different between merganser vs murre

English

Etymology

From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from merg? (“to dip, immerse”) + ?nser (“goose”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m????ans?/
• Rhymes: -æns?(r)

Noun

merganser (plural mergansers)

1. Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.

Synonyms

• (Eurasian) goosander, Mergus merganser

Derived terms

• †Auckland merganser (also Auckland Islands merganser), Mergus australis (extinct)
• Brazilian merganser, Mergus octosetaceus
• common merganser, Mergus merganser
• hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus
• red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator
• scaly-sided merganser, Mergus squamatus
• typical merganser, Mergus

Translations

See also

• smew, Mergellus albellus (also sometimes Mergus albellus)
• Zwergsäger, Mergellus albellus

English

Etymology

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: murr, myrrh

Noun

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,

     About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,

     Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

Synonyms

• (any bird of genus Uria): guillemot

Derived terms

• thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia)
• common murre (Uria aalge)

Translations

See also

• merganser
• razorbill (relative)

Anagrams

• Rumer

Estonian

Noun

murre (genitive murde, partitive murret)

1. dialect

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• murre in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Finnish

(index mu)

Etymology 1

murtaa +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mur?e?/, [?mur?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ur?e
• Syllabification: mur?re

Noun

murre

1. dialect

Declension

Compounds

Etymology 2

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mur?e/, [?mur?e?]
• Rhymes: -ur?e
• Syllabification: mur?re

Noun

murre

1. (dialectal) dog, pooch

Declension

German

Pronunciation

Verb

murre

1. inflection of murren:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Ingrian

Noun

murre

1. dialect

Middle English

Noun

murre

1. Alternative form of mirre