marrar

See also: märrar

Galician

Etymology

14th century. From West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”): compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan), German merren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈraɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to lack
   • 1807, anonymous, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.

     wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else

2. to miss, to fail
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: CSIC:

     meteu mão a espada, e en coydandoo de matar, marroo e doulle ẽno cavalo

     He draw the sword, and while trying to kill him, he missed and hit the horse

   • 1436, Xesús Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 404:

     do dia que a dar feita e posta ena ágoa, que seja vista ata triinta dias primeiros sigentes por los ditos ofiçiáas se algua cousa en ela marra

     from the day [the ship] is finished and launched into the water, it should be verified by the aforementioned officials for as much as the thirty following days to see if something fails

Derived terms

• marra (“lack, shortage”)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “marrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Verb

1. to miss

See also

• extrañar