murg

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English

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Noun

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murg (uncountable)

  1. (Indian cookery) Alternative form of murgh
    • 2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness:
      “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.

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Etymology

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From Dutch merg, from Middle Dutch march, from Old Dutch *marg, *merg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos.

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Noun

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murg (uncountable)

  1. marrow

Albanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Late Latin monachus.[1]

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Noun

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murg m (plural murgj)

  1. monk
    • 1555, Gjon Buzuku, Meshari, folio 18v, line 13:
      O iuh ћiξe muneћ / e remitah. lutii ꝑ nee
      [O ju gjithë munëgj e remita, lutī për nē]
      O all you monks and hermits, pray for us.
  2. (derogatory) loner, recluse, hermit

Adjective

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murg (feminine murge)

  1. (colloquial, usually before the noun) wretched, miserable
    Synonyms: i mjerë, i shkretë, i zi
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References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “murg ~ mung”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 278

Further reading

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  • “murg”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Albanian *murga, from *morHgʷo, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)merHgʷ- (compare Old English mierce (darkness), Lithuanian márgas (multicolored), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, dark)).

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murg (feminine murge)

  1. dark, grey
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unknown. Probably from Paleo-Balkan, akin to Albanian murgash. The word seems to also coincide with several similar words in nearby Slavic languages, such as Bulgarian мургав (murgav), but the relation between them is unclear. Other less probable theories have included a Greek root *μουρικος, perhaps through a Latin intermediate *moricus, instead of morulus, or a Greek root ἀμόργη ("remains of olives") through Latin amurca. However, the fact that it is present in the other Eastern Romance languages such as Aromanian murgu and Megleno-Romanian murg, and is paired with an initial a to form the related word amurg, seems to indicate it is probably an older and inherited word of some kind (compare acasă, afund, aminte), rather than a later Slavic borrowing. Nonetheless, the exact source is as yet uncertain.[1]

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murg m or n (feminine singular murgă, masculine plural murgi, feminine and neuter plural murge)

  1. reddish-black
  2. ash-coloured
  3. generally, dark-coloured

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murg n (plural murguri)

  1. (archaic, popular) dusk

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Noun

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murg m (plural murgi)

  1. a dark-coloured horse

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References

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  1. ^ murg in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)