adj
Meaning 1
Of a mulberry colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
murrey
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmʌɹi/
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homophone: Moray
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homophone: Murray
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rhymes with -ʌɹi
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CMU ARPABET: M ER1 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
The mulberry fruit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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History
Etymology
From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: черничев (černičev) — having a murrey colour
- German: dunkelrotbraun — having a murrey colour
- Italian: morato — having a murrey colour
- Polish: purpurowoczerwony — having a murrey colour
- Swedish: mullbärsfärgad — having a murrey colour
- Catalan: morat — red colour
- Dutch: murrey — red colour
- Finnish: murrey — red colour
- Polish: kolor purpurowoczerwony — red colour
- Portuguese: morado — red colour
- Spanish: morado — red colour
- Swedish: mullbär — red colour
- Swedish: mullbärsfärg — red colour