muri

See also: Appendix:Variations of "muri"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

muri

  1. plural of murus

Etymology 2

Noun

muri (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of moori.

Etymology 3

From Japanese 無理.

Noun

muri (uncountable)

  1. (business) A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work processes have not been simplified through standardization.
    Coordinate terms: muda, mura

Anagrams

Anuta

Adjective

muri

  1. back

Catalan

Verb

muri

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

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *muri, from Proto-Oceanic *muri, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)udəhi (compare Indonesian kemudian, Maori muri).

Preposition

muri

  1. after

French

Participle

muri (feminine murie, masculine plural muris, feminine plural muries)

  1. past participle of murir

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese morrer. Cognate with Kabuverdianu móri.

Verb

muri

  1. to die

Ido

Noun

muri

  1. plural of muro

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

muri

  1. a shehnai made up bamboo or woods

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.ri/
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Hyphenation: mù‧ri

Noun

muri m

  1. plural of muro

Verb

muri

  1. inflection of murare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

muri

  1. Rōmaji transcription of むり

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

mūrī

  1. inflection of mūrus:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/vocative plural
  2. dative singular of mūs

References

Maltese

Participle

muri (feminine murija, plural murijin)

  1. past participle of ra
  2. past participle of wera

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *muri (“behind, after, following, last” – compare with Tahitian muri, Tongan mui, Samoan muli),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *muri (compare with Fijian muri “behind”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-udəhi (compare with Malay mudi “behind” and kemudian “later”) affixing *udəhi (“last, late, behind, future” – compare with Javanese udhik “upstream”, Iban udi “following after”, Tagalog hulí “last, late”).[2][3]

Adverb

muri

  1. behind, rear
  2. after

i muri, ki muri, muri

  1. afterwards, later

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 259
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “muri.1a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 421-2

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “muri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 249
  • muri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese morrer and Spanish morir and Kabuverdianu móri.

Verb

muri

  1. to die

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Compare Aromanian mor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [muˈri]
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Verb

a muri (third-person singular present moare, past participle murit, third-person subjunctive moară) 4th conjugation

  1. to die
    Synonyms: deceda, răposa, pieri
    Antonym: trăi
    • 1883, Mihai Eminescu, Odă (în metru antic):
      Nu credeam să-nvăț a muri vrodată; / Pururi tânăr, înfășurat în manta-mi, / Ochii mei nălțam visători la steaua / Singurătății.
      Didn't believe I'd ever learn to die; / Ever young, veiled in my toga, / My dreamy eyes I always raised to the star / Of solitude.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Tat

Etymology

Possibly from Armenian մորի (mori, wild strawberry).

Noun

muri

  1. strawbery

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

muri (plural miri)

  1. tree