Maure
German, noun
Maure is spelled M-A-U-R-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 182,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maure is a German masculine noun meaning “Moor (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, maure is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Angehöriger der in Nordafrika als Nomaden lebenden Berberstämme, die im 7. Jahrhundert von den Arabern…”.
What does Maure mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineMoor (male or of unspecified gender)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Angehöriger der in Nordafrika als Nomaden lebenden Berberstämme, die im 7. Jahrhundert von den Arabern islamisiert wurden und diese bei ihrer Eroberung der iberischen Halbinsel als kämpfende Truppe unterstützten 2. arabisch-berberische Mischbevölkerung im heutigen Nordwestafrika
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Maure
- Mauren genitive
- Maurin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Maure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Maure in German?
Maure appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).