Murray

Etymology

Scottish surname derived from the place name Moray in NE Scotland, probably from old Celtic "sea + settlement".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɹi/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜɹi/ (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
  • Rhymes: -ʌri

Proper noun

Murray

1. A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
2. Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
   1. a city in and the county seat of Calloway County, Kentucky, USA.
3. A Scottish surname​.
   • c. 1597, [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fovrth; […], quarto edition, London: Printed by P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, OCLC 932916628, [Act I]:
     :Scene 1:

     Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith.

4. A male given name, transferred from the surname.
   • 1992 Martha Grimes, The End of the Pier, page 151:

     Murray was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. Murray : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".

Anagrams

• yarrum

Proper noun

Murray m

1. Murray (river)