morna
/məʊˈɹnɑ/noun
morna is a noun meaning “A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-R-N-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of morna is mornas.
What does morna mean?
noun
- 1
A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
- 2
A piece of music in this style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce morna?
- /məʊˈɹnɑ/
Morna has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of morna
- mornas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is morna?
Morna appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Morna in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a genre of Cape Verdean music:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | morna |
| German | Morna |
| Portuguese | morna |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does morna come from?
Borrowed from Portuguese morna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).