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Borrowed from Sotho morena, Northern Sotho morena, Tswana morena, from mo- (personal class prefix) + rena (“to be rich, to be a leader”).
morena (plural morenas or marena)
- (South Africa) Someone in authority, a master or leader, especially among Sotho-speakers. (Chiefly as a form of address.) [from 19th c.]
1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 93:
‘Morena,’ said the old priest, ‘don't be angry with the boy.’
- (moraine): morrena
morena f (plural morenes)
- a moray eel, especially the Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena)
- (Valencia) mushroom of the genus Agaricus
Inherited from Vulgar Latin morena, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs). Doublet of hemorroide, a learned borrowing.
morena f (plural morenes)
- haemorrhoid
- Synonym: hemorroide
morena f (plural morenes)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
morena
- “morena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “morena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “morena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Borrowed from Spanish morena, feminine singular form of moreno.
- Hyphenation: mo‧re‧na
morena
morena
morena f (plural morene)
- ^ morena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Borrowed from French moraine, from Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre, from Vulgar Latin *murrum.
morena f
morena f (plural morenas)
From moreno.
morena f (plural morenas)
morena
moréna f (Cyrillic spelling море́на)
morena (Cyrillic spelling морена)
morena class 1/6 (plural marena)
- → Phuthi: murena
See moreno. Ultimately related to English Moor.
morena f (plural morenas)
- female equivalent of moreno
morena
from Latin muraena (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμυραινα (smuraina), from σμυρος (smuros, “sea eel”).
morena f (plural morenas)
- “morena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /moˈɾena/ [moˈɾɛː.n̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: mo‧re‧na
morena (masculine moreno, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜒᜈ)
- dark-skinned (of a woman)
morena (masculine moreno, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜒᜈ)
- dark-skinned woman
- female Filipino beauty standard, typically described as a beautiful young woman with physical traits native or indigenous to the Philippines
- “morena” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “morena”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
morêna class 1 (plural barena)