English Explanatory Dictionary

moor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.)
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. 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.
  3. To secure or fix firmly.
noun
  1. A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
  2. 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.
  3. A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
  4. A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
  5. 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.).
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A surname from Irish.
  3. An English surname transferred from the given name.

Pronunciation

/mʊə/ /mɔː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-moor.wav /mʊ(ə)ɹ/ /moɹ/ en-us-moor.ogg /moː/ [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)] /mʉːɹ/ /muːɹ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Moor.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Moor2.wav /mʊɹ/ /mɔɹ/

Word forms

moor moors mooring moored

Etymology

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.

Antonyms

unmoor

Related words

Morian

Derived words

Alston Moor Barnby Moor Blea Moor Bodmin Moor Broadmoor 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 Lee Moor Lower Moor Low Moor Marston Moor moorball moorband moorberry moorbird moorburn moor buzzard moorcock Moorcroft moorer moor-evil moorfowl moor grass moorhen moorill moorish moorland moorlog moor macaque moorman Moor Monkton moorpan Moor Park Moor Row moorsman moorstone moortop moorwort moory Rannoch Moor Thornton-le-Moors Ushaw Moor West Moor West Moors Widecombe in the Moor moorable moorage mooring mooring buoy

Translations

Belarusian: маўр Chinese Mandarin: 摩爾人 /摩尔人 Czech: Maur Danish: maurer Dutch: Moor Esperanto: maŭro Estonian: maur Faroese: móri Finnish: mauri French: Maure German: Maure German: Maurin German: Mohr German: Mohrin Greek: Μαυριτανός Hindi: मूर Hungarian: mór Icelandic: mári Italian: moro Japanese: ムーア人 Korean: 무어인 Macedonian: Мавр Norwegian Bokmål: maurer Norwegian Nynorsk: maurar Phoenician: 𐤌𐤀𐤄𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤍 Polish: Maur Portuguese: mouro Portuguese: moiro Romanian: maur Russian: мавр Spanish: moro Swedish: mor Ukrainian: мавр
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