murg

English

Noun

murg (uncountable)

1. (Indian cookery) Alternative form of murgh
   • 2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness:

     “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.

Anagrams

• grum

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch merg, from Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch *marg, *merg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos.

Pronunciation

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Noun

murg (uncountable)

1. marrow

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Late Latin monachus.

Alternative forms

• mûng — Gheg
• (plural) munëgj — Buzuku

Noun

murg m (plural murgj)

1. monk
   • 1555, Gjon Buzuku, Meshari, folio 18v, line 13:

     O iuh ћiξe muneћ / e remitah. lutii ꝑ nee

     [O ju gjithë munëgj e remita, lutī për nē]

     O all you monks and hermits, pray for us.

2. (derogatory) loner, recluse, hermit

Adjective

murg (feminine murge)

1. (colloquial, usually before the noun) wretched, miserable

   Synonyms: i mjerë, i shkretë, i zi

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• “murg”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *murga, from *morHgʷo, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)merHgʷ- (compare Old English mierce (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”)).

Adjective

murg (feminine murge)

1. dark, grey

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown. Probably from Paleo-Balkan, akin to Albanian murgash. The word seems to also coincide with several similar words in nearby Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian мургав (murgav), but the relation between them is unclear. Other less probable theories have included a Greek root *μουρικος, perhaps through a Latin intermediate *moricus, instead of morulus, or a Greek root ἀμόργη ("remains of olives") through Latin amurca. However, the fact that it is present in the other Eastern Romance languages such as Aromanian murgu and Megleno-Romanian murg, and is paired with an initial a to form the related word amurg, seems to indicate it is probably an older and inherited word of some kind (compare acasă, afund, aminte), rather than a later Slavic borrowing. Nonetheless, the exact source is as yet uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /murɡ/

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Adjective

murg m or n (feminine singular murgă, masculine plural murgi, feminine and neuter plural murge)

1. reddish-black
2. ash-coloured
3. generally, dark-coloured

Declension

Noun

murg n (plural murguri)

1. (archaic, popular) dusk

Declension

Synonyms

• amurg

Noun

murg m (plural murgi)

1. a dark-coloured horse

Declension

Related terms

• amurg

See also

• brun
• negru

References