moan
nomverbeadjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//məʊn//
- États-Unis//moʊn//
A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
nom
- 1
A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
let out a deep moan
We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.
- 2
obsolèteA lament or sorrow.
to make one's moan
it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.
to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee[…]
Étymologie
From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
verbe
- 1
To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- 2
To grieve.
- 3
To make a moan or similar sound.
She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
- 4
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
- 5
To complain; to grumble.
- 6
obsolèteTo distress (someone); to sadden.
which infinitely moans me
adjectif
- 1
Of or pertaining to a moa.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English moa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English moan From moa + -an.
Formes
- pluriel
- moans
- comparatif
- more moan
- superlatif
- most moan
- passé
- moaned
- participe passé
- moaned
- participe présent
- moaning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- moans
moan · A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
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