marta

See also: Marta, MARTA, Márta, Mártá, martā, Märta, and Marťa

Catalan

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmar.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmaɾ.ta]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

marta f (plural martes)

1. alternative form of mart (“marten”)

Derived terms

• marta pescadora

Further reading

• “marta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Etymology

1439. From Proto-West Germanic *marþ (“marten”), maybe through Old French marte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾta̝/

Noun

marta f (plural martas)

1. marten

   Synonyms: martaraña, martuxa

   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 420:

     da pelica da marta, hua branca, et da lontra, dous diñeiros, et da raposa, hun diñeiro

     a marten pelt, a branca [coin]; and of otter, two diñeiros; and of fox, a diñeiro

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “marta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marta”, 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), “marta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hungarian

Etymology

mar +‎ -ta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrtɒ]
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

Verb

marta

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of mar

Participle

marta

1. verbal participle of mar

Derived terms

• rozsdamarta

Karelian

Regional variants of marta

North Karelian (Viena)	—
South Karelian (Tver)	marta

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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrtɑ/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

Noun

marta (genitive martan, partitive martua)

1. (South Karelian) March

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of marta (type 4/kala no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	marta	martat
genitive	martan	martoin
partitive	martua	martoida
illative	martah	martoih
inessive	martašša	martoissa
elative	martašta	martoista
adessive	martalla	martoilla
ablative	martalda	martoilda
translative	martakši	martoiksi
essive	martana	martoina
comitative	martanke	martoinke
abessive	martatta	martoitta
prolative	martačči	martoičči
instructive	—	martoin

Possessive forms of marta
1st person	martani
2nd person	martaš
3rd person	martah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• (North Karelian) kevätkuu, (South Karelian) keviäkuu

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “marta”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Latvian

Noun

marta m

1. genitive singular of marts

Portuguese

marta (Martes americana)

Etymology

From French marte, from Old High German mardar, from Proto-West Germanic *marþ.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈmah.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈmah.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈmaχ.tɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɻ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.ta/ [ˈmah.ta]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.tɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtɐ, (Brazil) -aʁtɐ
• Homophone: Marta
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

Noun

marta f (plural martas)

1. marten

Further reading

• “marta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “marta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French marte, from Old High German mardar, from Proto-West Germanic *marþ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾta/ [ˈmaɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Syllabification: mar‧ta

Noun

marta f (plural martas)

1. (zoology) marten

Hyponyms

• garduña (“beech marten (Martes foina)”)
• marta americana (“American marten (Martes americana)”)
• marta cibelina (“sable (Martes zibellina)”)
• marta de garganta amarilla (“yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula)”)
• marta de Nilgiri (“Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii)”)
• marta japonesa (“Japanese marten (Martes melampus”)
• marta pescadora (“fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti)”)

Further reading

• “marta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Uzbek

Noun

marta (plural martalar)

1. time (occurrence)

   bir marta ― once

   bir necha marta ― a few times, several times

   bir-ikki marta ― a couple of times

   koʻp marta ― many times

   yana bir ― one more time

   ikkinchi marta ― second time

   oxirgi marta ― (for the) last time

   yiliga bir marta ― once a year

   biror marta ham ― not once, never

   bir marta emas, ikki marta emas ― not once and not twice

   ikni martadan ― twice each