murta

• murtra

Borrowed from Latin myrta, variant form of myrtus. Compare Sicilian murtiḍḍa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmur.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmuɾ.ta]

murta f (plural murtes)

1. myrtle
2. a traditional liqueur of Corsica and Sardinia produced by macerating myrtle berries

• murta de Brabant
• murtera
• murtó

• “murta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Attested since 1409. From Latin myrta (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning bitter.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuɾtɐ]

murta f (plural murtas)

1. myrtle (evergreen shrub of the genus Myrtus)

   Synonym: mirto

• mirto
• murteira

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “murta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “murta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “murta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Latin myrta (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning "bitter".

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -uɾtɐ, (Brazil) -uʁtɐ
• Hyphenation: mur‧ta

murta f (plural murtas)

1. myrtle (evergreen shrub of the genus Myrtus)

• murtal

• mirto

From Latin myrta (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning bitter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾta/ [ˈmuɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uɾta
• Syllabification: mur‧ta

murta f (plural murtas)

1. myrtle

   Synonyms: arrayán, mirto

2. ugniberry

• “murta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Finnic *murtadak.

murta

1. to wrinkle, crease
2. to dislocate

• murduda

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “вывихнуть, измять, мять, прорывать”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *murtadak.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmurtɑː/, [ˈmurtɑ]
• Rhymes: -urtɑː
• Hyphenation: mur‧ta

murta

1. (transitive) to break off (a piece from something)
2. (transitive) to break (into pieces)
3. (transitive) to dislocate, sprain
4. (transitive, usually atelic) to distress, bother, pressure

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “murtaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn