German

Noun

Mure f ‎(genitive Mure, plural Muren)

1. mudflow
   • 1991, Der Spiegel, issue 47/1991, page 340:

     Bei Inzell wälzte sich im August eine Mure aus 70 000 Kubikmetern Schlamm und Geröll ins Tal.

     Near Inzell, a mudflow of 70,000 cubic meters mud and debris avalanched into the valley in August.

Declension

Synonyms

• Murgang
• Rüfe (Switzerland)

Derived terms

• Murenabgang
• murig
• vermuren

External links

• Murgang on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Mure in Duden online

English

Noun

mure ‎(plural mures)

1. (obsolete) wall

   No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.

   Th' incessant care and labour of his mind

   Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in

   — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870

2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

References

• Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

Adjective

mure ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

Verb

mure ‎(third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
2. (obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

   The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).

Anagrams

• Meru

Danish

Noun

mure c

1. plural indefinite of mur

Verb

mure ‎(imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)

1. to build
2. to do bricklaying

Derived terms

• murer
• muret
• mure inde

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mureh.

Noun

mure ‎(genitive mure, partitive muret)

1. sorrow, woe, grief
2. care, concern
3. anxiety, distress

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

French

Verb

mure

1. first-person singular present indicative of murer
2. third-person singular present indicative of murer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of murer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of murer
5. second-person singular imperative of murer

Anagrams

• muer

Latin

Noun

mūre

1. vocative singular of mūrus

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

Etymology

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Noun

mûre or mü̂re f

1. wall

Declension

Usage notes

The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.

Novial

Noun

mure ‎(plural mures)

1. wall

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɾɨ/
• Hyphenation: mu‧re

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, accusative singular of mus, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

Alternative forms

• muro

Noun

mure m (plural mures)

1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse

Synonyms

• rato

Derived terms

• murar

Related terms

• morcego
• murganho
• músculo

Verb

mure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of murar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of murar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of murar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of murar

Spanish

Verb

mure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of murar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of murar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of murar.