Mauer

• Maur (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊ̯ər/, [ˈmaʊ̯.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯ɐ

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From Middle High German mūre, from Old High German mūra, from Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Cognate with Yiddish מויער (moyer).

Mauer f (genitive Mauer, plural Mauern, diminutive Mäuerchen n or Mäuerlein n)

1. a wall, usually one made of stone or concrete
2. (figurative, sports) several players forming a blockade against the ball

• See Wand for notes on the distinction between Mauer and this sometimes interchangeable word.

• Wand

die Mauer f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Mauer)

1. the Berlin Wall

   Die Mauer muss weg!

   The Wall must fall!

Mauer n (proper noun, genitive Mauers or (optionally with an article) Mauer)

1. a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• “Mauer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mauer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Mauer” in Duden online
• Mauer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Inherited from Central Franconian Mouer, from Middle High German mūre, from Old High German mūra, from Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, borrowed from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- + *-rós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊ̯a/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯a
• Syllabification: Mau‧er

Mauer f (plural Maure, diminutive Mauerche)

1. wall

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Mauer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 107, column 2

Inherited from Central Franconian Mouer.

• IPA^(key): /mɑʊ̯ʀ/, /ˈmɑʊ̯.eʀ/, [ˈmɑʊ̯.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊɐ

Mauer f (plural Mauren)

1. wall