myrrh

English

Myrrh.

Etymology

From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from Semitic. Compare Arabic مُرّ‎ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew מור / מֹר‎ (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”). Compare מרור‎ : maror.

Pronunciation

enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /mɜɹ/
- (UK) IPA^(key): [mɜː(ɹ)]
- (US) IPA^(key): [mɝ]
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Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Homophones: murr, murre

Noun

myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)

A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)
  The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
(Scotland) The herb chervil.

Derived terms

myrrhic
myrrhine
myrrhlike

Translations

dried sap of the myrrha tree

Aghwan: 𐕌𐕒𐕡𐕙 (mur)
Arabic: مُرّ‎ (ar) (murr)
Armenian: զմուռս (hy) (zmuṙs)
Azerbaijani: mürr
Bengali: গন্ধরস (gôndhôrôsô)
Bulgarian: смирна f (smirna)
Burmese: မုရန် (mu.ran)
Catalan: mirra (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 沒藥, 没药 (mut⁶ joek⁶)
Hakka: 沒藥, 没药 (mu̍t-yo̍k)
Mandarin: 沒藥／没药 (zh) (mòyào)
Min Nan: 沒藥, 没药 (bu̍t-io̍h)
Czech: myrha (cs) f
Danish: myrra
Dutch: mirre (nl) m
Egyptian:

(ꜥntjw)
Esperanto: mirho
Estonian: mürr
Faroese: myrra f
Finnish: myrha (fi)
French: myrrhe (fr) f
Galician: mirra f
Georgian: მური (muri)
German: Myrrhe (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌼𐍅𐍂𐌽 n (smwrn)
Greek: σμύρνα (el) f (smýrna)
Ancient: σμύρνα f (smúrna)
Hausa: mûr̃ m
Hebrew: מור‎ (he), לֹט‎ (he) m
Hindi: बोल (hi) m (bol), गन्धरस (hi) m (gandharas), शश (hi) m (śaś), विश्व (hi) m (viśva), मुण्ड (hi) m (muṇḍ)
Hungarian: mirha (hu)
Icelandic: myrra f
Ido: miro (io)
Irish: miorr m
Italian: mirra (it) f
Japanese: ミルラ (mirura), 没薬 (motsuyaku)
Korean: 몰약 (ko) (moryak)
Lao: ມົດຍອບ (mot nyǭp)
Latin: murra (la), myrrha
Macedonian: измирна f (izmirna)
Malay: morhabshi
Maori: maira
Norman: myrrhe f
Norwegian: myrra
Old English: myrra
Old Norse: mirra f
Polish: mirra (pl) f, mira (pl) f
Portuguese: mirra (pt) f
Romanian: smirnă (ro) f
Russian: ми́рра (ru) f (mírra)
Sanskrit: पिण्ड (sa) m or n (piṇḍa), मुण्ड (sa) n (muṇḍa), शश (sa) m (śaśa), विश्व (sa) f (viśva), गन्धरस (sa) m (gandharasa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ми̏рха f, измирна f
Roman: mȉrha (sh) f, izmirna (sh) f
Shan: မုရၼ်ႇ (mǔ ràn)
Slovak: myrha f
Spanish: mirra (es) f
Swahili: manemane
Swedish: myrra (sv) c
Tagalog: mira
Thai: มดยอบ (th) (mót-yɔ̂ɔp)
Turkish: mür (tr)
Upper Sorbian: myrowc
Vietnamese: hất nhựa thơm