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Mandarin
Romanization
mòr (mor4, Zhuyin ㄇㄛˋㄦ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 末兒／末儿
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse mǫrr, from Proto-Germanic *marhwaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
mòr m (definite singular mòren or moren, indefinite plural mòrar or morar, definite plural mòrane or morane)
- A traditional Norwegian cured sausage made of meat and intestines from sheep, cow and pig.
Derived terms
Portuguese
Adjective
mòr (invariable)
- Obsolete spelling of mor.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish mór. Cognates include Irish mór and Manx mooar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoːɾ/
- Hyphenation: mòr
Adjective
mòr (comparative motha or mò, qualitative noun motha or mò)
- big, large, great
- great, important
Declension
Declension of mòr (type I adjective)
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “mòr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Colin Mark (2003) “mòr”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →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