maure
French, adjective
maure is spelled M-A-U-R-E (5 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maure is a French adjective meaning “Moorish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Maure is a different word: “Moor (A member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture”.
What does maure mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Moorish
noun
- 1
femininemasculineMoor (A member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture.
noun: 1. Nom vulgaire d'une couleuvre d'Algérie la Natrix maura L..(Donné comme féminin dans certains ouvrages -voir l'exemple ci dessous- Littré et Larousse le donne comme masculin). 2. Variété de lin à longues fibres. 3. Canal étroit reliant les marais salants à l'océan Atlantique. (On trouve aussi la graphie "mort").
noun: 1. Grand insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des noctuidés (Noctuidae), dont le dos des ailes est de couleur variant du gris au noir.
noun: 1. Habitant arabo-berbère de la Mauritanie, du Maghreb. 2. Habitant de l’ancienne Maurétanie, région du nord de l’Afrique. 3. Noir d'origine musulmane.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of maure
- Maures plural
- More alternative
- maures plural
- Mauresse feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (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 French?
maure appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).