mar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mar"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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, dristurb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), German dialectal 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”).

Verb

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

1. To spoil, to damage.
   • Dryden

     But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.

   • Milton

     Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

Translations

to spoil, to damage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 損壞, 损坏 (zh) (sǔnhuài), 損傷 (zh), 损伤 (zh) (sǔnshāng)

• Dutch: verpesten (nl), verknoeien, beschadigen (nl)
• Finnish: pilata (fi), tärvellä, turmella (fi)
• French: entacher (fr) (figuratively)
• German: verderben (de)
• Japanese: 台無しにする (だいなしにする, dainashi ni suru), 傷める (いためる, itameru)

• Romanian: strica (ro)
• Russian: портить (ru) impf (pórtitʹ), испортить (ru) pf (ispórtitʹ), повреждать (ru) impf (povreždátʹ), повредить (ru) pf (povredítʹ)
• Slovene: kazíti
• Spanish: dañar (es), perjudicar (es)
• Swedish: fördärva (sv), svärta ner

Etymology 2

See mere.

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• arm, Arm, ARM
• MRA
• ram, Ram, RAM
• RMA

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Afrikaans

Adverb

mar

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar.

Conjunction

mar

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar.

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Asturian

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Noun

mar m, f (plural mares)

1. sea (body of water)

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Catalonia) IPA^(key): /mar/, /maɾ/
• Rhymes: -ar
• (Balearic Islands) IPA^(key): /ma/
• Homophones: ma, mà
• Hyphenation: mar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Noun

mar m, f (plural mars)

1. sea

Derived terms

• marejar
• marejol
• marí
• mariner
• marítim

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Galician

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *murɜ (“piece, crumb; to cut in pieces, break up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒr/ (It is important to pronounce it with a short a, otherwise it will sound like már (“already”).)

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Verb

mar

1. to bite

Derived terms

• marakodik
• marás
• mardos
• maró

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Icelandic

Noun

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

1. bruise, contusion

Declension

declension of mar

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mar	marið
accusative	mar	marið
dative	mari	marinu
genitive	mars	marsins

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish immar.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [ˈmˠɑɾˠ]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈmˠaɾˠ]

Conjunction

mar

1. because
2. as

Derived terms

• cad é mar

Preposition

mar (triggers lenition of a following consonant)

1. like

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Italian

Noun

mar m

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

Derived terms

Mar Adriatico Mar Arabico Mar Baltico Mar Bianco Mar Caspio Mar Celtico Mar Cinese occidentale Mar Cinese orientale Mar d'Azov Mar dei Caraibi Mar dei Chukchi Mar dei Coralli Mar dei Sargassi Mar del Giappone Mar del Nord Mar della Siberia Orientale Mar delle Filippine Mar delle Molucche Mar delle Salomone

Mar di Andamane Mar di Arafura Mar di Banda Mar di Barents Mar di Beaufort Mar di Bering Mar di Celebes Mar di Ceram Mar di Flores Mar di Galilea Mar di Giava Mar di Groenlandia Mar di Kara Mar di Laptev Mar di Marmara Mar di Mindanao Mar di Norvegia Mar di Ohotsk Mar di Ross

Mar di Sardegna Mar di Sibuyan Mar di Sicilia Mar di Sulu Mar di Tasmania Mar di Timor Mar di Weddell Mar d'Irlanda Mar Egeo Mar Giallo Mar Glaciale Artico Mar Ionio Mar Ligure Mar Mediterraneo Mar Morto Mar Nero Mar Rosso Mar Tirreno

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Kurdish

Noun

mar m

1. snake
2. marriage

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Lojban

Rafsi

mar

1. rafsi of manri.

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مَرٌَ (márra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːr/

Verb

mar (imperfect imur)

1. go

Conjugation

conjugation of mar

	singular					plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person m	3rd person f		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
	jien(a)	int(i)	hu(wa)	hi(ja)		aħna	intom	huma
perfect	murt	murt	mar	marret		morna	mortu	marru
imperfect	immur	tmur	imur	tmur	immorru	tmorru	imorru
imperative		mur				morru

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Occitan

Etymology

Latin mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea (large body of water)

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Old French

Adjective

mar

1. Alternative form of mare.

Adverb

mar

1. Alternative form of mare.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

Noun

mar m

1. sea
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)

     Mia irmana fremoſa treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.

     Lovely sister, come willingly / To the church in Vigo, where the sea is up, / And we will gaze at the waves.

Descendants

• Galician: mar
• Portuguese: mar

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Portuguese

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mar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maɾ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /maɹ/, /maɾ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /maɻ/, /maɾ/
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /maɻ/
  • Homophones: mau, mal
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /maχ/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /mah/

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. (figuratively) a multitude; a great amount or number of things

Related terms

• maré
• mareiro
• marina
• marinha

Derived terms

• gaivotas em terra, tempestade no mar - Seagulls inland, storm at sea.
• mar de rosas

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) mer

Etymology

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

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

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

Noun

mar m (plural mars)

1. (Vallader) sea

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• man

Preposition

mar

1. as
2. like

Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

Derived terms

• mar eisimpleir
• mar seo
• mar sin

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *marъ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâːr/

Noun

mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)

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

Declension

    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

• marljivost
• marljiv

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m, f (plural mares)

1. sea
2. seaside

Related terms

• marea
• marear
• maremoto
• mareo
• marisco

• marina
• marino
• marisma
• marítimo

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Swedish

Abbreviation

mar

1. March; Abbreviation of mars.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

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Torres Strait Creole

Noun

mar

1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

Synonyms

• mari (eastern dialect)

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian mare

Noun

mar m (plural mari)

1. sea

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare English mere, Dutch meer, Low German Meer, meer, German Meer.

Noun

mar c

1. lake

Adverb

mar

1. only, solely

Conjunction

mar

1. but

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Zazaki

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar

1. (zoology) snake