Vocabulary

What does 盛る (もる, moru) mean?

盛る (もる, moru) means to serve, to dish up (food); to pile up.

Quick facts
Readingもる
Romajimoru
Part of speechgodan verb, transitive
Level (estimated, JLPT framework)N2
もる
N2 · estimated, JLPT frameworkCommonmoru

to serve, to dish up (food); to pile up

  1. 1godan verb · transitive to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up
  2. 2godan verb · transitive to pile up; to heap up; to fill up
  3. 3godan verb · transitive to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
  4. 4godan verb · transitive to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
  5. 5godan verb · transitive to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)

Example sentences

  • Serve rice into a bowl.

  • I piled fruit up high on the plate.

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Entries, readings and English glosses: JMdict — Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and their translations written by GoMe.

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