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

Declension of murre (ÕS type 6/mõte, rd-rr gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		murre	murded
accusative	nom.
	gen.	murde
genitive			murrete
partitive		murret	murdeid
illative		murdesse	murretesse murdeisse
inessive		murdes	murretes murdeis
elative		murdest	murretest murdeist
allative		murdele	murretele murdeile
adessive		murdel	murretel murdeil
ablative		murdelt	murretelt murdeilt
translative		murdeks	murreteks murdeiks
terminative		murdeni	murreteni
essive		murdena	murretena
abessive		murdeta	murreteta
comitative		murdega	murretega

• 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
• 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 2023-07-01

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurːe/, [ˈmurːe̞]
• Rhymes: -urːe
• 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

murre c

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

• kissemurre
• sotarmurre

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