morra

From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/, /ˈmɒɹə/

morra (uncountable)

2. 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.

• morra (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Armor, Marro, Morar, armor, maror

Borrowed from Italian morra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ra]

morra f (plural morres)

1. morra (game)

• “morra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

morra

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

Of unknown origin; possibly from Arabic [script needed] (mora), [script needed] (muraḥ), or of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *meur (“finger”) (see mér). This game was inherited from the Romans, who called it micātiō, from the phrase micāre digitīs (“to flash one’s fingers”).^[1] Akin to Venetan mòra, Sicilian murra, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔrra
• Hyphenation: mòr‧ra

morra f (plural morre)

1. the game of morra

• morra cinese

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

morra

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

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

Related to morro.

morra f (plural morras)

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

morra

1. used to call a cat

Borrowed from Italian morra.

morra f (plural morras)

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

• “morra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old Norse murra, of imitative origin. See also Middle Low German murren.

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)

   Grr, morrade vargen

   Grr, the wolf growled

• morrhår (“whisker”)

• morr

• brumma (“growl (of a bear)”)
• fräsa (“hiss”)
• growla (“growl (perform death growl vocals)”)
• knota (“grumble”)
• kurra (“growl (of a stomach)”)
• muttra (“mutter”)

• morra in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• morra in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• morra in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)