# مور
## Baluchi
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *marwíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *marwíš, from Proto-Indo-European *morwi-.

### Noun

مور • (mor)
* ant

### See also

* مورینک (morínk)

## Gojri
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑁄𑀭 (mora), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayū́ra).

### Noun

مور (mor) m
* peacock, peafowl

### Further reading

* Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 417.
* Javaid Rahi (2015) “مَور”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 817, column 1.
* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mayūˊra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 566

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic من وراء

### Preposition

مور • (transliteration needed)
* behind
    Synonyms: مورا (mun), ورا (wra)
    Antonyms: قدام (quddām), قبالة (qbālt)
    الدوّار جا مور الجبال. ― dduwwar ja mur jjbal ― The village is located behind the mountains.
* after
    Synonyms: مورا (mun), بعد (beʕd)
    Antonym: قبل (qbel)
    غادي ناكلو مور ما نغسلو يدّينا.ɣadi naklu mur ma nɣeslu yeddinaWe will eat after we wash our hands.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Cognate with Azerbaijani mor (“violet”), Turkmen mor (“reddish-brown, rust-colored”), Nogai моры (morı), мору (moru, “brown; maroon”), Karachay-Balkar мор (mor, “brown”), Kyrgyz мор (mor, “a dark brown dye”).
Often considered a borrowing from a violet berry name in an Indo-European language: compare Armenian մոր (mor), dialectal մոռ (moṙ, “blackberry; raspberry; wild strawberry”), Ancient Greek μόρον (móron, “black mulberry; blackberry”), Italian moro (“black mulberry tree”).

### Noun

مور • (mor)
* violet color or dye, violet, purple

### Adjective

مور • (mor)
* violet-colored

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mor
* → Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: مۆر (mor)
    Northern Kurdish: mor
* → Middle Armenian: մօռ (mōṙ, “violet”)
** Armenian: մոռ (moṙ)

### See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text) :
| آق (ak) | بوز (boz) | قره (kara) |
| قزل (kızıl); آل (al) | ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur) | صاری (sarı) |
| | یشیل (yeşil) | |
| | گوك (gök) | ماوی (mavi) |
| مور (mor) | افلاطون (eflatun) | پنبه (pembe) |

### Further reading

* Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 330
* Eren, Hasan (1999) “mor”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 296–297
* Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 80–81
* Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 3440b
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2026b
* Stachowski, Marek (2019) “mor”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 257b

## Pashto
### Alternative forms

* مېر (mer)

### Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *mor < *mā́dr, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *mā́dər, from Proto-Iranian *máHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mor/

### Noun

مور • (mor) f
* mother

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwl /⁠mōr⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *marwíš (“ant”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [moːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [moːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [moːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [moːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mʊːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [muːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mɵɾ]

### Noun

مور • (môr)
* (archaic in Iran) ant
    Synonym: مورچه (môrče)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑁄𑀭 (mora), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayū́ra).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /moːɾ/

### Noun

مور • (mor) m (Hindi spelling मोर)
* peacock

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “مور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 620