मार

From मारना (mārnā, “to kill”).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /mɑːɾ/,

मार • (mār) f

1. killing
2. a beating, fight

   Synonyms: मारपीट (mārpīṭ), लड़ाई (laṛāī)

3. target; shot, strike, goal

   Synonym: निशाना (niśānā)

4. loss, grief

   Synonym: दुःख (duḥkh)

मार • (mār)

1. inflection of मारना (mārnā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

मार m

1. Devanagari script form of māra (“distraction”)

मार m

1. Devanagari script form of māra (“Mara”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mā́ras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́ras, from Proto-Indo-European *mór-os, from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with English mare (whence nightmare), German Mahr, Lithuanian mãras, Polish mara, Serbo-Croatian мо̏ра.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɑ́ː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.ɾɐ/

मार • (mā́ra)

1. (√मृ) killing, destroying

मार • (mā́ra) stem, m

1. death, pestilence
2. slaying, killing (compare पशु-म्°)
3. an obstacle, hindrance
4. the passion of love, god of love
5. (Buddhism) the Destroyer, Evil One (who tempts men to indulge their passions and is the great enemy of the बुद्ध and his religion; four मारs are enumerated in Dharmas. 80, viz. स्कन्ध-, क्लेश-, देवपुत्र-, and मृत्यु-म्°; but the later Buddhist theory of races of gods led to the figment of millions of मारs ruled over by a chief मार)
6. the thorn-apple L.
7. pestilence (also personified as the goddess of death and identified with दुर्गा)

• Balinese: ᬫᬵᬭ (mara)
• → Chinese: 魔羅 / 魔罗 (móluó)
  • → Japanese: 魔羅 (mara)
• → Indonesian: mara (“calamity”)
• → Khmer: មារ (miə)
• → Lü: ᦙᦱᧃ (maan)
• → Thai: มาร (maan, “demon”)

• Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899.