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noun, feminine

myrrhe

/miʁ/

noun, feminine/miʁ/plural: myrrhes

myrrh (dried sap of the myrrha tree)

From Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning bitter, akin to Arabic مُرّ (murr, “bitter”), Hebrew מֹר (mor, “bitterness, acrimony”).