moan
noun
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L17904 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to utter a moan or complain
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /məʊn/ / /moʊn/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English moa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English moan From moa + -an.
- Of or pertaining to a moa.
noun
Etymology: 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.
- A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
“let out a deep moan”
“We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.”
- A 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.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
- To grieve.
- 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.”
- To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
“‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.”
- To complain; to grumble.
- To distress (someone); to sadden.
“which infinitely moans me”