different between murre vs purre

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

English

Noun

purre (plural purres)

1. (Britain, dialect) A bird, the dunlin.

Anagrams

• purer

Danish

Verb

purre (imperative pur, infinitive at purre, present tense purrer, past tense purrede, perfect tense purret)

1. to poke, to stir, to rouse

Further reading

• “purre” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “purre” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Finnish

Verb

purre

1. Potential connegative form of purra.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin porrum

Noun

purre m (definite singular purren, indefinite plural purrer, definite plural purrene)

1. Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum, leek

Synonyms

• purreløk

Etymology 2

From Low German purren (“stir”)

Verb

purre (present tense purrer, past tense purra or purret, past participle purra or purret)

1. to stir, to awaken, to alert
2. to strengthen

References

• “purre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²p? r??/

Etymology 1

From Latin porrum

Noun

purre m (definite singular purren, indefinite plural purrar, definite plural purrane)

1. Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum, leek

Synonyms

• purrelauk, purreløk

Etymology 2

From Low German purren (“stir”)

Alternative forms

• purra

Verb

purre (present tense purrar, past tense purra, past participle purra, passive infinitive purrast, present participle purrande, imperative purr)

1. to stir, to awaken, to alert
2. to strengthen

References

• “purre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.