Mureș

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Mureș

/ˈmureʃ/

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Ultimately from a substrate language via a Slavic language or from Hungarian Maros. The o > u sound change is common in Romanian before liquids in borrowings; compare олѣи (olěi) to ulei.

The river was known as Marisus in Latin during antiquity, and mentioned by Herodotus around 484 B.C. as Maris, possibly of Dacian origin, and in the 10th century as "Morisis". It is known as Maros in Hungarian and Mieresch in German.

proper noun

Mureș (river)
a county of Mureș County, Romania

In English

Mureș river in Romania and Hungary

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@misc{mures_2026,
  title = {Mureș},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/mure%C8%99},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}