Mourn

Definition: Mourn

Mourn

Verb

1. Fell sadness; "She is mourning her dead child".

2. Observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one.

Date "mourn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Mourn Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Num. 20:29), for Moses (Deut. 34:8), and for Samuel (1 Sam. 25:1); David for Abner (2 Sam. 3:31, 35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2), etc. (2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Ex. 33:4); the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Judg. 20:26), etc. (3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Lev. 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1 Sam. 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zech. 12:10, 11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.). Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Gen. 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2 Sam. 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Gen. 37:29, 34; Matt. 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Gen. 37:34; Ps. 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2 Sam. 13:19; Jer. 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Lev. 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex. 33:4; Deut. 21:12, 13; 2 Sam. 14:2; 19:24; Matt. 6:16, 17), fasting (2 Sam. 1:12), covering the upper lip (Lev. 13:45; Micah 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer. 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence (Judg. 20:26; 2 Sam. 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20). In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Matt. 9:23). The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Gen. 50:3); for Aaron (Num. 20:29) and Moses (Deut. 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Sam. 31:13). In 2 Sam. 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.
Lamentation	Verb: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with; fret; (suffer); wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem; (regret); give sorrow words.
Pain	Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mourn

English words defined with "mourn": Bemourn ♦ Mourned. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mourn": Disaster ♦ Pall. (references)

Etymologies containing "mourn": Luctual, lugubrious ♦ Planxty. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I don't mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) Do not mourn me when I am gone! (101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure; writing credit: Jim Kammerud) Men want to be heroes, and their widows mourn. (The Train; writing credit: Rose Vall; Franklin Coen)
Lyrics	A time to dance, a time to mourn ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)
Movie/TV Titles	Dare I Mourn Dare I Weep (1966)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Time to Mourn a Time to Comfort (The Art of Jewish Living Series) (reference) Happy Are Those Who Mourn (reference) Mourn Not Your Dead (reference) Praying Through Grief: Healing Prayer Services for Those Who Mourn (reference) Refusal to Mourn (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Don't Mourn - Organize!: Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill (reference) Mourn You Till I Join You [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Disney characters mourn their creator--this Miami News cartoon by artist Don Wright, shows Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, surrounded by other characters, mourning the death of Walt Disney, their creator who died Thursday. Credit: Library of Congress.		Don't mourn : organize! : remember the Augusta six. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Mourning; mourn; bereavement; bereave; bereaving; mourned; death; funeral; sad; blue; down.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Anna Letitia Barbauld	When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza	Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
Gaius Valerius Catullus	Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet.
General George S. Patton	It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Josh Billings	Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
Lord Byron	Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Oscar Wilde	For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
William Shakespeare	To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the best way to bring a fresh mischief on.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Mourn for us rapidly, and replace us speedily.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	No more than with my soul I mourn for yours.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	China	University students and other citizens camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to mourn Hu's death and to protest against those who would slow reform. (references)
Minorities	Pakistan	Several incidents of sectarian violence between rival Sunni and Shi'a groups typically occur during Muharram, the time when Shi'a Muslims mourn the deaths of the Prophet Mohammed's nephew, Ali and Ali's son Hussain. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Mourn" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.60% of the time. "Mourn" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	68.6%	83	36,350
Lexical Verb (base form)	29.75%	36	57,479
Noun (singular)	1.65%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	121	N/A

Expressions using "mourn": mourn for ♦ mourn for smb. ♦ mourn for the loss of ♦ mourn lament ♦ mourn over. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "mourn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		bejammer (be sorry about, begrudge, regret). (various references)

Albanian		mbaj zi, vajtoj (bemoan, bewail, deplore, howl, lament, wail), rri në trishtim, qaj (bawl, bewail, cry, deplore, lament, rain, weep, whimper), pikëllohem (be afflicted, lament). (various references)

Arabic		‏هدل الحمام, ‏ندب (bewail, cicatrize, delegation, lament, mourn lament, scar, wail, weep), ‏حد (border, borderline, boundary, brim, confine, definition, delimit, edge, end, extreme, frontier, limit, margin, outline, restrict, tauten, terminus, utmost degree, verge), ‏تفجع (lamentation, plaint, sigh), ‏أبن (eulogize, son), ‏رثى (commiserate). (various references)

Bulgarian		скърбя (grieve, pine, regret, sorrow), тъгувам (be melancholic, lament, sorrow, yearn), в траур съм, оплаквам (bemoan, bewail, lament, rinse, swill, wail, weep), жалея (grieve, lament). (various references)

Chinese		悲悼 (grieve over somebody's death), 悼 (lament), 啼 (hoof, to cry), �"�悼 (lament, lamented, lamenting, Mourned, Mourning). (various references)

Czech		oplakávat (bemoan, bewail, come to grief), naříkat (complain, deplore, groan, wail, whimper). (various references)

Danish		beklage (be sorry about, regret). (various references)

Dutch		rouwen. (various references)

Esperanto		priplori, funebri. (various references)

Faeroese		syrgja. (various references)

Farsi		ماتم گرفتن (Wail), گریه کردن (Cry, Give, Sob, Weep), سوگواری کردن (Lament). (various references)

Finnish		surra (be grieved, grieve, regret). (various references)

French		se lamenter, regretter, porter le deuil, pleurer, lamenter (moan), faire funérailles. (various references)

German		trauern (grieve, mourning), betrauern (bemoan, bewail, to mourn (for). (various references)

Greek		πενθώ (grieve), θρηνώ (bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, lament, moan, rue, sorrow, wail, weep). (various references)

Hebrew		לת� ות (narrate, recount, tell), לקו� ן (bemoan, dirge, lament, moan, wail), לאבול (lament, languish, perish, wither), לא� ות (bewail, lament), ל�"תאבל (grieve, lament, sorrow, wail, wear the willow), ל�"א� ח (groan, heave a sigh, lament, moan, sigh), ל�"ספי�" (bewail, eulogize, lament, wail), לבכות (bewail, blubber, cry, deplore, howl, lament, snivel, weep), לספו�" (lament). (various references)

Hungarian		sirat (lament, to lament, to mourn, to weep, wept), gyászol (bemoan, bewail, to bemoan, to mourn), búslakodik (to mope, to mourn the loss of a friend). (various references)

Indonesian		berkabung. (various references)

Italian		portare il lutto, piangere (bawl, cry, grieve for, sob, weep), lamentarsi (bellyache, bemoan, bewail, complain, grieve, groan, grumble, howl, lament, moan, protest, squawk, wail, whine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		悲しむ (to be sad, to mourn for, to regret), �"う (to condole, to hold a memorial service for, to mourn for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くやむ (to mourn, to regret, to repent), し�'いたむ (to mourn over the death of), かなしむ (to be sad, to mourn for, to regret), いたむ (to be damaged, to be injured, to feel a pain, to go bad, to grieve over, to hurt, to lament, to mourn), とぶらう (to condole, to hold a memorial service for, to mourn for), とむらう (to condole, to hold a memorial service for, to mourn for). (various references)

Korean		슬퍼하십시�". (various references)

Manx		keayney (cry, crying, deplore, greet, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, mourning, wail, wailing, weep, weeping, weeping; keen-minded), farrarey (to keep vigil), dobberan (bewail, deplore, lament, lamentation, sob story). (various references)

Pig Latin		ournmay

Polish		opłakać. (various references)

Portuguese		prantear (lament, wail, weep), lamentar (bemoan, bewail, beweep, commiserate, deplore, grouse, keen, lament, moan, pity, plain, regret, rue, weep), estardeluto, deplorar (deplore, lament, regret, rue), chorar (bemoan, bewail, burst into tears, cry, ding, grizzle, mewl, mule, pule, scandalize, wail, weep), carpir (groan, keen, moan). (various references)

Romanian		plânge (complain, cry, grieve, hanker, lament, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, pipe, wail, weep), jeli (bemoan, bewail, groan, lament, mourn for, wail). (various references)

Russian		оплакивать (bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, weep). (various references)

Scottish		tuir (lament, relate), caoidh (bewail, lamentation, lamenting, weeping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tugovati (grieve, moan), oplakivati (bemoan, bewail, moan, mourn over), oplakati (lament), žaliti (bewail, deplore, kick, lament, regret, rue, spare). (various references)

Spanish		deplorar (be sorry about, begrudge, deplore, regret). (various references)

Swedish		sörja (bewail, dirt, grieve, lament, mud, mush, slime, sludge, sorrow), begråta (bemoan, bewail, deplore, keen, lament, weep for). (various references)

Turkish		matem tutmak (sorrow), yas tutmak (lament, sorrow, wail), ağlamak (bewail, cry, give a cry, pipe one's eye, pule, shed tears, snivel, turn on the waterworks, wail, weep, whimper, yammer). (various references)

Turkmen		zarynlamak, gam cekmek. (various references)

Ukrainian		оплакувати (bemoan, bewail, condole, cry over, deplore, moan, sigh, weep), носити траур. (various references)

Welsh		galaru (grieve, lament), dolurio (grieve, hurt, wound). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lugeant, lugeat, lugeatis, lugebant, lugebas, lugebat, lugebit, lugebitis, lugebunt, lugens, lugent, lugente, lugentem, lugentes, lugenti, lugentibus, lugentium, lugere, lugeret, luges, lugete, lugetis, lugo, luxerunt, luxit, luxitque, maereat, maerebam, maerebunt, maerens, maerentem, maerentes, maerentibus, maerere, planctu, planctum, planctus, plangam, plangant, plange, plangebant, plangendi, plangendum, plangensque, plangent, plangentes, plangentur, plangerent, plangeret, plangeretis, planges, planget, plangetis, plangite, plango, plango planxi planctum, plango, planxi, planctum, planxerunt, planxi, planxissent, planxit, planxitque. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	gnornian, murnan. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	kronen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai metamelhqhsh ep' escatwn hnika an katatribwsin sarkeV swmatoV sou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et gemas in novissimis quando consumpseris carnes et corpus tuum et dicas
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whan thou hast wastid thi flesh, and thi bodi; and sey,
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 11
Cebuano	Ug ikaw mag-agulo sa imong kaulahian, Sa diha nga mangaut-ut ang imong unod ug ang imong lawas,
Croatian	da ne ridaš na koncu kad ti nestane tijela i puti
Danish	så du gribes af Anger til sidst, når dit Kød og Huld svinder hen,
Dutch	En gij in uw laatste brult, als uw vlees, en uw lijf verteerd is;
Finnish	ja ettet lopulta päätyisi huokailemaan ruumiisi ja lihasi riutuessa
French	De peur que tu ne gémisses, près de ta fin, Quand ta chair et ton corps se consumeront,
German	und müssest hernach seufzen, wenn du Leib und Gut verzehrt hast,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Akhirnya engkau akan mengeluh, apabila badanmu habis dimakan penyakit.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Kemudian pada akhirnya engkau kelak meraung-raung, apabila haus-hauslah sudah kulitmu dan dagingmupun.
Italian	e tu non gema sulla tua sorte, quando verranno meno il tuo corpo e la tua carne,
Maori	A ka tangi koe i tou whakamutunga, ina poto ou kikokiko me tou tinana.
Norwegian	så du må stønne i din siste stund, når din kropp og ditt kjøtt tæres bort,
Portuguese	e gemas no teu fim, quando se consumirem a tua carne e o teu corpo,
Rumanian	ca nu cumva sq gemi, la urmq, cknd carnea wi trupul yi se vor istovi,
Spanish	Entonces gemirás al final de tu vida, cuando tu cuerpo y tu carne se hayan consumido.
Swedish	så att du själv på sistone måste sucka, när ditt hull och ditt kött är förtärt.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mourn": mourned, mourner, mourners, mournful, mournfuller, mournfullest, mournfully, mournfulness, mournfulnesses, mourning, mourningly, mournings, mourns. (additional references)
	Words containing "mourn": unmourned. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mourn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Courn, fourn, journ, lourn, maur, mauron, mern, meuron, modrn, Modugna, Modugno, mogur, mogurnda, Moiun, mooran, Mooun, moren, mormn, morny, moru, Morum, morun, Moruna, mouen, Moun, mouni, mour, moura, mouri, Mourin, mouron, Moyun, muer, Mujuru, murn, muron, noren, Nourry, omur, Omura, Youern, yourn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mourn" (pronounced mô"rn)
3	-ô" r n	adorn, born, borne, Bourn, Bourne, corn, forlorn, forsworn, horn, lowborn, porn, reborn, scorn, shorn, stillborn, sworn, thorn, torn, unborn, warn, wellborn, worn.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "m-n-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: morn, muon, norm.
	-2 letters: mon, mor, mun, nom, nor, our, rom, rum, run, urn.
	-3 letters: mo, mu, no, nu, om, on, or, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "m-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: mourns, unmoor.
	+2 letters: enamour, gunroom, monuron, mounter, mourned, mourner, neuroma, nostrum, organum, remount, romaunt, sunroom, uniform, unmoors, unmoral.
	+3 letters: columnar, consumer, corundum, coumarin, crumhorn, cuniform, enamours, enormous, gourmand, gunrooms, humoring, krumhorn, lungworm, monaural, monsieur, monurons, moribund, mounters, mourners, mournful, mourning, mucrones, neuromas, nontrump, nostrums, numerous, organums, origanum, pronotum, remounts, resummon, romaunts, routeman, routemen, rumoring, summoner, sunrooms, surmount, unciform, unformed, uniforms, unmoored.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 75 72 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-- --- ..- .-. -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0075 0072 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
mourn	13
child islam mourn	5
hadith islam mourn	4
2 long lyrics mourn pac they will	3
long lyrics mourn they will	3
long mourn they will	3
i join mourn till	3
long mourn they video will	3
by child death fire in london mourn refusal	2
mourn sermon time	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mourn

Definition: Mourn

Mourn

Verb

Specialty Definition: Mourn

Synonyms within Context: Mourn

Dejection

Lamentation

Pain

Crosswords: Mourn

Modern Usage: Mourn

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Commercial Usage: Mourn

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Image Slideshow: Mourn

Photos:Mourn

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Sounds Captioned with "Mourn".

Familiar Quotations: Mourn

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

Gaius Valerius Catullus

General George S. Patton

Josh Billings

Lord Byron

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Mourn

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Non-Fiction Usage: Mourn

Usage Frequency: Mourn

Expressions: Mourn

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mourn

Modern Translation: Mourn

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mourn

Bible Trace: Mourn

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Mourn