Meaning of mora | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A delay in bringing a claim.
2. Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
3. The common mora (Mora moro).
4. An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
   historical
5. A female given name.
6. bioresonance therapy
7. A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
8. A city, the county seat of Kanabec County, Minnesota, United States. Named after Mora, Sweden, see also Swedish Mora.
9. A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
10. A census-designated place, the county seat of Mora County, New Mexico, United States.
11. A town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.

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Examples

“In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.”

“Instead of syllables, Japanese is supported by mora. (Tokyo is To-o-kyo-o, a four-mora word.) The word Nihongo consists of four morae, ni-ho-n-go, pronounced with four rhythmical units of sound.”

“At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.”

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