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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]mar
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: mar
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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”), Sanskrit mṛṣ (“forget, neglect”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)
- (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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:
- 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: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, 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, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, volume IV, 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, 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
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Noun
[edit]mar (plural mars)
- 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. Doublet of mare and mere.
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit]mar (plural mars)
- A small lake.
Etymology 3
[edit]See mayor.
Noun
[edit]mar (plural mars)
References
[edit]- “mar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mar
- (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
Conjunction
[edit]mar
- (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
Ambonese Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]mar
References
[edit]- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[2], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m (plural mars)
References
[edit]- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m or f (plural mares)
- sea (body of water)
Bourguignon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar f (plural mars)
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Catalan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmar]
Audio (Valencia): (file) - Homophones: ma, mà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
- Hyphenation: mar
Noun
[edit]mar m or f (plural mars)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish mar (“sea”).
Noun
[edit]mar
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]mar
- Alternative form of maar.
Further reading
[edit]- “mar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar, from Latin mare. Compare Portuguese mar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m (plural mares)
- sea
- swell
- Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar ― Today we are not going, there is too much swell
- (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Guinea-Bissau Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.
Noun
[edit]mar
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”). [1][2]
Verb
[edit]mar
- (transitive, intransitive) to bite (of animals; used either with -t/-ot/-at/-et/-öt or with -ba/-be)
- (transitive, intransitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)
- Synonym: roncsol
Conjugation
[edit]Click for archaic forms | 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 | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | 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 | ― | |||||||
Future | Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. marni fog. | ||||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | marék | marál | mara | maránk | marátok | marának | ||
Def. | marám | marád | mará | maránk | marátok | marák | |||
2nd-p. o. | marálak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. mar vala, mart vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | marandok | marandasz | marand | marandunk | marandotok | marandanak | ||
Def. | marandom | marandod | marandja | marandjuk | marandjátok | marandják | |||
2nd-p. o. | marandalak | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | marnék | marnál | marna | marnánk | marnátok | marnának | |
Def. | marnám | marnád | marná | marnánk (or marnók) |
marnátok | marnák | |||
2nd-p. o. | marnálak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. mart volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | marjak | marj or marjál |
marjon | marjunk | marjatok | marjanak | |
Def. | marjam | mard or marjad |
marja | marjuk | marjátok | marják | |||
2nd-p. o. | marjalak | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. mart légyen | ||||||||
Infinitive | marni | marnom | marnod | marnia | marnunk | marnotok | marniuk | ||
Other forms |
Verbal noun | Present part. | Past part. | Future part. | Adverbial participle | Causative | |||
marás | maró | mart | marandó | marva (marván) | |||||
The archaic passive conjugation had the same -(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by -ik in the 3rd-person singular (and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional -ik verbs). | |||||||||
Click for archaic forms | 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 | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | marhatok | marhatsz | marhat | marhatunk | marhattok | marhatnak | |
Def. | marhatom | marhatod | marhatja | marhatjuk | marhatjátok | marhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhatlak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | marhattam | marhattál | marhatott | marhattunk | marhattatok | marhattak | ||
Def. | marhattam | marhattad | marhatta | marhattuk | marhattátok | marhatták | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhattalak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Preterit |
Indef. | marhaték | marhatál | marhata | marhatánk | marhatátok | marhatának | ||
Def. | marhatám | marhatád | marhatá | marhatánk | marhatátok | marhaták | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhatálak | ― | |||||||
Archaic Past | Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala, e.g. marhat vala, marhatott vala/volt. | ||||||||
Archaic Future |
Indef. | marhatandok or marandhatok |
marhatandasz or marandhatsz |
marhatand or marandhat |
marhatandunk or marandhatunk |
marhatandotok or marandhattok |
marhatandanak or marandhatnak | ||
Def. | marhatandom or marandhatom |
marhatandod or marandhatod |
marhatandja or marandhatja |
marhatandjuk or marandhatjuk |
marhatandjátok or marandhatjátok |
marhatandják or marandhatják | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhatandalak or marandhatlak |
― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | marhatnék | marhatnál | marhatna | marhatnánk | marhatnátok | marhatnának | |
Def. | marhatnám | marhatnád | marhatná | marhatnánk (or marhatnók) |
marhatnátok | marhatnák | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhatnálak | ― | |||||||
Past | Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. marhatott volna | ||||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | marhassak | marhass or marhassál |
marhasson | marhassunk | marhassatok | marhassanak | |
Def. | marhassam | marhasd or marhassad |
marhassa | marhassuk | marhassátok | marhassák | |||
2nd-p. o. | marhassalak | ― | |||||||
(Archaic) Past | Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. marhatott légyen | ||||||||
Inf. | (marhatni) | (marhatnom) | (marhatnod) | (marhatnia) | (marhatnunk) | (marhatnotok) | (marhatniuk) | ||
Positive adjective | marható | Neg. adj. | marhatatlan | Adv. part. | (marhatva / marhatván) | ||||
Derived terms
[edit](With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar (uncountable)
- withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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]- ^ Entry #566 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ mar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Iban
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mar
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)
Declension
[edit]or
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.
Noun
[edit]mar m (genitive singular marar)
Declension
[edit]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)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “mar” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar (plural mares)
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]mar
Derived terms
[edit]Preposition
[edit]mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Etymology 2
[edit]Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”), probably contaminated by mar (“as, like”) or with dissimilation in forms like early modern a mbail a bhfuil, cognate with Scottish Gaelic far (“where”), compare Old Irish fail (“where”).
Adverb
[edit]mar
- where (relative, not interrogative, followed by indirect relative)
- Fan mar a bhfuil tú.
- Stay where you are.
Further reading
[edit]- R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m (apocopated)
Derived terms
[edit]- Mar Adriatico
- Mar Arabico
- Mar Baltico
- Mar Bianco
- Mar Caspio (“Caspian Sea”)
- Mar Celtico
- Mar Cinese occidentale
- Mar Cinese orientale
- Mar d'Azov
- Mar d'Irlanda
- 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 Egeo
- Mar Giallo (“Yellow Sea”)
- Mar Glaciale Artico
- Mar Ionio (“Ionian Sea”)
- Mar Ligure
- Mar Mediterraneo (“Mediterranean Sea”)
- Mar Morto (“Dead Sea”)
- Mar Nero
- Mar Rosso (“Red Sea”)
- Mar Tirreno
Kabuverdianu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese mar.
Noun
[edit]mar
References
[edit]- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Lombard
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Italian mare, from Latin.
Noun
[edit]mar
Maltese
[edit]Root |
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m-w-r |
4 terms |
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic مَارَ (māra, “to budge, to move forth, to fluctuate, to undergo commotion”) in form, influenced by Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass”) in meaning.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawra or mawrien)
- to go
- 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
- Niftakar li kont mort mal-folla u ma’ sħabi ta’ l-Azzjoni Kattolika biex nilqgħuh fi dħul iż-Żejtun.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of mar | ||||||||
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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
Marshallese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar
References
[edit]Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French mare.
Noun
[edit]mar f (plural mars)
Northern Kurdish
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m
Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]mar f (plural mars)
- sea (large body of water)
Derived terms
[edit]Old French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)
- Alternative form of mare
Adverb
[edit]mar
- Alternative form of mare
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m
- 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.
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar f
Portuguese
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Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Galician mar.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]mar m (plural mares)
- sea
- (planetology) mare
- Synonym: mare
- (figurative) a multitude; a great amount or number of things
- um mar de possibilidades ― a multitude of possibilities
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mar
- 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)
Noun
[edit]mar m (plural mars)
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]mar (+ nominative with the definite article, + dative otherwise, triggers lenition)
Derived terms
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *marъ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]Somali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cushitic *mar-/*mir-/*mur-.
Verb
[edit]mar
References
[edit]- “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m or f same meaning (plural mares)
- sea
- 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2[4] (CD), performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique:
- 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 a window
At the window there's a maiden
Who loves the sailors.
- In the middle of the sea there's a tower
- seaside
- (selenology) lunar mare
- (la mar) loads
- (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.
Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Category:es:Seas.
Derived terms
[edit]- a mares
- agua de mar
- aguamar
- alta mar
- anémona de mar
- araña de mar
- arar en el mar
- arenaria de mar
- arrojarse a la mar
- artillero de mar
- azul de mar
- barbo de mar
- bellota de mar
- brazo de mar
- brezo de mar
- buey de mar
- caballito de mar
- caballo de mar
- cabo de mar
- cangrejo de mar
- carajo de mar
- chocha de mar
- ciencias del mar
- cigarra de mar
- cohombro de mar
- creciente del mar
- dátil de mar
- de mar a mar
- echar agua al mar
- encaje de mar
- erizo de mar
- espuma de mar
- estrella de mar
- galleta de mar
- gallina de mar
- golondrina de mar
- hacerse a la mar
- la mar
- la mar en coche
- libertad de los mares
- lirio de mar
- llover a mares
- mar adentro
- mar de batalla
- mar de fondo
- mar de leche
- mar de leva
- mar de viento
- mar marginal
- mar territorial
- matrícula de mar
- me cago en la mar
- nivel del mar
- nutria de mar
- oreja de mar
- orilla del mar
- ortiga de mar
- oruga de mar
- pato de mar
- pelillos a la mar
- pelillos a la mar
- pepino de mar
- perejil de mar
- piojo de mar
- protesta de mar
- puerco de mar
- pulga de mar
- rábano de mar
- rata de mar
- sudar a mares
- trucha de mar
- ultramar
- uvas de mar
- zorra de mar
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sumerian
[edit]Romanization
[edit]mar
- Romanization of 𒈥 (mar)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar
- March; Abbreviation of mars.
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Germanic mari-. mardröm is unrelated.
Noun
[edit]mar
- (rare) sea (large body of salt water)
- (rare) shallow, muddy bay (of the sea)
- Geddan trifves bland vass i vikar och marar. (Carl Ulrik Cederström, Fiskodling och Sveriges fiskerier, 1857, page 83.)
- (rare) small body of water, marsh
- (rare) meadowland (which used to be seabed)
- (rare) low, sandy beach of the sea, flying sand field
Related terms
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[edit]Tat
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).
Noun
[edit]mar
Torres Strait Creole
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar
- (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)
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
Further reading
[edit]- “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Conjunction
[edit]mar
Further reading
[edit]- “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
[edit]mar c (plural marren)
Further reading
[edit]- “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari.
Noun
[edit]mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)
Further reading
[edit]- “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Wolof
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]mar
Zaghawa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar
References
[edit]- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad
Zazaki
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mar m
mar f
- (family) mother (specification)
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