morna

Borrowed from Portuguese morna.

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) enPR: mŏrnâ, IPA^(key): /məʊˈɹnɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ

morna (countable and uncountable, plural mornas)

1. (uncountable, music) A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
   • 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), editors, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:

     She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.

2. (countable) A piece of music in this style.

• morna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Norma, Roman, manor, moran, norma, roman

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

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• morgna — verb

morna

1. (impersonal) to dawn (become morning)

   Synonym: daga

• mornan f (“dawn”)

• morginn m (“morning”)

• Icelandic: morgna

morna

1. accusative plural of morginn
2. genitive plural of morginn

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *murnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think; remember”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan) and English mourn.

morna

1. (intransitive) to waste away
2. (transitive) to cause to pine

• morn f (“pining away”)

• Icelandic: morna

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From morno.

morna f (plural mornas)

1. (music) morna

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

• “morna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “morna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• morna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt