# moor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General Australian) IPA: /moː/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /moː/, [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
* (Received Pronunciation)
** (pour–poor merger) IPA: /mɔː/
** (without the pour–poor merger) IPA: /mʊə/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /mʉːɹ/
* (Ireland) IPA: /muːɹ/
* (US)
** (pour–poor merger) IPA: /moɹ/
** (without the pour–poor merger) IPA: /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophones: Moore; more (pour–poor merger); maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger); mooer (some accents)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

#### Noun

moor (plural moors)
* An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
    A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
    In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
** 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
** 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
* A game preserve consisting of moorland.

##### Derived terms

* Alston Moor
* Blea Moor
* Bodmin Moor
* Buckland in the Moor
* Clayton-le-Moors
* Cleator Moor
* Clifton Moor
* Cranmoor
* Crosland Moor
* Dartmoor
* Draycott in the Moors
* East Moors
* Exmoor
* Goss Moor
* Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
* Holton le Moor
* Lower Moor
* Low Moor
* moor buzzard
* moor grass
* moorhen
* moorland
* moor macaque
* Moor Monkton
* Moor Park
* Moor Row
* moortop
* Rannoch Moor
* Thornton-le-Moors (Cheshire)
* Ushaw Moor
* West Moor
* West Moors
* Widecombe in the Moor

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

#### Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)
* (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
    The vessel moored in the stream.
* (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
    They moored the boat to the wharf.
** 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.
* (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

##### Antonyms

* unmoor

##### Coordinate terms

* berth
* cleat
* dock

##### Derived terms

* mooring
* mooring buoy
* mooring can
* mooring post
* moor up
* unmoor
* unmoored

##### Translations

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### Further reading

* Guus Kroonen (2013) “mairja-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

### Anagrams

* Moro, Romo, room

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden, from Proto-Germanic *murþijaną. The lacking -d can be explained either phonetically or morphologically. The first would mean reduction of originally intervocalic rd (as in pêre, informal plural of perd). The second would mean backformation at a time when various verb forms of the present and past took the prefixes -t, -d, -de (now still in die vermoorde (“the murder victim”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʊə̯r/

### Verb

moor (present moor, present participle moordende or (rare) morende, past participle gemoor)
* (intransitive) to murder

#### Derived terms

* vermoor

#### Related terms

* moord

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
* something black, notably a black horse
* a whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

#### Synonyms

* (kettle): fluitketel

#### Derived terms

* moorkop

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: Moor

### Anagrams

* room

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːr/

### Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)
* (derogatory) an elderly woman; a crone

#### Declension
## Gagauz
### Etymology

Cognate to Turkmen mōr.

### Adjective

moor
* purple
** 2013 January 15, Todur Zanet, “Mihai Aminesku: Sabaa Yıldızı (Luçafar)”, in Ana Sözü (Usenet):Kıvrak boylu, altın saçlı, Durêr o voevod gibi; Çıplak omuzunda baalı Mos-moor-maavi ölü bezi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 178

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō. Cognates include West Frisian mear and German mehr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːr/
* Hyphenation: moor
* Rhymes: -oːr

### Determiner

moor
* comparative degree of fúul; more

### Pronoun

moor
* comparative degree of fúul; more

### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “moor”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN