moor

• vt. 係住；使停泊
• n. 沼澤；荒野

北非某民族名。來自拉丁語Maurus,來自希臘語Mauros,摩爾人，可能來自mauros,黑人。

來自古英語mor,沼澤，來自Proto-Germanic*mora,沼澤，來自PIE*mori,湖，海，詞源同marine,marsh.

moor

moor: Counting the capitalized form, English has three separate words moor. The oldest, ‘open land’ [OE], comes from a prehistoric Germanic *mōraz or *mōram, whose other modern descendants, such as German moor, mean ‘swamp’, suggest the possibility of some connection with English mere ‘lake’ (see MARINE). Moor ‘tie up a boat’ [15] was probably borrowed from a Middle Low German mōren, a relative of Dutch meren ‘moor’.

And Moor ‘inhabitant of North Africa’ [14] comes ultimately from Greek Mauros, a word no doubt of North African origin from which the name of the modern state Mauritania is derived. English relatives include morello [17], the name of a dark-skinned cherry which comes via Italian from Latin morellus or maurellus, a derivative of Maurus ‘Moor’; and morris dance.
=> marine, mere; morello, morris dance

moor (v.)

"to fasten (a vessel) by a cable," late 15c., probably related to Old English mærels "mooring rope," via unrecorded *mærian "to moor," or possibly borrowed from Middle Low German moren or Middle Dutch maren "to moor," from West Germanic *mairojan. Related: Moored, mooring. French amarrer is from Dutch.

moor (n.)

"waste ground," Old English mor "morass, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *mora- (cognates: Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch meer "swamp," Old High German muor "swamp," also "sea," German Moor "moor," Old Norse mörr "moorland," marr "sea"), perhaps related to mere (n.), or from root *mer- "to die," hence "dead land."

The basic sense in place names is 'marsh', a kind of low-lying wetland possibly regarded as less fertile than mersc 'marsh.' The development of the senses 'dry heathland, barren upland' is not fully accounted for but may be due to the idea of infertility. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]

Moor (n.)

"North African, Berber," late 14c., from Old French More, from Medieval Latin Morus, from Latin Maurus "inhabitant of Mauritania" (northwest Africa, a region now corresponding to northern Algeria and Morocco), from Greek Mauros, perhaps a native name, or else cognate with mauros "black" (but this adjective only appears in late Greek and may as well be from the people's name as the reverse). Being a dark people in relation to Europeans, their name in the Middle Ages was a synonym for "Negro;" later (16c.-17c.) used indiscriminately of Muslims (Persians, Arabs, etc.) but especially those in India.

1. Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.

埃克斯穆爾高地國家公園位於高原貧瘠之地，占地265平方英裏。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Moor the boat over there.

把船灣在那邊.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. For example, Professor Moor notes the continued difficulty to train computers to use and translate language.

例如, Moor教授注意到訓練電腦使用和翻譯語言的那種持續性的困難.

來自互聯網

4. I decided to moor near some tourist boats.

我決定在一些觀光船附近停泊。

來自辭典例句

5. The open countryside was pleasant, the green moor sparkling in the sunshine.

廣闊的村野,令人心曠神怡; 綠色的沼澤,在陽光下閃閃發光.

來自辭典例句