different between mura vs murk

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *mork? (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), Ancient Greek ??????? (amorbós, “dark”).

Alternative forms

• mirk (archaic)
• mark (dialectal)

Adjective

murk (comparative murker, superlative murkest)

1. Dark, murky
   • J. R. Drake

     He cannot see through the mantle murk.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mirk.

Derived terms

• murken

Etymology 2

From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkw?, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

Noun

murk (uncountable)

1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

   Synonym: gloom

Derived terms

• murky

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijan?, *mirkwajan? (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

Verb

murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)

1. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
   • 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [1]

     Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...

Translations

Etymology 4

Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary.

Alternative forms

• merk

Verb

murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
   • 1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High

     cause we be murkin from the boogie

     And shittin on the crowds

     'cause they jive fakin woody.

   • 2010, Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)

     That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.

   • 2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)

     He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

Anagrams

• Krum