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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nd??/

Noun

tundra (countable and uncountable, plural tundras)

1. A flat and treeless Arctic biome.

Translations

Anagrams

• Durant, durant, truand

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tundra]
• Hyphenation: tun?d?ra

Noun

tundra f

1. tundra (flat and treeless arctic biome)

Declension

Further reading

• tundra in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tundra in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Faroese

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Noun

tundra f (genitive singular tundru, uncountable)

1. tundra (flat and treeless arctic biome)

   Synonym: frostmýra

Declension

Finnish

Noun

tundra

1. tundra (flat and treeless arctic biome)

Declension

Galician

Noun

tundra f (plural tundras)

1. tundra

Irish

Etymology

From Russian, from Kildin Sami.

Noun

tundra m (genitive singular tundra, nominative plural tundraí)

1. tundra

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tun.dra/
• Hyphenation: tùn?dra

Noun

tundra f (plural tundre)

1. tundra

Latvian

Noun

tundra f (4th declension)

1. tundra

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Noun

tundra m (definite singular tundraen, indefinite plural tundraer, definite plural tundraene)

1. tundra

References

• “tundra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Noun

tundra m (definite singular tundraen, indefinite plural tundraer or trundraar, definite plural tundraene or tundraane)

1. tundra

References

• “tundra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tun.dra/

Noun

tundra f

1. tundra

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French toundra, from Russian ??????? (túndra).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?.d??/
• Hyphenation: tun?dra

Noun

tundra f (plural tundras)

1. (geography) tundra (flat, treeless region around the Arctic)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Russian ??????? (túndra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?ndra/
• Hyphenation: tun?dra

Noun

t?ndra f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. tundra

Declension

References

• “tundra” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tun?dra

Noun

tundra f (plural tundras)

1. tundra

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??????? (túndra), from Kildin Sami ??????? (t?nntre), the accusative/genitive form of ?????? (t?ntar).

Noun

tundra c

1. a tundra

Declension

Anagrams

• rundat, undrat

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tund?a/

Noun

tundra (definite accusative tundray?, plural tundralar)

1. tundra

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *mus? (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian ??? (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?s/
• (US) enPR: môs, IPA^(key): /m?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: mäs, IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

1. Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).

   Hypernym: bryophyte

2. (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
3. (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.

   Hyponyms: alga, cryptogam, lichen

4. (now chiefly Britain regional) A bog; a fen.

Usage notes

• The plural form mosses is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

moss (third-person singular simple present mosses, present participle mossing, simple past and past participle mossed)

1. (intransitive) To become covered with moss.

2. (transitive) To cover (something) with moss.

Translations

See also

• muscoid

Further reading

• moss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• A New English dictionary on historical principles, Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6

Anagrams

• SMOS, SMOs, soms

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• mossál

Etymology

mos +? -j

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo??]
• Hyphenation: moss
• Rhymes: -o??

Verb

moss

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of mos

Usage notes

Not to be confused with mos (“to wash”).