mar

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English[edit]

WOTD – 8 April 2016

Pronunciation[edit]

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”).

Verb[edit]

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

  1. To spoil, to damage.
    His performance at the Grammys was marred when a microphone fell on the piano’s strings.
    • 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; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, 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.
Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar (plural mars)

  1. A blemish.
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

Asturian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mar m, f (plural mares)

  1. sea (body of water)

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, 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

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mar

  1. (transitive) to bite

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of mar
Infinitive marni
Past participle mart
Present participle maró
Future participle marandó
Adverbial participle marva
Potential marhat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite marok marsz mar marunk martok marnak
Definite marom
én téged/titeket
marlak		 marod marja marjuk marjátok marják
Past Indefinite martam martál mart martunk martatok martak
Definite martam
én téged/titeket
martalak		 martad marta martuk martátok marták
Conditional mood Present Indefinite marnék marnál marna marnánk marnátok marnának
Definite marnám
én téged/titeket
marnálak		 marnád marná marnánk marnátok marnák
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite marjak marj
or
marjál		 marjon marjunk marjatok marjanak
Definite marjam
én téged/titeket
marjalak		 mard
or
marjad		 marja marjuk marjátok marják
Conjugated infinitive marnom marnod marnia marnunk marnotok marniuk

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entry #566 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

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]

Terms derived from mar

Preposition[edit]

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

  1. like

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “immar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • "mar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m

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

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from mar

Kurdish[edit]

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. snake
  2. marriage

Maltese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mar (imperfect imur)

  1. go

Conjugation[edit]

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 mort mort mar marret morna mortu marru
imperfect immur tmur imur tmur immorru tmorru imorru
imperative mur morru

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: már

Portuguese[edit]

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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]

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

Noun[edit]

mar m, f (plural mares)

  1. sea
    • 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎[1] (CD, in Spanish), 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.

Related terms[edit]

Terms related to mar

Descendants[edit]

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Swedish[edit]

Abbreviation[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]

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[edit]

mar c

  1. lake

Etymology 2[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mar

  1. only, solely

Conjunction[edit]

mar

  1. but

Zazaki[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian مار‎ (mār)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: mar

Noun[edit]

mar m

  1. (zoology) snake
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