moer

Afrikaans moer

moer (third-person singular simple present moers, present participle moering, simple past and past participle moered)

1. (South Africa, transitive) To beat; to thrash.

• -more, Mero, More, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, more, omer

• IPA^(key): [muːr]

From Dutch moer.

moer (plural moere)

1. nut: female screw, which fits on a bolt

   Ek draai die moer vas

2. seed tuber

From Dutch moer.

moer (uncountable)

1. dregs, lees, sediment (of liquid)

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

moer (present moer, present participle moerende, past participle gemoer)

1. to hit someone very hard

   Ek gaan jou hard moer. ― I'm gonna beat the shit out of you.

• → English: moer

• IPA^(key): /mur/, [muːr]
• Hyphenation: moer
• Rhymes: -ur

Contraction of moeder (“mother”) by syncope of medial /d/.

moer f (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. (rare, archaic) mother
2. sediment formed in various alcoholic drinks and vinegar; compare French: mère de vinaigre
3. a queen bee
4. a female hare
5. a female rabbit
6. a female ferret
7. the main in a structure; general version.

• (mother): moeder, ma, mama
• (queen bee): bijenkoningin
• (female hare): moershaas
• (female rabbit): moerkonijn

• hellemoer
• moerbeest
• moerkonijn
• moerriool
• moershaas
• moerstaal

• → Papiamentu: moer (dated)

A shortening of moerschroef, from moer (“mother”) +‎ schroef (“bolt”).

moer f (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. a type of fastener with a threaded hole; a nut
2. (informal) something small and insignificant (in the phrase geen moer)

   Het kan me geen moer schelen.

   I do not care at all.

• moerbout
• moeren
• moerschroef
• moersleutel

• → Caribbean Javanese: mur
• → Indonesian: mur
• → Papiamentu: mur, moer

From Middle Dutch moer (“morass”), from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz. Related to meer (“lake”). Cognate with English moor, Old English mōr (“moor, marsh”).

moer n (plural moeren, diminutive moertje n)

1. morass, marsh, peat

• moeren

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

moer ?

1. Alternative form of muur chickweed

• van Veen, P.A.F.; van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht; Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN

• more, roem, Rome

moer f (plural moers)

1. morass

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese moer, from Latin molere (“to mill”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /moˈeɾ/

moer (first-person singular present moio, first-person singular preterite moín, past participle moído)

1. (transitive) to mill
2. (transitive) to grind, to crush

• Note: mo- are changed to moi- before back vowels (a, o).

• Note: this verb has, in addition to the regular past participle "moído", the irregular one, mudo.

• amoado (“liquid dough; mixture”)
• moa (“molar; millstone”)
• moenda (“action of milling”)
• muíña (“chaff”)
• muíño (“mill”)
• muiñeira (Galician traditional dance and bagpipe music)
• mudo

• “moer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “moer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “moer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle High German mager, from Old High German magar, from Proto-West Germanic *magr. Cognate with German mager, Dutch mager, Icelandic magur; also related to English meagre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːer/, [ˈmoː.ɐ]

moer (masculine moren or moeren, neuter moert, comparative méi moer, superlative am moersten)

1. lean
2. skinny, meagre

moer

1. indefinite plural of mo m
2. indefinite plural of moe m

moer f

1. obsolete typography of mor
   • 1669, “Højr nu kiær SIRI mi”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 48:

     højr Moer æg nu mæ dæg til Kioppinhaffn vil fara

     listen, Mother: Now I want to go to Copenhagen with you

From Old Portuguese moer, from Latin molere.

• Hyphenation: mo‧er

moer (first-person singular present moo, first-person singular preterite moí, past participle moído)

1. (transitive) to mill
2. (transitive) to grind, crush

   Synonym: esmagar

3. (figuratively, colloquial, takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to tire; exhaust

   Synonyms: cansar, fatigar

• moagem
• moedor

• moenda
• mó
• moinho
• moleiro