mór

From Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania”), from Ancient Greek Μαῦρος (Maûros), also via German Mohr.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːr]
• Hyphenation: mór
• Rhymes: -oːr

mór (not comparable)

1. (historical) Moorish (of or relating to the Moors or their culture)

mór (plural mórok)

1. (historical) Moor

• mór in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /mouːr/
• Rhymes: -ouːr

mór m (genitive singular mós, nominative plural móar)

1. (also in plural) moor, heath

   Synonyms: mói, mólendi

2. (uncountable) peat

• malda í móinn
• mórauður

• Róm

• (Ulster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mˠoːɾˠ/
• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠuəɾˠ/ (as if spelled muar)

From Old Irish mór, már, from Proto-Celtic *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁ros.

Cognate with Old Welsh maur (Welsh mawr, Cornish maur), Breton meur; Ancient Greek -μωρος (-mōros, “great, famed”) (ἐγχεσί-μωρος (enkhesí-mōros, “great in spear-throwing”)), Old High German māri (“famed”), German Märchen (“a tale”), Old Norse mærr (“famous”), Proto-Slavic *měrъ (Vladimir, etc.), Latin merus, English mere.

mór (genitive singular masculine móir, genitive singular feminine móire, plural móra, comparative mó)

1. big, large, great

• beag

From Old Irish móraid, máraid, from Proto-Celtic *mārāti.

mór (present analytic mórann, future analytic mórfaidh, verbal noun móradh, past participle mórtha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. magnify; exalt, extol
   • 2023, Archdiocese of Dublin, Magnificat‎:

     Mórann m’anam an Tiarna,
     agus rinne mo spiorad gairdeas i nDia mo Shlánaitheoir.

     My soul doth magnify the Lord,
     and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

2. increase
3. (literary, of festival) celebrate
4. (with as) boast about
5. (with ar) begrudge to

• méadaigh
• mól

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mór, már”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “móraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• máar, már

An irregular change of már (possibly influenced by the comparative/superlative forms with ó) from Proto-Celtic *māros (compare Welsh mawr), from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁ros.

Compare Old High German māri (“famous, great”) and perhaps the element -μωρος (-mōros) in Ancient Greek ἐγχεσίμωρος (enkhesímōros, “mighty with the spear”), ἰόμωροι (iómōroi, “boasting”), σινάμωρος (sinámōros, “mischievous, hurtful”), ὑλακόμωρος (hulakómōros, “always barking”).

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

mór (equative móir, comparative mó, moü, moä, moö, superlative moäm)

1. big, great
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 26^d19

     Is mór in dethiden file domsa diibsi.

     Great is the solicitude that I have for you.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

     Amal du·berad nech hi ceist do Dauid: “Húare is móir sléb⟨e⟩ fírinne Dǽ, cid ara fodmai-siu, ⟨a⟩ Dauid, didiu a ndu imnedaib ⁊ frithoircnib fodaimi? Air it fírián-⟨s⟩u.” Ícaid-som didiu anísin, a n-as·mbeir iudicia Domini abisus multa .i. ataat mesai Dǽ nephchomtetarrachti amal abis ⁊ amal fudumain. Is ed in sin fod·era in n-erígim, cid ara fodaim int aís fírián inna fochaidi, ⁊ cid ara mbiat in pecthaig isnaib soinmechaib.

     As though someone had put as a question to David: “Because God’s righteousness is as great as a mountain, why then, David, dost thou suffer what of afflictions and injuries thou sufferest? For thou art righteous.” He solves that then when he says “iudicia Domini abyssus multa”, i.e. there are judgments of God incomprehensible like an abyss and like a depth. That is what causes the complaint why the righteous folk endure tribulations, and why sinners are in prosperity.

• móraid

• Irish: mór
• Manx: mooar
• Scottish Gaelic: mòr

mór n

1. a large amount, a large number; much, many (with the modified noun in the genitive)

   mór fína ― much wine (literally, “a large amount of wine”)

   mór fer ― many men (literally, “a large number of men”)

·mór

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of móraid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mór, már”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Kim McCone (1994), “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §20.3, pages 124–125

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mór m (genitive mós, plural móar)

1. a moor, a heath, a barren moorland

• Icelandic: mór
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mo
• Norwegian Bokmål: mo

• mór in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *morъ, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

• IPA^(key): /mur/

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• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: mór
• Homophone: mur

mór m inan

1. (dated) plague, murrain

   Synonyms: pomór, zaraza

• mór in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mór in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mór (invariable)

1. Obsolete spelling of mor

Inherited from Latin mōrus (“mulberry tree”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈmoːɾ]

mór m (plural mur) (Central Romagna)

1. mulberry tree

• IPA^(key): [moːɾ]

mór (comparative and superlative forms motha, also mó)

1. Dated form of mòr.