morale

morale

See also: morāle and morālē

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/

  • Audio (RP)

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs, morale was at an all time low; the staff were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   A morale-boosting exercise

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times‎:

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• → Welsh: morâl

Translations

the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: رُوح مَعْنَوِيَّة‎ f (rūḥ maʕnawiyya) Armenian: բարոյահոգեբանական վիճակ (hy) (baroyahogebanakan vičak) Belarusian: дух m (dux), мара́льны дух m (marálʹny dux) Bulgarian: дух (bg) m (duh), мора́лно състоя́ние n (morálno sǎstojánie), мора́лен дух m (morálen duh) Chinese: Cantonese: 士氣／士气 (si6 hei3), 士气 (si6 hei3) Mandarin: 士氣／士气 (zh) (shìqì), 信心 (zh) (xìnxīn) Czech: morálka (cs) f Danish: moral (da) c Dutch: moreel (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: moraali (fi) French: moral (fr) m Galician: ánimo (gl), disposición (gl) f, moral (gl) f, azo m, folgo m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Moral (de) f Greek: ηθικό (el) n (ithikó), φρόνημα (el) n (frónima) Hebrew: מוֹרָל‎ (he) m (morál), רוח קרב‎ f (rúakh krav) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: korsa, daya juang (id) Irish: meanma f, misneach (ga) m, sprid (ga) f Italian: morale (it) m Japanese: 士気 (ja) (しき, shiki) Korean: 사기(士氣) (ko) (sagi) Latin: animus (la) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Persian: روحیه‎ (fa) (ruhiyye) Polish: morale (pl) n Portuguese: ânimo (pt), disposição (pt), moral (pt) m Russian: дух (ru) m (dux), боево́й дух m (bojevój dux), настро́й (ru) m (nastrój), мора́льное состоя́ние n (morálʹnoje sostojánije), мора́льный дух m (morálʹnyj dux) Scottish Gaelic: meanmna m, misneachd f, spiorad m, smior m Shan: ႁႅင်းၸႂ် (héng tsǎue) Slovak: morálka f Spanish: entusiasmo (es) m, ánimo (es) m, disposición (es) f Swedish: -moral c, stridsmoral (sv) c, arbetsmoral c Tagalog: katatagang-loob Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: дух m (dux), мора́льний дух m (morálʹnyj dux) Vietnamese: tinh thần (vi) Welsh: morâl m

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

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Esperanto

Etymology

From moralo +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moˈrale]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le

Adverb

morale

1. morally

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

• Audio

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Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

• “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧rà‧le

Adjective

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

Noun

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

Anagrams

• Merola, malore, molare, molera, molerà

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Latin

Adjective

mōrāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧le

Noun

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

Noun

morale

1. locative singular of morał
2. vocative singular of morał

Further reading

• morale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN