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 Berber people from Mauretania.
- (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?
- (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
- (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber 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.).
Translations
a member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people
Translations to be checked
Noun
Moor n (strong, genitive Moores or Moors, plural Moore)
- marsh, mire, bog
- (Hochmoor) moor
- (Flachmoor) fen
Declension
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Declension of Moor [neuter, strong]
Hyponyms
Hyponyms of Moor
- 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
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