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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
Adjective
murk (comparative murker, superlative murkest)
- Dark, murky.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Noun
murk (uncountable)
- Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- Synonym: gloom
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] in murk and occidental damp
Derived terms
Translations
darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment
Etymology 3
From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons:Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
Translations
to make murky or to be murky
Etymology 4
Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary.
Verb
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High:cause we be murkin from the boogie
And shittin on the crowds
'cause they jive fakin woody.
2010, Dana Dane, Numbers, page 232:That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles, volume 2:He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.
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