# mural
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈmjʊɹəl/, /ˈmjɝəl/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈmjʉːɹəl/
* (Ireland) IPA: /ˈmjuːɹəl/
* Rhymes: -ʊəɹəl

### Noun

mural (plural murals)
* A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.

#### Translations
### Adjective

mural (not comparable)
* Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
    a mural quadrant
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 878–879:Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.
** 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [February.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 10:[Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]
* Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
    a mural precipice

#### Derived terms

* mural circle
* mural crown

### Verb

mural (third-person singular simple present murals, present participle (UK) muralling or (US) muraling, simple past and past participle (UK) muralled or (US) muraled)
* To create a mural.
** 1987, Cahners Publishing Company, Restaurants & Institutions, Volume 97, Issues 5-7
    Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.
** 2014, Whittaker Chambers, Witness‎:Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.

### Anagrams

* larum, rumal

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin murālis. First attested in 1839.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [muˈɾal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: mu‧ral

### Adjective

mural m or f (masculine and feminine plural murals)
* mural

### Noun

mural m (plural murals)
* mural

### References

* ↑ “mural”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “mural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French mural, borrowed from Latin murālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my.ʁal/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

mural (feminine murale, masculine plural muraux, feminine plural murales)
* mural

#### Related terms

* mur
* muraille

### Further reading

* “mural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* murail

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin muralis.

### Noun

mural oblique singular, m (oblique plural muraus or murax or murals, nominative singular muraus or murax or murals, nominative plural mural)
* wall; especially a large one

#### Descendants

* French: mural

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English mural, from French mural, from Old French mural, from Latin mūrālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu.ral/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ural
* Syllabification: mu‧ral

### Noun

mural m inan
* mural (painting on wall)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* mural in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* mural in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /muˈɾaw/ [muˈɾaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈɾal/ [muˈɾaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈɾal/ [muˈɾaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /muˈɾa.li/
* Homophone: moral (Portugal)
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: mu‧ral

### Noun

mural m (plural murais)
* mural

#### Related terms

* muralha
* muro

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French mural or Latin muralis.

### Adjective

mural m or n (feminine singular murală, masculine plural murali, feminine and neuter plural murale)
* mural

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From muro +‎ -al, or from Latin murālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muˈɾal/ [muˈɾal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: mu‧ral

### Adjective

mural m or f (masculine and feminine plural murales)
* mural

### Noun

mural m (plural murales)
* mural

#### Related terms

* antemural
* muralismo
* muralista
* muralla
* muro

### Further reading

* “mural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10