different between muru vs murr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

muru

1. (New Zealand) An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.

Anagrams

• Urum

Darkinjung

Noun

muru

1. pathway

Dharug

Noun

muru

1. path

Estonian

Noun

muru (genitive muru, partitive muru)

1. lawn
2. grass

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From murtaa +? -u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?muru/, [?muru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Syllabification: mu?ru

Noun

muru

1. A crumb
2. A very small amount of something, a jot, an iota.
3. (colloquial) honey (term of affection)

Declension

Synonyms

• (jot) hitunen, hiven, kipene, murunen, rahtu
• (honey) kulta, kulti

Derived terms

• murunen

Related terms

• muren
• murentaa
• murentua
• murtua

Gamilaraay

Noun

muru

1. nose

Karelian

Noun

muru

1. crumb

Michoacán Mazahua

Noun

muru

1. egg

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Metaphony of Old Norse m?ru, oblique singular forms of mara. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mar?, whence also modern English mare (“evil spirit”).

Noun

muru f (definite singular murua or (defunct) muro, indefinite plural murur, definite plural murune)

1. (dialectal or nonstandard since 1917) alternative form of mare (“mare”)

Usage notes

• This form was the standard form allowed under the scarcely used Midlandsnormalen of 1901, alongside maru. It had the inflected forms muro, murur and murune, in the definite singular, indefinite plural and definite plural respectively. These forms faded into oblivion and were definitely defunct by the spelling reform of 1917.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu.ru/

Noun

muru m inan

1. genitive singular of mur

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin m?rus. Compare Italian muro.

Noun

muru

1. wall

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin m?rus. Compare Italian muro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?u/
• Hyphenation: mù?ru

Noun

muru m (plural muri or mura)

1. wall

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

muru

1. crumb
2. bit, small piece

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yagara

Noun

muru

1. Alternative form of muro.

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugarabul Body Parts.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [m??(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [m?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: murre, myrrh

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. Perhaps imitative.

Noun

murr (plural murrs)

1. (obsolete) A catarrh. [from 15th–18th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:

     With them a Phthysique or consumption of the lungs is but an ordinary cough: A dysentery or bloody flux but a distemper of the stomacke; A pleurisie but a cold or murre; and as they gently name them so they easily endure them.

   • 1523, John Skelton, Garlande of Laurell

     The woodhack that singeth 'chur', / Hoarsely, as he had the murr [...]

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

murr (plural murrs)

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial, furry fandom) A purr (produced by any animal).
   • 2003 March 30, "NallTWD" (username), FUR: "Boston Blues" (M/F- Lions), in fur.stories.erotica, Usenet:

     Raion let out a contented murr, […]

   • 2004, "Claudia" (username), STORY: The Three Sisters, part 8 ( Transform, Girl into Horse ), in alt.sex.stories, Usenet:

     Cathy rroww'ed like a cat in heat as her tom mated her, her breasts pressed deeply into the mattress, orgasming with a contented murr as the tom fertilized her […]

   • 2007, Teiran, The Hero, page 150:

     The hyena let out a soft murr as the fox's paw gently rubbing in small circles across his forehead and down his neck. The gentle scratching felt good, so the hyena leaned into the paw.

Verb

murr (third-person singular simple present murrs, present participle murring, simple past and past participle murred)

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial, of a person or animal, especially furry fandom) To purr.
   • 1989, Dawn Borrelli, Kate, page 101:

     The cat murred and purred and tried to lick his face and David was filled with such happiness. All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.

   • 1995 January 5, "Anne-Lise Pasch" (username), STORY: Retribution, in alt.fan.furry, Usenet:

     She murred in satisfaction.

   • 2002, September 2, "sahd_ryoken" (username), *murrs* no shirt, jean shorts, and one hot dragon, in alt.fan.dragons, Usenet

Adjective

murr

1. (slang, of a person or animal, furry fandom) Having sexual appeal, sexy.
   • 2002 November 14, "Khaki Wolf" (username), FUR Genengineering Tank (M/ Direwolf) - garmtank_work.jpg (1/1), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Nice picture. I love the details on everything, and the shading is wonderful. He's very murr.

   • 2002 November 3, "Lukos", in FuRe: Jay (Male/Tame/Fanart), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Yew rox0rs....p.b. and Jay are murr. DO P.B.!

     Lukos

     "Darkan" […] wrote in message […]

     > A little fanart of Jay from Daria McGrain's 'Genus Male' comic. I like P.B.

     > better tho, and will draw him soon.

   • 2003 October 12, "Darkone" (username), Fur: Teeming with Vermin(m/2 pics/not really tame), in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet:

     Great pics, very murr :)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

murr

1. singular imperative of murren
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of murren