moe

From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”).

Wikipe-tan, a moe personification of Wikipedia

• moé

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ.eɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /moʊ.eɪ/
• Rhymes: -əʊeɪ, -oʊeɪ

moe (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.

• figure moe zoku
• moe anthropomorphism

• moekko
• moe sangyo
• moetan

moe (comparative more moe or moe-er, superlative most moe or moe-est)

1. (fandom slang) Cute, adorable. (of fictional chracters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media)

• Moe (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Variant forms.

• IPA^(key): /məʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

moe

1. Obsolete form of mo.
2. Obsolete form of more.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.

   • c. 1572, George Gascoigne, Woodmanship

     The crafty courtiers with their guileful looks,
     Must needs put some experience in my maw:
     Yet cannot these with many mast'ries moe
     Make me shoot straight at any gainful prick […]

moe

1. Obsolete form of mow (“wry face, grimace”).
2. Obsolete form of moa.

moe

1. Obsolete form of moo.
2. Obsolete form of mow (“to make faces”).

• 'ome, -ome, EOM, Emo, Meo, OEM, OME, emo

From Arabic ماء‎ (māʔ).

moe (plural moyát)

1. water

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill

• IPA^(key): /mu/

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• Hyphenation: moe
• Rhymes: -u

From moede with loss of -d-, from Middle Dutch moede (“tired, loath”), from Old Dutch muothi (“tired”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōþī, from Proto-Germanic *mōþaz. Cognate to German müde and Old English mēþe.

moe (comparative moeër or moeier, superlative moest)

1. tired, weary
   • 1968, Willem Johan van der Molen & Jan Wit, "Evenals een moede hinde" (psalm 42).

     Evenals een moede hinde / naar het klare water smacht, / schreeuwt mijn ziel om God te vinden / die ik ademloos verwacht.

     Just as a tired doe / yearns for clear water, / my soul cries out to find god / whom I breathlessly expect.

   Synonym: vermoeid

This word is usually used predicatively rather than attributively. If an attributive sense is needed, most people use vermoeid. The forms moeie and moeier are often proscribed. The form moede is mostly formal.

• moede

• Afrikaans: moeg
• Jersey Dutch: mûx, mâ
• Negerhollands: moe, mu

Shortening of moeder.

moe f (plural moeken, diminutive moeke n or moetje n)

1. (informal, dialectal) mother

More common in Belgium as moeke.

moe

1. genitive singular of mood

From Proto-Polynesian *mohe (compare Tongan mohe, Maori moe)[1] from Proto-Oceanic (compare Fijian moce).[2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

moe

1. to sleep
2. to lie down
3. to die
4. to ambush
5. to marry
6. (of birds) to incubate eggs

moe

1. bed

   Synonyms: moekū, moena

2. dream
3. marriage
4. calmness

• moemoe

moe

1. Rōmaji transcription of もえ

moe

1. house

• Alexandre François, The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar

From Proto-Polynesian *mohe (compare Tongan mohe, Hawaiian moe) from Proto-Oceanic (compare Fijian moce).[1][2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

moe

1. to sleep, to nap
2. to dream
3. to marry
4. to die
5. to faint

moe

1. sleep
2. dream

   Synonym: moemoea

moe

1. dormant

• moemoe
• moenga

• “moe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Frankish *mauwu (“mouth, protruding lip”).

moe f (oblique plural moes, nominative singular moe, nominative plural moes)

1. mouth

• Middle French: moe, moue
  • French: moue

See here.

moe

1. sleep
2. lie down

moe

1. sleep

• potumoe

Borrowed from Dutch moeten.

moe

1. must
2. have to
3. should

moe

1. sleep

Archaic; use taʻoto.

From Proto-Oceanic *ʀumaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀumaq.

• IPA^(key): /moe/, /mʷoe/

moe

1. house

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry moe.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry moe.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

moe

1. ashamed

moe

1. shame