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mora

Spanish, noun

mora is spelled M-O-R-A (4 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,270th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mora is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a mulberry, a mulberry fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of moro. With an accent, morá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of morar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tardanza en cumplir obligaciones y compromisos legales, como una deuda”.

What does mora mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininea mulberry, a mulberry fruit

  2. 2

    femininea blackberry

  3. 3

    femininea berry

noun

  1. 1

    femininedefault (failure to meet an obligation on time)

  2. 2

    femininemora (unit of syllable weight)

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of moro

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as morá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of morar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Tardanza en cumplir obligaciones y compromisos legales, como una deuda. 2. Medida de cantidad que corresponde a una sílaba breve.

noun: 1. Fruto de la morera (Morus alba). 2. Fruto del moral (Morus nigra). 3. Fruto de la zarza (Rubus fruticosus). Es una polidrupa de color morado oscuro cuando está madura. 4. Fresa silvestre (Fragaria vesca).

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of mora

  • moras plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to mora

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is mora in Spanish?

mora appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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