different between mura vs mora

English

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /?mu.??/

Etymology

From Japanese ? (mura).

Noun

mura (uncountable)

1. Luminance non-uniformity of a display device.

   US Patent 5,917,935, Mura detection apparatus and method, 1996 [1]:

   Major classes of LCFPD defects encountered at the final inspection are often pixel defects or wide-area pixel defects (also known as Mura defects).

   NASA Scientific and Technical Information, 2008 [2]:

   Software Simulates Sight: Flat Panel Mura Detection

2. (business) A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when inventory is required but not immediately available.

Coordinate terms

• (business): muda, muri

Translations

Anagrams

• 'umra, Amur, Maru, Umar, amur, arum, maru

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mu?ra

Preposition

mura

1. like

Finnish

Etymology

From the same root as murea and murtaa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mura

1. gravel
2. sediment

Declension

Anagrams

• Amur, ruma

French

Verb

mura

1. third-person singular past historic of murer

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?a/

Verb

mura

1. to be burned

   Synonym: tlhoshô

Icelandic

Etymology

Cognate with Faroese mura, Norwegian Nynorsk mure, Norwegian Bokmål mure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ra/
• Rhymes: -??ra

Noun

mura f (genitive singular muru, nominative plural murur)

1. cinquefoil, potentilla (plant of the genus Potentilla)

Declension

Derived terms

• blóðmura (“tormentil, Potentilla erecta”)
• gullmura (“alpine cinquefoil, Potentilla crantzii”)
• runnamura (“shrubby cinquefoil, Dasiphora fruticosa”)
• skeljamura (“Eged's silverweed, Argentina egedii”)
• tágamura (“silverweed, Potentilla anserina”)

Irish

Alternative forms

• mara (Cois Fharraige)
• muna

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?????/

Conjunction

mura (triggers eclipsis; takes the dependent form of irregular verbs)

1. if... not, unless

Usage notes

• Not used before the past tense except with some irregular verbs.

Derived terms

• murar (used before the past tense of regular and some irregular verbs)

Particle

mura (copular form used before consonants, form used before vowels murab)

1. if... is not, unless... is (present copular form before a consonant)

Related terms

Further reading

• "mura" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “mura” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mura” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Noun

mura f pl

1. plural of muro (“wall”)
2. (plural only) city walls, battlements

Verb

mura

1. inflection of murare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

mura

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Machame

Noun

mura

1. water

References

• Philippson, Gérard, Gens des bananeraies. Contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimandjaro (1984, 'cahier' 16, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mura f

1. definite singular of mure

Verb

mura

1. past tense of mure
2. supine of mure

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Verb

mura (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mur)

1. alternative form of mure

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura.

Noun

mura f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer or muror, definite plural murene or murone)

1. definite singular of mure
2. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mure

References

• “mura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muro]

Noun

mura f (plural muras)

1. (Guardiol) wall

Old Norse

Noun

mura f (genitive muru)

1. silvergrass, goosegrass

Descendants

References

• mura in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Verb

mura

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of murar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of murar

Romanian

Etymology

From moare (“sauerkraut brine”), probably from Latin muries, muria.

Verb

a mura (third-person singular present mur?, past participle murat) 1st conj.

1. to pickle

Conjugation

Derived terms

• murat
• mur?tur?

Rwa

Noun

mura

1. water

References

• Philippson, Gérard, Gens des bananeraies. Contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimandjaro (1984, 'cahier' 16, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations)

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• mur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu??/

Conjunction

mura

1. not, unless

Usage notes

• This is the negative form of the conjunctions ma (“if”).
• Also used as the negative form of conjunctions nan/nam ("if" in conditional clauses).

Spanish

Verb

mura

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

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• mora (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Dempwolff 1934-1938 posited this (along with the Malay etymon and cognates in Javanese, Malagasy, Ngaju Dayak and Toba Dayak) are inherited from Proto-Austronesian *mudaq ("cheap; easy"), but this would result in the Tagalog being *murà (/?mu?a?/). Blust 2010- posits this (and cognates) are a possibly a borrowing from Malay murah.

Adjective

mura

1. cheap

Derived terms

• magmura (“to become cheap”)

Etymology 2

Noun

mura

1. swear word; slander; vulgarity

Derived terms

• magmura (“to curse; to swear”)
• mamura (“(obsolete) to get affronted; (Batangas) to get scolded”)
• murahin (“to curse; to slander”)

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• marra, murra

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *mara, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *mara (compare Gamilaraay mara).

Noun

mura

1. hand

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