# Moor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɔː/, /mʊə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /mʊɹ/, /mɔɹ/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English More, Moore, from Old French More (modern French Maure), from Latin Maurus (“a Moor, meaning a Mauretanian, an inhabitant of Mauretania”), from Ancient Greek Μαυρούσιος (Mauroúsios, “Mauretanian”). Doublet of Moro.

#### Noun

Moor (plural Moors)
* (historical) A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
* (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:[King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary, How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?
* (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
* (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
* A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).

##### Derived terms

* Black Moor
* Moorish
* Moorman
* morris
* morris dancing
* White Moor

##### Translations

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#### See also

* Morian

### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

Moor (plural Moors)
* A surname.
** A surname from Irish.
** An English surname transferred from the given name.

### Anagrams

* Moro, Romo, room

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch moor, from Old French maure, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαῦρος (Maûros).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Moor
* Rhymes: -oːr

### Noun

Moor m (plural Moren, diminutive Moortje n, feminine Morin)
* (historical) a Moor (member of a Berber people from western North Africa, also ruling parts of Spain during the Middle Ages)
* (archaic, offensive) a black person, a negro

#### Derived terms

* moor
* moorkop
* Moors
* Morenland
* moriaan

## German
### Etymology

From Middle Low German mōr, mūr, from Old Saxon mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European. Compare Dutch moer, English moor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːɐ̯/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: Mohr
* Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

### Noun

Moor n (strong, genitive Moores or Moors, plural Moore)
* marsh, mire, bog
* (Hochmoor) moor
* (Flachmoor) fen

#### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

#### Synonyms

* Fenn

#### Hypernyms

* Lebensraum

#### Hyponyms

* Anmoor
* Armmoor
    Sauer-Armmoor
* Durchströmungsmoor
* Hangmoor
* Hochmoor
* Kesselmoor
* Niedermoor
* Quellmoor
* Regenmoor
* Reichmoor
* Überflutungsmoor
* Übergangsmoor
* Verlandungsmoor
* Versumpfungsmoor
* wurzelechtes Hochmoor
* Zwischenmoor
    Basen-Zwischenmoor
    Kalk-Zwischenmoor
    Sauer-Zwischenmoor

#### Derived terms

* Hochmoor
* Moorboden
* Moorbrand
* Mooreidechse
* Moorente
* Moorerde
* Moorfrosch
* Moorgebiet
* Moorhuhn
* moorig
* Moorkolonie
* Moorleiche
* Moorpackung
* Moorpflanze
* Moorschneehuhn
* Moorsiedlung
* Regenmoor
* Zwischenmoor

#### Related terms

* Moorhuhnjagd

### Further reading

* “Moor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Moor” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “Moor” in Duden online
* Moor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$