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Moors
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moors
English
Etymology 1
From en nl Moors Moorish, or directly from en Moor s (after e.g. en Scots).
Proper noun
en British India obsolete Hindustani; Urdu. 18th–19th c.
1808–10, William Hickey (memoirist) William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:
[I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.
References
Etymology 2
Noun
en noun form
en Moor
Etymology 3
Proper noun
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en.
en Irish.
en given names English.
Anagrams
en moors Moros rooms smoor
Dutch
Pronunciation
nl /moːrs/
nl Nl-Moors.ogg
Proper noun
nl proper noun
nl
German
Pronunciation
de De-Moors.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
de noun form
de Moor gen s