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murva

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English

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Sanskrit मूर्वा (mūrvā).

    Noun

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    murva (uncountable)

    1. Synonym of marool.

    Hungarian

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     murva on Hungarian Wikipedia
     murvalevél on Hungarian Wikipedia

    Etymology

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    First attested in 1332. Borrowed from a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *mьrva.[1] Compare Czech mrva, Serbo-Croatian mȑva, Slovak mrva, Ukrainian ме́рва (mérva).

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ˈmurvɒ]
    • Hyphenation: mur‧va
    • Rhymes: -vɒ

    Noun

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    murva (countable and uncountable, plural murvák)

    1. (botany) bract (leaf or leaf-like structure)
      Synonyms: murvalevél, fellevél, előlevél
    2. (regional) rubble (the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry)
      Synonym: zúzottkő
      Coordinate terms: homok, sóder, kavics
    3. (regional) fragments of broken straw, hay, or dry reeds
      Meronyms: szalma, széna, nád

    Declension

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    Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative murva murvák
    accusative murvát murvákat
    dative murvának murváknak
    instrumental murvával murvákkal
    causal-final murváért murvákért
    translative murvává murvákká
    terminative murváig murvákig
    essive-formal murvaként murvákként
    essive-modal
    inessive murvában murvákban
    superessive murván murvákon
    adessive murvánál murváknál
    illative murvába murvákba
    sublative murvára murvákra
    allative murvához murvákhoz
    elative murvából murvákból
    delative murváról murvákról
    ablative murvától murváktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular
    murváé murváké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural
    murváéi murvákéi
    Possessive forms of murva
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. murvám murváim
    2nd person sing. murvád murváid
    3rd person sing. murvája murvái
    1st person plural murvánk murváink
    2nd person plural murvátok murváitok
    3rd person plural murvájuk murváik

    Derived terms

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    Compound words with this term at the beginning

    References

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    1. ^ murva in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

    Further reading

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    • murva in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
    • murva in Hungarian–English dictionary at SZTAKI

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Etymology

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    Ultimately from Latin mōrus. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /mûːrʋa/
    • Hyphenation: mur‧va

    Noun

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    mȗrva f (Cyrillic spelling му̑рва)

    1. mulberry
      Synonym: dȕd

    Declension

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    Declension of murva
    singular plural
    nominative mȗrva murve
    genitive murve mȕrāvā / mȗrvī
    dative murvi murvama
    accusative murvu murve
    vocative murvo murve
    locative murvi murvama
    instrumental murvom murvama

    References

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    1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “murva”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 644

    Further reading

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    • murva”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

    Slovene

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    Etymology

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    From Latin morus.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    mȗrva f

    1. mulberry

    Declension

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    Feminine, a-stem
    nom. sing. múrva
    gen. sing. múrve
    singular dual plural
    nominative
    (imenovȃlnik)
    múrva múrvi múrve
    genitive
    (rodȋlnik)
    múrve múrv múrv
    dative
    (dajȃlnik)
    múrvi múrvama múrvam
    accusative
    (tožȋlnik)
    múrvo múrvi múrve
    locative
    (mẹ̑stnik)
    múrvi múrvah múrvah
    instrumental
    (orọ̑dnik)
    múrvo múrvama múrvami

    Further reading

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    • murva”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

    Swedish

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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    murva c

    1. (slang, vulgar) a pussy, a snatch (female genitalia)
    2. (slang, vulgar) a bush (woman's pubic hair)

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    Traveller Norwegian

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    Etymology

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    Probably from Finnish.

    Noun

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    murva

    1. berry