murre

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: murr, myrrh

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community‎^[1], page 252:

     It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,

     About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,

     Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

• (any bird of genus Uria): guillemot

• thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia)
• common murre (Uria aalge)

• merganser
• razorbill (relative)

• Rumer

From murdma (“to break”) +‎ -e, most likely influenced by Finnish murre.

murre (genitive murde, partitive murret)

1. dialect

• murrak

• “murre”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

murtaa +‎ -e. First attested in 1820.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurːeˣ/, [ˈmurːe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -urːe
• Syllabification^(key): mur‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): mur‧re

murre

1. dialect

• “murre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurːe/, [ˈmurːe̞]
• Rhymes: -urːe
• Syllabification^(key): mur‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): mur‧re

murre (dialectal)

1. dog, pooch

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murre

1. inflection of murren:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

murre

1. alternative form of mirre

Possibly a hypocoristic formation from morian (“dark-skinned person”).

murre c

1. (colloquial, chiefly in compounds) a chimney sweep

From murra (“to grumble, murmur”)

murre c

1. (colloquial) a cat

• kissemurre
• sotarmurre

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