muur

See also: müür

Afrikaans

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [myr]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

muur (plural mure)

  1. wall

References

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /myr/, [myːr]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: muur
  • Rhymes: -yr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch muur, mure, from Old Dutch *mūr, *mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Noun

muur m (plural muren, diminutive muurtje n)

  1. wall
    De muur van het huis is pas geschilderd.
    The wall of the house has just been painted.
    Ze hing een schilderij aan de muur.
    She hung a painting on the wall.
    De kinderen tekenden op het muurtje in de tuin.
    The children drew on the small wall in the garden.
  2. wall (figuratively, any barrier which limits access)
    De taal vormt een muur tussen verschillende culturen.
    Language forms a wall between different cultures.
    Zijn onzekerheid vormt een muur rond hem.
    His insecurity forms a wall around him.
  3. a type of fast-food vending machine with compartments arranged similar to a wall that contain snacks (chiefly in the phrase "uit de muur trekken")
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: muur
  • Negerhollands: muur

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *meur-, of unknown origin, possibly a substrate word given the limited geographical distribution.

Noun

muur m (plural muren, diminutive muurtje n)

  1. Any of various small plants of the Caryophyllaceae family, particularly of genus Stellaria (chickweed) but also including others such as Arenaria (sandwort) and Sagina (pearlwort).
Derived terms
  • bosmuur
  • grasmuur
  • grote muur
  • kransmuur
  • kruismuur
  • moerasmuur
  • vetmuur
  • vogelmuur
  • zandmuur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch mūr, mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Noun

muur f or m

  1. wall

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading
  • “muur (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “muur (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Nzadi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

Noun

muur (plural baar)

  1. person

Further reading
  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
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