different between mora vs mogra

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

Noun

mora (plural morae or moras)

1. (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
2. (poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
   • 1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:

     In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.

3. (phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).

Derived terms

See also

• syllable

Etymology 2

New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

Noun

mora (plural moras)

1. (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
   • 1904, W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest

     At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mora (plural moras)

1. The common mora (Mora moro)

Synonyms

• (common mora): ribaldo, goodly-eyed cod (US), googly-eyed cod (NZ)

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

mora (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of morra (finger-counting game)

Etymology 5

From the Ancient Greek ???? (móra).

Noun

mora (plural morai)

1. (historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

Translations

Anagrams

• Amor, Omar, Oram, Roma, moar, roam, roma

Albanian

Etymology

See Albanian marr (“I take”).

Verb

móra (first-person singular past tense móra, participle márrë)

1. first-person singular active aorist indicative of marr (I took)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Latin m?ra

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?m?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?.?a/

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. (law) delay

   Synonym: demora

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?mo.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mo.?a/

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of móra (“blackberry, mulberry”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?m?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?.?a/

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. female equivalent of moro (“moor”)

Further reading

• “mora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “mora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo?ra

Noun

mora

1. vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mor?/, [?mo?r?]
• Rhymes: -or?
• Syllabification: mo?ra

Etymology 1

From Latin mora.

Noun

mora

1. (linguistics) mora

Declension

Etymology 2

Named after Swedish Mora in Sweden.

Noun

mora

1. (colloquial) knife, hunting knife

Declension

Anagrams

• armo

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese morar. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mora.

Verb

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

Italian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *m?ra, from Latin m?rum, from Ancient Greek ????? (móron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.ra/

Noun

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry (fruit); fruit of a plant of the genus Morus

   Synonyms: gelso, mora del gelso

2. (by analogy) blackberry (fruit), and similar fruits such as loganberry; fruit of a plant of the genus Rubus

   Synonym: mora di rovo

3. arrears

Related terms

• moratorio
• moro (“blackberry tree”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mora (archaic)

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of morire

Alternative forms

• muoia (non-archaic)

Anagrams

• amor, armo, armò, orma, ramo, ramò, Roma

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese morar.

Verb

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember, care for”). Some offer as cognates Latin memor, Ancient Greek ??????? (mérm?ra), ??????? (mérimna), ?????? (mártur), ??????? (méllein).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ra/, [?m??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.ra/, [?m????]

Noun

mora f (genitive morae); first declension

1. delay, or any duration of time.

2. (by extension) hindrance

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Asturian: muera

References

• m?ra¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mora in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• mora in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mora in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

• amor, arm?, R?ma

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• moren

Noun

mora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of mor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mora f

1. definite singular of mor

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (may?ra).

Noun

mora m

1. peacock

Declension

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mura/

Noun

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mora (“delay”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m??a/, /?m???/
• Homophone: Mora

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. a delay

   Synonyms: atraso, delonga, demora

2. (law) a delay in the payment of a debt
3. (law) a mulct for not paying a debt in time
4. (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)

Related terms

Verb

mora

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of morar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of morar

Sardinian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *m?ra, from Latin m?rum, from Ancient Greek ????? (móron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mora/

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. mulberry (fruit)
2. blackberry (fruit)

Scots

Etymology

From Latin mora.

Noun

mora (plural morae)

1. (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mor, *mora, from Proto-Indo-European *mor-t- (“death”). Cognate with Lithuanian mãras (“plague, pestilence”), Latin mors (“death”) and Sanskrit ?? (mara, “death, dying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /môra/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra

Noun

m?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. nightmare

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ra/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra

Noun

móra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (phonology, poetics) mora

Declension

Etymology 3

From Italian morra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mô?ra/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra

Noun

m?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. morra (ancient game)

Declension

Noun

mora (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of more:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Noun

mora

1. genitive singular of more

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?a/, [?mo.?a]
• Hyphenation: mo?ra

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin m?rum.

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. a mulberry, a mulberry fruit
   • 2005, J. M. Arribas Castrillo and Emilio Vallina Álvarez, Hematología Clínica: Temas de Patología Médica ' (Clinical Hematology: Topics in Medical Pathology, Universidad de Oviedo, ?ISBN, page 230:

   • 2009, Luis Alberto Moreno (Spanish translator), R. A. Cawson and E. W. Odell (English authors), Cawson Fundamentos de Medicina y Patología Oral, Octavo Edición (Cawson’s Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Eighth Edition), Elsevier España, ?ISBN, page 207:

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin mora (“delay”).

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. default (failure to meet an obligation on time)
2. (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)

Etymology 3

From Latin maura (“female Moor”).

Noun

mora f (plural moras, masculine moro, masculine plural moros)

1. female equivalent of moro

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mora

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of morar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of morar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of morar.

Anagrams

• amor, maro, Omar, ramo, roma, Roma

Further reading

• “mora” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

English

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (mogr?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?????/

Noun

mogra (countable and uncountable, plural mogras)

1. (chiefly South Asia) Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac, syn. Mogorium sambac). [from 17th c.]
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, page 44:

     There were strings of mogra and marigolds hanging from the frame of the bed.

Anagrams

• Magor, Magro, Margo, Morga, agrom, groma, margo, marog