murt

• mort

Along with the variant mort, from Middle Irish martad, a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).

murt m (genitive singular muirt, plural muirt)

1. murder

murt (past mhurt, future murtaidh, verbal noun murt or murtadh, past participle murte)

1. murder, massacre

• fèin-mhurt
• fèin-mhurtair
• murtair

murt!

1. jeez! hell! Jesus Christ!

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “murt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

From Ottoman Turkish مورد (murd), itself from Persian مورد (murd, “myrtle”).

murt (definite accusative murdu, plural murtlar)

1. myrtle (Myrtus communis)

   Synonym: mersin

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murt1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3312