Moor
A member of an ancient Amazigh people from MauretaniaA member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
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Meaning
5 senses(historical)A member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.
(historical)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.
Maure, Maurin, Mohr
маврmavr
one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century
(dated)A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
Maure, Maurin, Mohr
маврmavr
маврmavr
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.).
(archaic)A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
Examples
32 sentencesWere you in the moor yesterday?
The moor was covered with heather.
ruБолото было покрыто вереском.
The moor is very sparsely inhabited.
Rodrigo began trekking across the moors.
A ship is moored at the pier.
ruКорабль пришвартован у причала.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English More, Moore, from Old French More (modern French Maure), from Latin MaFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: MoorsSynonyms
1 synonyms- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss:moorland