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No. Moor comes from Mauri, referring to a person from Mauritania, which was the Roman province that included what is now parts of Morocco and Algeria. The name Morocco comes the name of the city Marrakesh, the Almoravid Imperial Capital, which in Latin was Morroch.
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What is a sentence with the word moor?
Many people considered the moor a bleak and inhospitable place.Boats are allowed to moor at the rear of the seaside restaurant.Shakespeare's character Othello was a Moor who became a general in Venice.(* Capitalized, the Moors were essentially black Islamic people - from Morocco - who occupied parts of Spain for nearly a thousand years.)
What does the word Throckmorton mean?
Throckmorton is a surname of English origin, derived from a place name meaning "village by the twisted or crooked stream." It is also a common name for characters in literature and popular culture.
What is a four letter word for Heath or open land?
Moor
What four letter word means to secure a ship with ropes?
Moor
What is the word 'mulatto' derived from?
The term "mulatto" is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word "mulato," which originally meant a person of mixed European and African ancestry. It was commonly used during the time of European colonization and slave trade in the Americas.
What are two meanings of the word moor?
One meaning of the word "moor" is: "to fix in place, to secure". Another meaning of the word "moor" is: "a broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs".
What is the Homophone for the word more?
moor, i think
Where ships moor in one word?
Quay
What does las moor la coma de las la vida mean?
moor is not a spanish word, and it doesn't make sense, but it means: "the moor the comma of life"
What was a Moor?
A Moor is a derogatory term to refer to a North African. We would use the word Berber or Amazigh to refer to these people today.
What a four letter word for securing a ship with rope?
moor
What is the Greek word for donkey?
Donkey = khah-MOOR (חמור)
