masculine
peacock
mora , m. (= Pali , Pkt. id. = Skt. mayūra), peacock : (prose) Mv ii.264.17 ; iii.256.1 ; ( vss ) Mv ii.202.15 ; iii.133.16 ; Suv 47.8 ; Laṅk 365.12 ; written maura, Mv ii.266.19 = 402.14 (in the latter v.l. , text mora; vs ); also in morahasta(ka), see mayūra-ha° .
mora m. a peacock (= mayUra ), L.
a peacock
Mora [the contracted, regular Pāli form of Sanskrit mayūra, via *ma-ūra > mora. See also Geiger, Pāli Grammar §27 and Pischel, Pkt Gr. §166. — Vedic only mayūrī feminine peahen] a peacock Ja II 275 (°upasevin, see commentary on this passage); VI 218, 497; Pv-a 142; Dhp-a I 394. A peacock's tail (sometimes used as a fan) is denoted in various terms in compounds, as mora-kalāpa Dhp-a I 387; -piccha Vin I 186; -piñcha Vin II 130; -pīñja Pv-a 142, 176; Vv-a 147; -sikali (?) Pj I 49; -hattha Vv 33 44 (= mayūra-piñjehi kataṃ makāsa-vījaniṃ); Pv III 1 17 . Perhaps also as morakkha "a peacock's eye" at Vibh-a 63 (morakkhaka loha, a kind of copper, grouped with pisācaloha). It is more likely however that morakkha is distorted from *mauryaka, patronymic of mura, a local (tribal) designation (cf. murala), then by popular etymology connected with mora peacock. With this cf. Sanskrit moraka "a kind of steel" BR.
【陽】 孔雀。~piñja,【中】 孔雀的尾部。
(masc, masc, onom, from mayūra) peacock; (comm) any bird peacock Construction: mayūra > mora