Mureș

 Mureș (river) on Wikipedia

 Mureș County on Wikipedia

From Romanian Mureș. Doublet of Maros.

Mureș

1. A river which runs through Romania, starting in the eastern Carpathians and joining the Tisza in Hungary, being about 761 km (473 mi) long.

   Synonym: Maros

2. A county of Transylvania, Romania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș.

• semur, resum, Reums, serum, Remus, merus, muser, Muser, murse, Sumer, Esrum

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:

Mureș

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Uncertain. Either from a substratum language or from a Slavic language or from Hungarian Maros. The o > u sound change is common in Romanian before liquids in borrowings; compare олѣи (olěi) to ulei.

The river was known as Marisus in Latin during antiquity, and mentioned by Herodotus around 484 B.C. as Maris, possibly of Dacian origin, and in the 10th century as "Morisis". It is known as Maros in Hungarian and Mieresch in German.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmureʃ/

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Mureș

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Mureș County

Wikipedia

1. Mureș (river)
2. A county of Mureș County, Romania

• Târgu Mureș

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