moe

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

• moé

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.eɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.eɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊeɪ

moe (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.
   • 2015 December 9, Jankenpopp, “Top 15 kawaii and moe anime girls”, in My Anime List‎^[2]:

     Someone who is pretty or beautiful isn't moe by definition. Moe characters don't always have to be younger girls, but it certainly helps! In fact, moe characters don't even have to be female! As long as they make you feel like you want to hug and protect them, that's enough!

   • 2023 September 5, Trent Murray, “10 Best Anime Like Bocchi The Rock”, in Dual Shockers‎^[3], Carole and Tuesday:

     Despite its moe roots and preference for hijinks, Bocchi The Rock is a loving celebration of rock music and the joys of being in a band.

• 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 characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media)

• kawaii
• aegyo

Variant forms.

• IPA^(key): /məʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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”).

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

From Arabic مُوَيْئة (muwayʔa), a diminutive of ماء (māʔ).

moe f (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, page 436

• IPA^(key): /mu/

• Audio:

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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.

Declension of moe
uninflected	moe
inflected	moeë
comparative	moeër
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		moe	moeër	het moest het moeste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	moeë	moeëre	moeste
	n. sing.	moe	moeër	moeste
	plural	moeë	moeëre	moeste
definite		moeë	moeëre	moeste
partitive		moes	moeërs	—

Declension of moe
uninflected	moe
inflected	moeie
comparative	moeier
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		moe	moeier	het moest het moeste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	moeie	moeiere	moeste
	n. sing.	moe	moeier	moeste
	plural	moeie	moeiere	moeste
definite		moeie	moeiere	moeste
partitive		moes	moeiers	—

• 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

   Synonyms: moeder, mam

More common in Belgium as moeke.

moe

1. genitive singular of mood

moe

1. inflection of moer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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. to incubate eggs (of birds)

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 oblique singular, 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