• (British) IPA: /ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/

moorish

1. (now rare) Boggy, marshy; like a moor.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , I.iii.3:

     glow-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […], with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […].

• moory, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

• (British) IPA: /ˈmʊə.ɹɪʃ/, /ˈmɔː.ɹɪʃ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈmʊɹ.ɪʃ/, /ˈmɔɹ.ɪʃ/

moorish

1. Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture.
   • 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:

     I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you; — but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?

2. (architecture) Of or pertaining to a style of Spanish architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration.

• French: mauresque
• German: maurisch
• Italian: moresco
• Portuguese: mouro, mourisco
• Russian: маврита́нский
• Spanish: morisco

• German: maurisch
• Russian: маврита́нский