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moro

Spanish, noun

moro is spelled M-O-R-O (4 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 13,207th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a Moor (member of the Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin who ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula and parts of North Africa between…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of morar. With an accent, moró is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of morar”.

What does moro mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea Moor (member of the Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin who ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula and parts of North Africa between the 8th and 15th centuries)

  2. 2

    Spainderogatorymasculineoffensivea Moroccan

  3. 3

    Spainderogatorymasculineoffensivean Arab

  4. 4

    Spainderogatorymasculineoffensivea Muslim, usually from the Maghreb

  5. 5

    masculineone of the Moro Muslims of the Philippines (especially from the Bangsamoro region of Mindanao)

adjective

  1. 1

    Moorish (of or relating to the Moors)

  2. 2

    SpainderogatoryoffensiveMoroccan

  3. 3

    SpainderogatoryoffensiveArab

  4. 4

    SpainderogatoryoffensiveMuslim, usually referring to the Maghreb region

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of morar

verb

as moró
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of morar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Originario, relativo a, o propio de la antigua Mauritania. 2. Propio de, relativo a o devoto del Islam. 3. Por extensión, originario del norte de África, sea cual sea su religión o etnia. 4. Por extensión, que no es cristiano.

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 moro

  • moros plural
  • mora feminine
  • moras feminine plural

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

English words that translate to moro

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

How common is moro in Spanish?

moro appears 4.4 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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