Mark

See also mark, and märk

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /maːk/, X-SAMPA: /ma:k/
• (UK) IPA: /mɑː(ɹ)k/, X-SAMPA: /mA:(r\)k/
• (US) IPA: /mɑɹk/, X-SAMPA: /mAr\k/
• Homophone: mark
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

Etymology

Latin praenomen Marcus, derived from Mars, the Roman god of war, originally Mavors, from *Māwort-.

Proper noun

Mark

Mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “Mark” on Wikisource. Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

1. A male given name.
   • 1988 Ann Oakley: Men's Room: p.25-26:

     "And your name?" she said, "I suppose it's quite unremarkable?" "Very funny." "Mark. It could stand as a symbol of for a man, for men as a category," she reflected,"but I don't suppose that's why your mother gave it to you?" "My mother's motives always were inpenetrable to me. I was her only child, she wanted a simple life. So she gave me a simple name to go along with it. --- It wasn't a popular name until the nineteenth century. People were put of by King Mark in the Tristram and Iseult."

2. (biblical) Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, first patriarch of Alexandria and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1]: Acts 15: 37-39:

     And Barnabas was determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them in Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder from the other; and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed to Cyprus.

3. (biblical) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.

Derived terms

• Markan

Related terms

• jocular diminutive: Marky
• Latinate form: Marcus
• related male names: Marcel, Martin
• female given name: Marcia

Translations

male given name

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܪܩܘܣ (Marqōs)

  Hebrew: מרקוס (Marqōs)

• Catalan: Marc m
• Czech: Marek (cs) m
• Danish: Marcus (da), Markus (da)
• Dutch: Mark (nl) m
• Estonian: Markus (et)
• Finnish: Markus (fi), Markku (fi)
• French: Marc (fr) m
• Hawaiian: Maleko
• Hungarian: Márk (hu)
• Icelandic: Markús (is) m
• Inuktitut: ᒫᕐᒃ (iu) (Maark)
• Irish: Marcus (ga) m
• Italian: Marco (it) m

• Japanese: マーク (ja) (māku)
• Latin: Marcus (la) m
• Latvian: Marks (lv) m
• Macedonian: Марко (mk) (Márko)
• Manx: Markys (gv) m
• Marathi: मार्क (mr) (mārka) m
• Polish: Marek (pl) m
• Portuguese: Marcos (pt) m
• Russian: Марк (ru) (Mark) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Marc (gd) m
• Slovene: Márko (sl) m
• Spanish: Marcos (es) m
• Swedish: Markus (sv)
• Welsh: Marc (cy) m
• Wolof: Màrk (wo)

the Evangelist

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܪܩܘܣ (Marqōs)

  Hebrew: מרקוס (Marqōs)

• Catalan: Marc (ca)
• Danish: Markus (da)
• Estonian: Markus (et)
• Finnish: Markus (fi)
• German: Markus (de)
• Hawaiian: Mareko
• Japanese: マルコ (ja) (maruko)

• Latvian: Marks (lv) m
• Macedonian: Марко (mk) (Márko)
• Manx: Markys (gv) m
• Norwegian: Markus (no)
• Russian: Марк (ru) (Mark) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Marc (gd) m
• Spanish: Marcos (es)
• Swedish: Markus (sv)
• Welsh: Marc (cy) m
• Wolof: Màrk (wo)

book of the Bible

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܟܪܘܙܘܬܐ ܕܡܪܩܘܣ (Kārōzūtā’ d'Marqōs)

  Hebrew: כרוזותא דמרקוס (Kārōzūtā’ d'Marqōs)

• Catalan: Evangeli segons Sant Marc (ca) m
• Dutch: Evangelie naar Marcus
• Finnish: Markuksen evankeliumi (fi)
• Japanese: マルコによる福音書 (ja) (maruko ni yoro fukuinsho)

• Macedonian: Евангелие според Марко (mk) (Evangélie spóred Márko)
• Maltese: L-Evanġelju ta' San Mark
• Norwegian: Evangeliet etter Markus (no) n
• Russian: Евангелие от Марка (ru) (Jeváng'elije ot Márka) n
• Scottish Gaelic: Marc (gd) m
• Spanish: Evangelio según San Marcos (es)
• Welsh: Marc (cy) m, Yr Efengyl yn ôl Sant Marc (cy) f

See also

• Markisha

Anagrams

• Karm

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Danish

Proper noun

Mark

1. A male given name borrowed from English, or short for Markvard.

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Dutch

Proper noun

Mark ?

1. A male given name, cognate to English Mark.

Anagrams

• kram

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Estonian

Proper noun

Mark

1. A male given name, a short form of Markus.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: [maɐ̯k], [maʁk]

Etymology 1

From Middle High German marc, marke.

Noun

Mark f (genitive Mark, plural Mark)

1. (numismatics) mark
   • 1 Mark = 100 Pfennig(e)

Declension

declension of Mark

	singular			plural
f gender	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mark	die	Mark
genitive	einer	der	Mark	der	Mark
dative	einer	der	Mark	den	Mark
accusative	eine	die	Mark	die	Mark

Derived terms

Courantmark Deutsche Mark Estnische Mark Finnische Mark Goldmark Konvertible Mark Mark Banco

Ostmark Papiermark Polnische Mark Reichsmark Rentenmark Silbermark

Etymology 2

From Old High German marka, from Proto-Germanic *markō.

Noun

Mark f (genitive Mark, plural Marken)

1. A usually fortified area along the border; marches.

Declension

declension of Mark

	singular			plural
f gender	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mark	die	Marken
genitive	einer	der	Mark	der	Marken
dative	einer	der	Mark	den	Marken
accusative	eine	die	Mark	die	Marken

Synonyms

• Grenzmark

Derived terms

• Grenzmark
• Markgraf

Proper noun

Mark ?

1. A male given name, short form of compound names beginning with the Germanic element mark "area along the border", such as Markolf and Markward.

Etymology 3

From Middle High German marc, from Old High German marg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą.

Noun

Mark n (genitive Marks or Markes, no plural)

1. marrow
2. pith

Declension

declension of Mark

n gender	article	noun
nominative	das	Mark
genitive	des	Markes
dative	dem	Mark
accusative	das	Mark

Derived terms

• Knochenmark

Etymology 4

From Latin Marcus.

Proper noun

Mark ?

1. A male given name, a German variant of Markus, or borrowed from English.