different between foray vs moray

English

Alternative forms

• forrey (15th century)

Etymology

From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *f?dar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *p?y- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English f?dor, f?þor (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?.?e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???.e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

foray (plural forays)

1. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
2. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

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Verb

foray (third-person singular simple present forays, present participle foraying, simple past and past participle forayed)

1. (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
2. (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• maray, muray (archaic)

Etymology

From Portuguese moreia, from Latin mur?na (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (smúraina), from ?????? (smúros, “sea eel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??e?/, /?m???e?/, /m???e?/
• Rhymes: -??e?, -e?

Noun

moray (plural morays)

1. Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.

Synonyms

• moray eel

Derived terms

• green moray
• yellow moray

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References

Anagrams

• Amory, Mayor, Raymo, mayor