mare

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).

Cognates
See also Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), Old English mearh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare (plural mares)

  1. An adult female horse.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  2. (UK, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
    • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:
      The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
Antonyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
  • (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.

Cognates
Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare (plural mares)

  2. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
  3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
    I'm having a complete mare today.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare (plural maria)

  1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
  2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
    Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)
Translations[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

See mayor.

Noun[edit]

mare (plural mares)

  1. Obsolete form of mayor.
  2. Obsolete form of mair.

Anagrams[edit]

Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /maˈre/, [mʌˈɾɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧re

Noun[edit]

maré f (singulative maréyta m or mareytá f)

  1. family, relationship

Declension[edit]

Declension of maré
absolutive maré
predicative maré
subjective maré
genitive maré
Postpositioned forms
l-case marél
k-case marék
t-case marét
h-case maréh

Verb[edit]

maré

  1. (Northern Afar, intransitive) live
  2. (Northern Afar, intransitive) continue

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of mare (type II verb)
1st singular 2nd singular 3rd singular 1st plural 2nd plural 3rd plural
m f
perfective V-affirmative maréh martéh maréh martéh marréh marteeníh mareeníh
N-affirmative maré marté maré marté marré martén marén
negative mámarinniyo mámarinnito mámarinna mámarinna mámarinnino mámarinniton mámarinnon
imperfective V-affirmative maráh martáh maráh martáh marráh martaanáh maraanáh
N-affirmative mará martá mará martá marrá martán marán
negative mámara mámarta mámara mámarta mámarra mámartan mámaran
prospective V-affirmative maréliyoh
maréyyoh		 marélitoh
maréttoh		 maréleh maréleh marélinoh
marénnoh		 marélitoonuh
maréttoonuh		 maréloonuh
N-affirmative maréliyo
maréyyo		 marélito
marétto		 maréle maréle marélino
marénno		 maréliton
marétton		 marélon
conjunctive I V-affirmative máruh mártuh máruh mártuh máruh martóonuh maróonuh
N-affirmative máru mártu máru mártu máru martón marón
negative maré wáyuh maré wáytuh maré wáyuh maré wáytuh maré wáynuh maré waytóonuh maré wóonuh
conjunctive II V-affirmative maránkeh martánkeh maránkeh martánkeh marránkeh martaanánkeh maraanánkeh
N-affirmative maránke martánke maránke martánke marránke martaanánke maraanánke
negative maré wáankeh maré waytánkeh maré wáankeh maré waytánkeh maré waynánkeh maré waytaanánkeh maré wáankeh
jussive affirmative máray mártay máray mártay máray martóonay maróonay
negative maré wáay maré wáytay maré wáay maré wáytay maré wáynay maré waytóonay maré wóonay
past
conditional 		affirmative marinniyóy marinnitóy marinnáy marinnáy marinninóy marinnitoonúy marinnoonúy
negative maré wanniyóy maré wannitóy maré wannáy maré wannáy maré wanninóy maré wannitoonúy maré wanninoonúy
present
conditional I 		affirmative marék marték marék marték marrék marteeník mareeník
negative maré wéek maré wayték maré wéek maré wayték maré waynék maré wayteeník maré weeník
singular plural singular plural
consultative affirmative maróo marróo imperative affirmative már mára
negative mamaróo mamarróo negative mámarin mámarina
-h converb -i form -k converb -in(n)uh converb -innuk converb infinitive indefinite participle
V-focus N-focus
márah mári márak marínnuh marínnuk maríyya marináanih marináan
Compound tenses
past perfect affirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé
present perfect affirmative perfective + imperfective of én
future perfect affirmative perfective + prospective of sugé
past progressive -k converb + imperfective of én or sugé
present progressive affirmative imperfect + imperfective of én
future progressive -k converb + prospective of sugé
immediate future affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée
imperfect potential I affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké
imperfect
potential II 		affirmative imperfective + -m + takké
negative maré + imperfective of wée + -m + takké
perfect
potential 		affirmative perfective + -m + takké
negative maré + perfective of wée + -m + takké
present
conditional II 		affirmative imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék
negative maré + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék
perfect
conditional 		affirmative perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k
negative perfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k
irrealis maré + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “mare”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

Noun[edit]

mare f (definite singular marja)

  1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
  2. strawberry tree fruit

Derived terms[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mare

  1. Alternative form of mari

Bikol Central[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: ma‧re
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɾe/

Verb[edit]

máre

  1. Misspelling of mari.

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural mares)

  1. mother
    mare subrogada ― surrogate mother

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Corsican[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mare m

  1. sea

Danish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mara.

Noun[edit]

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

  1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

Declension[edit]

Declension of mare
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mare maren marer marerne
genitive mares marens marers marernes

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī (“story”).

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. (archaic) message, report, story
    Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal
  2. (archaic) rumor
    Synonym: gerucht
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Medieval Latin mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Related to German Maar.

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

  1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

  1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
  2. nightmare
  3. witch
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

mare

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from the Indo-European.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural mares)

  1. puddle
  2. pool

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmarə]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧rê

Noun[edit]

marê (first-person possessive mareku, second-person possessive maremu, third-person possessive marenya)

  1. (astronomy, planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

Further reading[edit]

Istriot[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. sea
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin māter.

Noun[edit]

mare f

  1. mother

See also[edit]

Italian[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare m (plural mari)

  1. sea

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

Latin[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun[edit]

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

  1. sea
    • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum , (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis):
      Neptunum regnatorem marum
      Neptune, ruler of the seas
    • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.1:
      [facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.
      In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.
    • 13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum):
      Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.
    • 1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto :
      a marī usque ad mare
      from sea to sea
Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mare maria
Genitive maris *marium
marum
Dative marī maribus
Accusative mare maria
Ablative marī
mare 		maribus
Vocative mare maria
  • The ablative singular can be marī or mare.
  • The genitive plural form *marium, although regularly formed for an i-stem noun, is not attested in the corpus of classical texts. Marum is found only once, in a line from Gnaeus Naevius.
  • The 5th/6th-century grammarian Priscian (Institutiones 7) says it is rarely used in the genitive plural, noting Caesar's use of maribus too. Similarly, the 4th-century grammarian Charisius claims it lacks both a genitive plural *marium and a *maribus form (but see the quotation from Julius Caesar above):

    "maria" tamen quamvis dicantur pluraliter, attamen nec "marium" nec "maribus" dicemus
    — although maria can be said in the plural, nevertheless we won't say marium nor maribus (Ars 1.11).

Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: amari, amare, mari
    • Istro-Romanian: måre
    • Megleno-Romanian: mari
    • Romanian: mare f
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Old French: mer f
  • Old Leonese: *mar
  • Old Occitan: mar
    • Catalan: mar m or f
    • Occitan: mar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mar m
    • Galician: mar m
    • Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: mar
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Venetian: mar
  • → English: mare
  • → Esperanto: maro
  • → Interlingua: mar
  • → Interlingue: mare

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. ablative singular of mās

References[edit]

  • mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Anagrams[edit]

Marau[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. water

References[edit]

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

Adjective[edit]

mâre

  1. famous, famed
  2. honoured, prestigious
  3. well-known
Inflection[edit]

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun[edit]

mâre f

  1. fame, famousness
  2. rumour
  3. message
Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā.

Noun[edit]

māre ?

  1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)
Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Munggui[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. water

References[edit]

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Neapolitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French mare.

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural mares)

  1. (France, Guernsey) pool

Northern Sotho[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. saliva

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mara.

Noun[edit]

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

  1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse mara f.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

  1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse merja (“to crush”).

Alternative forms[edit]

  • mara (split or a-infinitive)

Verb[edit]

mare (present tense marar, past tense mara, past participle mara, passive infinitive marast, present participle marande, imperative mare/mar)

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References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *marā.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare f (nominative plural maran)

  1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

Declension[edit]

Declension of mare (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mare maran
accusative maran maran
genitive maran marena
dative maran marum

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit”).

Adjective[edit]

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

  1. evil; bad

Adverb[edit]

mare

  1. evilly; badly

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative forms

Verb[edit]

mare

  1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

Papuma[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. water

References[edit]

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

mare

  1. inflection of marar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Several theories exist. One possibility is Latin maiōrem, masculine and feminine accusative singular of maiōr (“bigger”), irregularly clipped before the [j] → [d͡ʒ] sound change (the regular form would be *măjoare). Compare also Dalmatian maur (“large”). Another proposed etymology is Latin marem, accusative of mās (“male, man”) (however, the reason for the shift in meaning or the exact semantic development is uncertain; it may be because men are generally larger than women, or from a crossing with magnus, or more likely from use in idiomatic expressions (with equivalents found in many languages) such as s-a făcut mare, which can mean "he has grown up/grown older/become a man or adult", and this may have been eventually extended to mean "he/she has grown bigger", with the sense of the word shifting from "man/adult" to "big"). Less likely is the influence from mare (“sea”)[1]. Also found in Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian as mari (“big, large”).

Adjective[edit]

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

  1. big, large, great
    Antonym: mic
    O mare mare. ― A big sea.
  2. great, mighty
    Un om mare. ― A great man.
Inflection[edit]
Declension of mare
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite mare mare mari mari
definite marele marea marii marile
genitive/
dative 		indefinite mare mari mari mari
definite marelui marii marilor marilor
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mare f (plural mări)

  1. sea
    Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.
    When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.
Declension[edit]
Declension of mare
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) mare marea (niște) mări mările
genitive/dative (unei) mări mării (unor) mări mărilor
vocative mare, mareo mărilor
Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/mare

Sardinian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • mari (“Campidanese”)

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

Noun[edit]

mare m (plural mares)

  1. sea

Sonsorolese[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. boy

Tagalog[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Final clipping of kumare, from komadre.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: ma‧re
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɾe/, [ˈma.ɾɛ]

Noun[edit]

mare (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)

  1. (slang) close female friend; sister
    Ano'ng tsika, mare?
    What's the buzz, sister?
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan
    Coordinate terms: brad, pare, tol

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • “mare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
  • Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎[2], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

Tahitian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. (archaic) cough

Usage notes[edit]

Use hota.

Ternate[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. Alternative form of mari (“stone”)

References[edit]

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

Venda[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. saliva

Venetian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin mater.

Noun[edit]

mare f (invariable)

  1. mother

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin mare.

Noun[edit]

mare

  1. sea

Zazaki[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic مارا.

Noun[edit]

mare m or f

  1. marriage
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