morra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

See also: Morra and morrà

Contents

  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Etymology
    • 1.2 Pronunciation
    • 1.3 Noun
      • 1.3.1 Translations
    • 1.4 Further reading
    • 1.5 Anagrams
  • 2 Catalan
    • 2.1 Etymology
    • 2.2 Pronunciation
    • 2.3 Noun
    • 2.4 Further reading
  • 3 Galician
    • 3.1 Verb
  • 4 Italian
    • 4.1 Etymology
    • 4.2 Pronunciation
    • 4.3 Noun
      • 4.3.1 Descendants
  • 5 Portuguese
    • 5.1 Pronunciation
    • 5.2 Verb
  • 6 Spanish
    • 6.1 Pronunciation
    • 6.2 Etymology 1
      • 6.2.1 Noun
      • 6.2.2 Interjection
    • 6.3 Etymology 2
      • 6.3.1 Noun
    • 6.4 Further reading
  • 7 Swedish
    • 7.1 Verb
      • 7.1.1 Conjugation
      • 7.1.2 Derived terms
    • 7.2 References

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/, /ˈmɒɹə/

Noun[edit]

morra (uncountable)

  1. A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.

Translations[edit]

Translations

Translations to be checked

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia ca

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian morra.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

morraf (plural morres)

  1. morra (game)

Further reading[edit]

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

morra

  1. inflection of morrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian[edit]

morra - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (3)

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia it

Etymology[edit]

Of unknown origin; akin to Venetian mòra, Sicilian murra, etc.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

morraf (plural morre)

  1. the game of morra

Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: morra
  • German: Mora
  • English: morra
  • Polish: mora
  • Spanish: morra

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

morra

  1. inflection of morrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmora/ [ˈmo.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Syllabification: mo‧rra

Etymology 1[edit]

Related to morro.

Noun[edit]

morraf (plural morras)

  1. upper part of the head
  2. (Mexico) chick; gal; missy; kiddo

Interjection[edit]

morra

  1. used to call a cat

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Italian morra.

Noun[edit]

morraf (plural morras)

  1. morra (game)
  2. (in a game of morra) a fist, which has the numeric value of zero

Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Verb[edit]

morra (present morrar, preterite morrade, supine morrat, imperative morra)

  1. to growl, to snarl (of an animal, or more or less figuratively of a human)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of morra (weak)

ActivePassive
Infinitivemorramorras
Supinemorratmorrats
Imperativemorra
Imper. plural1morren
PresentPastPresentPast
Indicativemorrarmorrademorrasmorrades
Ind. plural1morramorrademorrasmorrades
Subjunctive2morremorrademorresmorrades
Participles
Presentparticiplemorrande
Pastparticiple
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

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