil (Potentilla crantzii)”)
• runnamura (“shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)”)
• skeljamura (“Eged's silverweed (Argentina egedii)”)
• tágamura (“silverweed Argentina anserina (syn. Potentilla anserina)”)

• mara (Cois Fharraige)
• muna

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊɾˠə/
• (Ulster, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠəɾˠ/^[1]

mura (triggers eclipsis; takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

1. if... not, unless

   mura mbainfidh taisme dó ― unless he meets with an accident

   Mura gceannaíonn siad anseo é, faigheann siad sa bhaile é.

   If they don’t buy it here, they get it in town.

   Mura raibh tú sásta leis, cad chuige ar ghlac tú é?

   If you weren’t satisfied with it, why did you accept it?

   Mura dtéinn leis, maraítí é

   If I hadn’t gone with him, he would have been killed

• Not used before the past tense except with some irregular verbs.

• murar (used before the past tense of regular and some irregular verbs)

mura (copular form used before consonants, form used before vowels murab)

1. if... is not, unless... is (present copular form before a consonant)

   mura bréag é ― if it is not a lie

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mura”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mura”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mura”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: mù‧ra

mura f pl

1. plural of muro (“wall”)
2. (plural only) city walls, battlements

mura

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

mura

1. Rōmaji transcription of むら

mura

1. water

• Philippson, Gérard, Gens des bananeraies. Contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimandjaro (1984, 'cahier' 16, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations)

mura f

1. definite singular of mure

mura

1. past tense of mure
2. supine of mure

From Old Norse múra.

mura (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mura/mur)

1. alternative form of mure

From Old Norse mura.

mura f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer or muror, definite plural murene or murone)

1. definite singular of mure
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of mure

• “mura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mur

• IPA^(key):

mura f (plural muras)

1. (Guardiol) wall

• mūri

From Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, borrowed from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-.

mūra f

1. wall

• Middle High German: mūre, miure, mūr, miur
  • Alemannic German: Muur
  • Central Franconian: Mouer (Moselle)
    • Hunsrik: Mauer
    • Luxembourgish: Mauer
  • German: Mauer
  • Rhine Franconian: Mauer, Muur
    • Frankfurterisch:
  • Yiddish: מויער (moyer)
  • → Polish: mur (see there for further descendants)

• "mūra" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mura f (genitive muru)

1. silvergrass, goosegrass

• “mura”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Hyphenation: mu‧ra

mura

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

From moare (“sauerkraut brine”), probably from Latin muries, muria.

a mura (third-person singular present mură, past participle murat) 1st conj.

1. to pickle

• murat
• murătură

mura

1. water

• Philippson, Gérard, Gens des bananeraies. Contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimandjaro (1984, 'cahier' 16, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations)

• mur

• IPA^(key): /muɾə/

mura

1. not, unless

• This is the negative form of the conjunctions ma (“if”).
• Also used as the negative form of conjunctions nan/nam ("if" in conditional clauses).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: mu‧ra

mura

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

mur (“(free-standing) wall, brick”) +‎ -a

mura (present murar, preterite murade, supine murat, imperative mura)

1. (usually with a particle) to brick, to wall (build with bricks)

   mura igen/för

   brick up

   mura in

   immure

   mura fast

   fix in position with bricks and/or mortar

   en murad skorsten

   a brick chimney

• mura för
• mura igen
• mura in

• tegelsten (“brick”)
• murbruk (“mortar”)

• mura in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mura in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mora — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Uncertain. Dempwolff 1934-1938 posited this (along with the Malay etymon and cognates in Javanese, Malagasy, Ngaju Dayak and Toba Dayak) to be inherited from Proto-Austronesian *mudaq (“cheap; easy”), but this would result in the Tagalog being *murà (/ˈmuɾaʔ/). Blust 2010- posits this (and cognates) are a possibly a borrowing from Malay murah.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: mu‧ra

mura (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. cheap

   Synonym: barato

   Antonym: mahal

Clipping of alimura or possibly similar to etymology 1, with the sense of degrading someone's worth. Compare mahal (“precious; high value; love”), Bikol Central muda (“swear word”), Hiligaynon mulay (“to criticize maliciously; to disparage”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾa/ , /muˈɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾa, -a
• Syllabification: mu‧ra

mura or murá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. swear word; slander; vulgarity
2. (Batangas) scolding; reprimand

   Synonyms: sigaw, sabon, sermon

Cognate of Malay muda. Either from:

• From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda (“young (of fruits); immature; light (of colors)”)
• From Pali muddha (“foolish, bewildered”), from Sanskrit मुग्ध (mugdha, “foolish, bewildered, young”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾaʔ/
• Rhymes: -uɾaʔ
• Syllabification: mu‧ra

murà (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. (dialectal, Southern Tagalog) (young fruit of) coconut

   Synonym: buko

2. young (particularly of fruit, or human age)

   Synonym: bata

murà (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. young

   Synonym: bata

2. unripe (of fruits)

   Synonyms: hilaw, bubot

3. light (of colors)

   Synonym: mapusyaw

   Antonym: magulang

• “mura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• marra, murra

From Proto-Central New South Wales *mara, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *mara (compare Gamilaraay mara).

mura

1. hand