Moor

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɔː/, /mʊə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mʊɹ/, /mɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)

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.

Moor (plural Moors)

1. (historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania.
2. (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber 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?

3. (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
4. (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber 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.).

• Morian

Moor (plural Moors)

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from Irish.
   2. An English surname transferred from the given name.

• Moro, Romo, room

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

• IPA^(key): /moːr/

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• Hyphenation: Moor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Moor m (plural Moren, diminutive Moortje n, feminine Morin)

1. (historical) A Moor (member of a Berber people from western North Africa, also ruling parts of Spain during the Middle Ages).
2. (archaic, offensive) A black person, a negro.

• moor
• moorkop
• Moors
• Morenland
• moriaan

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

• IPA^(key): /moːɐ̯/

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• Homophone: Mohr
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Moor n (strong, genitive Moores or Moors, plural Moore)

1. marsh, mire, bog
2. (Hochmoor) moor
3. (Flachmoor) fen

• Fenn

• Lebensraum

• Moorhuhnjagd

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