marra

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See also: Marra, marrá, and märra

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse margr.

Noun

marra (plural marras)

  1. (West Cumbrian [Predominantly], Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
    Cheers marra!
    Alreet marra?
    How's it garn marra?

References

  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

French

Pronunciation

Verb

marra

  1. third-person singular past historic of marrer

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin marra (“hoe”).

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

  1. maul, sledgehammer
  2. (archaic) hoe
    • 1412, José García Oro (ed.), Galicia en la Baja Edad Media. Iglesia, señorío y nobleza. Santiago: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 238:
      que page por esta medida cada lavrador que labrar con dous boys des e oyto medidas arrapadas e o que lavrar con huun boy nove medidas et o que lavrar con amarra tres medidas
      each peasant should pay by this measure: the one ploughing with two oxen, eighteen levelled measures; the one ploughing with one, nine measures; the one ploughing with a hoe, three

Etymology 2

From marrar (“to lack; to miss”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”).

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

  1. (dated) lack, shortage
    • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 206:
      que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra
      because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

References

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

marra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative marraði, supine marrað)

  1. to creak

Conjugation

marra — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að marra
supine
(sagnbót) 		marrað
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		marrandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég marra við mörrum present
(nútíð) 		ég marri við mörrum
þú marrar þið marrið þú marrir þið marrið
hann, hún, það marrar þeir, þær, þau marra hann, hún, það marri þeir, þær, þau marri
past
(þátíð) 		ég marraði við mörruðum past
(þátíð) 		ég marraði við mörruðum
þú marraðir þið mörruðuð þú marraðir þið mörruðuð
hann, hún, það marraði þeir, þær, þau mörruðu hann, hún, það marraði þeir, þær, þau mörruðu
imperative
(boðháttur) 		marra (þú) marrið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
marraðu marriði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin marra

Noun

marra f (plural marre)

  1. hoe
  2. fluke (of an anchor)

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Semitic via Ancient Greek μάρρον (márrhon); compare Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru [GEŠMAR]), Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marra), and Arabic مَرّ (marr).

Pronunciation

Noun

marra f (genitive marrae); first declension

  1. hoe
  2. hook, weeding-hook

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marra marrae
Genitive marrae marrārum
Dative marrae marrīs
Accusative marram marrās
Ablative marrā marrīs
Vocative marra marrae

Descendants

  • French: marre
  • Galician: marra
  • Italian: marra

References

  • “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • marra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “marra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “marra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Martuthunira

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Pama-Nyungan *marra.

Pronunciation

Noun

marra

  1. wing
  2. flipper

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.ʁa/
  • Hyphenation: mar‧ra

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

  1. boldness; courage

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

marra

  1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Spanish

Verb

marra

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of marrar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of marrar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of marrar.

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Gamilaraay mara.

Noun

marra

  1. hand

Yagara

Noun

marra

  1. hand
  2. five

References

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