morna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese morna.

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) enPR: mŏrnâ, IPA^(key): /məʊˈɹnɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ

Noun

morna (countable and uncountable, plural mornas)

1. (uncountable, music) A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
   • 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in edited by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:

     She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.

2. (countable) A piece of music in this style.

Translations

a genre of Cape Verdean music

• Alemannic German: Morna
• Asturian: morna
• Catalan: morna
• Czech: morna
• Danish: morna
• Dutch: morna
• Esperanto: morna (eo)
• Finnish: morna
• French: morna (fr)
• German: Morna
• Greek: μόρνα (mórna)
• Hungarian: morna (hu)
• Ido: morna
• Italian: morna
• Luxembourgish: Morna
• Malay: morna
• Norwegian: morna
• Polish: morna (pl)
• Portuguese: morna (pt)
• Russian: мо́рна f (mórna)
• Slovene: morna
• Swedish: morna (sv)

Further reading

• morna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Norma, Roman, manor, moran, norma, roman

Galician

Adjective

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• morgna — verb

Verb

morna

1. (impersonal) to dawn (become morning)

   Synonym: daga

Conjugation

Conjugation of morna — impersonal, active (weak class 2)

infinitive	morna
past participle	mornaðr
indicative	present	past
3rd-person singular	mornar	mornaði
subjunctive	present	past
3rd-person singular	morni	mornaði

Derived terms

• mornan f (“dawn”)

Related terms

• morginn m (“morning”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: morgna

Noun

morna

1. accusative plural of morginn
2. genitive plural of morginn

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *murnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think; remember”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan) and English mourn.

Verb

morna

1. (intransitive) to waste away
2. (transitive) to cause to pine

Conjugation

Conjugation of morna — active (weak class 2)

infinitive	morna
present participle	mornandi
past participle	mornaðr
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	morna	mornaða
2nd-person singular	mornar	mornaðir
3rd-person singular	mornar	mornaði
1st-person plural	mornum	mornuðum
2nd-person plural	mornið	mornuðuð
3rd-person plural	morna	mornuðu
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	morna	mornaða
2nd-person singular	mornir	mornaðir
3rd-person singular	morni	mornaði
1st-person plural	mornim	mornaðim
2nd-person plural	mornið	mornaðið
3rd-person plural	morni	mornaði
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	morna
1st-person plural	mornum
2nd-person plural	mornið

Conjugation of morna — mediopassive (weak class 2)

infinitive	mornask
present participle	mornandisk
past participle	mornazk
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	mornumk	mornuðumk
2nd-person singular	mornask	mornaðisk
3rd-person singular	mornask	mornaðisk
1st-person plural	mornumsk	mornuðumsk
2nd-person plural	mornizk	mornuðuzk
3rd-person plural	mornask	mornuðusk
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	mornumk	mornuðumk
2nd-person singular	mornisk	mornaðisk
3rd-person singular	mornisk	mornaðisk
1st-person plural	mornimsk	mornaðimsk
2nd-person plural	mornizk	mornaðizk
3rd-person plural	mornisk	mornaðisk
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	mornask
1st-person plural	mornumsk
2nd-person plural	mornizk

Related terms

• morn f (“pining away”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: morna

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Portuguese

Etymology

From morno.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/ [ˈmɔɦ.nɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/ [ˈmɔɦ.nɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʁ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɻ.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾ.nɐ/

Noun

morna f (plural mornas)

1. (music) morna

Adjective

morna

1. feminine singular of morno

Further reading

• “morna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “morna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• morna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt