mar

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English[edit]

WOTD – 8 April 2016

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: mar
  • Audio (UK)
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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

  1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
    • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Prospero: […] huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, OCLC 767532218:
      Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.
    • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 218:
      Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.
    • 1826, Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes. Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings, volume IV, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, New York, N.Y.: Published by N. Bangs and J. Emory, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 13, Crosby-Street, Jeremiah 18:3–4, page 53:
      […] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
    • 1856, Jabez Burns, “The Heralds of Mercy”, in Cyclopedia of Sermons: Containing Sketches of Sermons on the Parables and Miracles of Christ, on Christian Missions, on Scripture Characters and Incidents; on Subjects Appropriate for the Sick Room, Family Reading and Village Worship and some Special Occasions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, OCLC 692530910, page 253:
      Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.
    • 2000, Vanessa Gunther, “The Indian Giver”, in Gordon Morris Bakken, editor, Law in the Western United States (Legal History of North America; 6), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 271:
      The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.
    • 2007, Zeno W. Wicks, Jr.; Frank N. Jones; S. Peter Pappas; Douglas A. Wicks, Organic Coatings: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, →ISBN, pages 85 and 210:
      [page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.
    • 2018 July 10, “Cave rescue: Final push under way in Thailand”, in bbc.com‎[1], BBC, retrieved 2018-07-10:
      They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more. If confirmed, one child and an adult remain to be rescued, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver's death.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar (plural mars)

  1. A blemish.
    • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 68:
      For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See mere.

Noun[edit]

mar (plural mars)

  1. A small lake.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mar

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar

Conjunction[edit]

mar

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

mar m (plural mars)

  1. sea

References[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mar m or f (plural mares)

  1. sea (body of water)

Bourguignon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mar f (plural mars)

  1. sea

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m or f (plural mars)

  1. sea

Derived terms[edit]

Chavacano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish mar (“sea”).

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. sea

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mar m (plural mares)

  1. sea
  2. (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity

Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. sea

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”). [1][2]

Verb[edit]

mar

  2. (transitive) to bite (of animals)
    Synonyms: harap, tép
  3. (transitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)
    Synonym: roncsol
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of mar
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica-
tive
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. marok marsz mar marunk martok marnak
Def. marom marod marja marjuk marjátok marják
2nd-p. o. marlak ―
Past Indef. martam martál mart martunk martatok martak
Def. martam martad marta martuk martátok marták
2nd-p. o. martalak ―
Condi-
tional
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. marnék marnál marna marnánk marnátok marnának
Def. marnám marnád marná marnánk marnátok marnák
2nd-p. o. marnálak ―
Sub-
junc-
tive
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. marjak marj or
marjál 		marjon marjunk marjatok marjanak
Def. marjam mard or
marjad 		marja marjuk marjátok marják
2nd-p. o. marjalak ―
Infinitive marni marnom marnod marnia marnunk marnotok marniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
marás maró mart marandó marva marhat
Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar (uncountable)

  2. withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative mar —
accusative mart —
dative marnak —
instrumental marral —
causal-final marért —
translative marrá —
terminative marig —
essive-formal marként —
essive-modal — —
inessive marban —
superessive maron —
adessive marnál —
illative marba —
sublative marra —
allative marhoz —
elative marból —
delative marról —
ablative martól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		maré —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		maréi —
Possessive forms of mar
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. marom —
2nd person sing. marod —
3rd person sing. marja —
1st person plural marunk —
2nd person plural marotok —
3rd person plural marjuk —
Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entry #566 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
  • (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *marhaz.

Noun[edit]

mar m (genitive singular mars, nominative plural marar or marir)

  1. (poetic) horse
Declension[edit]
declension of mar
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mar marinn marar mararnir
accusative mar marinn mara marana
dative mari / mar marinum / marnum mörum mörunum
genitive mars marsins mara maranna

or

declension of mar
m-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mar marinn marir marirnir
accusative mar marinn mari marina
dative mari / mar marinum / marnum mörum mörunum
genitive mars marsins mara maranna

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.

Noun[edit]

mar m (genitive singular marar)

  1. (poetic) the sea
Declension[edit]
declension of mar
m-s3 singular
indefinite definite
nominative mar marinn
accusative mar marinn
dative mari / mar marinum / marnum
genitive marar mararins

Etymology 3[edit]

First attested at the end of the 18th century. Related to merja (“to crush, bruise”).

Noun[edit]

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

  1. bruise, contusion
Declension[edit]
declension of mar
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative mar marið
accusative mar marið
dative mari marinu
genitive mars marsins

References[edit]

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar (plural mares)

  1. sea

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish immar.

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

mar

  1. because
  2. as

Derived terms[edit]

Preposition[edit]

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

  1. like
  2. as

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. (form of mare used in poetry and in names of some seas) sea

Derived terms[edit]

Kabuverdianu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese mar.

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. sea
  2. ocean

References[edit]

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Kurdish[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. snake
  2. marriage

Maltese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Root
m-w-r

From Arabic مَرَّ‎ (marra, “to pass”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mar (imperfect jmur)

  1. to go

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of mar
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m mort mort mar morna mortu marru
f marret
imperfect m mmur tmur jmur mmorru tmorru jmorru
f tmur
imperative mur morru
  • Note: Predominantly conjugated like a hollow root, but the original gemination surfaces prevocalically, i.e. in the plural imperfect as well as the third-person feminine and plural of the perfect.

Marshallese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. a bush
  2. a shrub
  3. a boondock
  4. a thicket

References[edit]

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • mare (continental Normandy, Guernsey)
  • mathe (Jersey)

Etymology[edit]

From Old French mare.

Noun[edit]

mar f (plural mars)

  1. (Sark) pool

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mar f (plural mars)

  1. sea (large body of water)

Old French[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

  1. Alternative form of mare

Adverb[edit]

mar

  1. Alternative form of mare

Old Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. sea

Descendants[edit]

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  • Galician: mar
  • Portuguese: mar
    • Kabuverdianu: mar
    • Kabuverdianu: már

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar f

  1. genitive plural of mara

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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mar

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m (plural mares)

  1. sea
  2. (figuratively) a multitude; a great amount or number of things
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mar (comparative mais mar superlative o mais mar)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese.

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun[edit]

mar f (plural mars)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea

Noun[edit]

mar m (plural mars)

  1. (Vallader) sea

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Preposition[edit]

mar

  1. as
  2. like

Usage notes[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *marъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)

  1. (rare) diligence
  2. (rare) eagerness, zeal

Declension[edit]

Declension of mar
singular plural
nominative mar marovi
genitive mara marova
dative maru marovima
accusative mar marove
vocative mare marovi
locative maru marovima
instrumental marom marovima

See also[edit]

Somali[edit]

Verb[edit]

mar

  1. to pass, to proceed

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m or f (plural mares)

  1. sea
    • 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎[2] (CD), Brittany: Keltia Musique, performed by Cécile Corbel:
      En la mar hay una torre
      En la torre una ventana
      En la ventana hay una hija
      Que a los marineros ama.
      In the middle of the sea there's a tower
      In the tower there's window
      At the window there's a maiden
      Who loves the sailors.
  2. seaside
  3. (selenology) lunar mare
  4. (la mar) loads
  5. (la mar de) really; hella

Usage notes[edit]

Mar is usually treated as a masculine noun in formal prose and as a feminine noun by sailors or in poetry.

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Hyponyms[edit]

See Category:es:Seas

Descendants[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. March; Abbreviation of mars.

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar

  1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

Synonyms[edit]

  • mari (eastern dialect)

Venetian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Italian mare.

Noun[edit]

mar m (plural mari)

  1. sea

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb[edit]

mar

  1. only, solely
Further reading[edit]
  • “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Conjunction[edit]

mar

  1. but
Further reading[edit]
  • “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun[edit]

mar c (plural marren)

  1. but
Further reading[edit]
  • “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun[edit]

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)

  1. lake
Further reading[edit]
  • “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zazaki[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɑɾ]
  • Hyphenation: mar

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian مار‎ (mār)

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. (zoology) snake

mar f

  1. (family) mother (specification)
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