muur

• IPA^(key): [myr]

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muur (plural mure)

1. wall

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /myr/, [myːr]

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• Hyphenation: muur
• Rhymes: -yr

From Middle Dutch muur, mure, from Old Dutch *mūr, *mūra, from Latin mūrus.

muur m (plural muren, diminutive muurtje n)

1. A physical wall.
2. Any immaterial (legal, mental...) barrier which limits access.
3. A type of fast-food vending machine with compartments arranged similar to a wall that contain snacks (chiefly in the phrase "uit de muur trekken").

• buitenmuur
• grensmuur
• keermuur
• muuranker
• muurbloem
• ommuren
• snackmuur
• stadsmuur
• tolmuur

• Afrikaans: muur
• Negerhollands: muur

From Proto-West Germanic *meur-, of unknown origin, possibly a substrate word given the limited geographical distribution.

muur m (plural muren, diminutive muurtje n)

1. chickweed

From Old Dutch mūr, mūra, from Latin mūrus.

muur f or m

1. wall

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• mure
• muer

• Dutch: muur
  • Afrikaans: muur
  • Negerhollands: muur
• Limburgish: moer
• West Flemish: meur

• “muur (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “muur (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

muur (plural baar)

1. person

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN