مور

See also: موز

Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *marwíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *marwíš, from Proto-Indo-European *morwi-.

Noun

مور • (mor)

1. ant

See also

• مورینک (morínk)

Gojri

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑁄𑀭 (mora), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayū́ra).

Noun

مور (mor) m

1. peacock, peafowl

Further reading

• Dr Rafique Anjum (2018) Concise Gojri-Kashmiri-English Dictionary, New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 417.
• Javaid Rahi (2015) “مَور”, in گوجری ڈکشنری [Gojri Dictionary] (in Gojri), page 817, column 1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mayūˊra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 566

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Cognate with Azerbaijani mor (“violet”), Turkmen mor (“reddish-brown, rust-colored”), Nogai моры (morı), мору (moru, “brown; maroon”), Karachay-Balkar мор (mor, “brown”), Kyrgyz мор (mor, “a dark brown dye”).

Often considered a borrowing from a violet berry name in an Indo-European language: compare Armenian մոր (mor), dialectal մոռ (moṙ, “blackberry; raspberry; wild strawberry”), Ancient Greek μόρον (móron, “black mulberry; blackberry”), Italian moro (“black mulberry tree”).

Noun

مور • (mor)

1. violet color or dye, violet, purple

Adjective

مور • (mor)

1. violet-colored

Descendants

• Turkish: mor
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مۆر (mor)

  Northern Kurdish: mor

• → Middle Armenian: մօռ (mōṙ, “violet”)
  • Armenian: մոռ (moṙ)

See also

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Further reading

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 330
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “mor”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, pages 296–297
• Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 80–81
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 3440b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2026b
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “mor”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 257b

Pashto

Alternative forms

• مېر (mer)

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *mor < *mā́dr, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *mā́dər, from Proto-Iranian *máHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mor/

Noun

مور • (mor) f

1. mother

Declension

declension of مور

	singular		plural
direct	مور (mor)		ميندې (mainde)
oblique	مور (mor)		ميندو (maindo)
vocative	مورې (more)		ميندو (maindo)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwl /⁠mōr⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *marwíš (“ant”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [moːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [moːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [moːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [moːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mʊːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [muːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɵɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mōr
Dari reading?	mōr
Iranian reading?	mur
Tajik reading?	mür

Noun

Dari	مور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мӯр

مور • (môr)

1. (archaic in Iran) ant

   Synonym: مورچه (môrče)

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑁄𑀭 (mora), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayū́ra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /moːɾ/

Noun

مور • (mor) m (Hindi spelling मोर)

1. peacock

Declension

Declension of مور
	singular	plural
direct	مور (mor)	مور (mor)
oblique	مور (mor)	موروں (morõ)
vocative	مور (mor)	مورو (moro)

Further reading

• “مور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 620