mar

Translingual

Symbol

mar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marathi.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹ/, ,
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mar

• Audio (Southern England)

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Etymology 1

From Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit mṛṣ (“forget, neglect”).

Alternative forms

• marre (obsolete)

Verb

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Prospero: […] huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, →OCLC:

     Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, book I, page 218:

     Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.

   • 1826, Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes. Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Published by N. Bangs and J. Emory, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 13, Crosby-Street, Jeremiah 18:3–4, page 53:

     […] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

   • 1856, Jabez Burns, “The Heralds of Mercy”, in Cyclopedia of Sermons: Containing Sketches of Sermons on the Parables and Miracles of Christ, on Christian Missions, on Scripture Characters and Incidents; on Subjects Appropriate for the Sick Room, Family Reading and Village Worship and some Special Occasions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, →OCLC, page 253:

     Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.

   • 2000, Vanessa Gunther, “The Indian Giver”, in Gordon Morris Bakken, editor, Law in the Western United States (Legal History of North America; 6), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 271:

     The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.

   • 2007, Zeno W. Wicks, Jr., Frank N. Jones, S. Peter Pappas, Douglas A. Wicks, Organic Coatings: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, →ISBN, pages 85 and 210:

     [page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.

   • 2018 July 10, “Cave rescue: Final push under way in Thailand”, in bbc.com‎, BBC, retrieved 2018-07-10:

     They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more. If confirmed, one child and an adult remain to be rescued, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver's death.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mar (plural mars)

1. A blemish.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.

Derived terms

• marless

Etymology 2

See mere. Doublet of mare and mere.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

mar (plural mars)

1. A small lake.

Etymology 3

See mayor.

Noun

mar (plural mars)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

References

• “mar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar/

• Audio

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Adverb

mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

Conjunction

mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch maar.

Conjunction

mar

1. but

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mare

Noun

mar m (plural mars)

1. sea

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

mar

Wikipedia ^ast

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/,

Noun

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea (body of water)

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

• Audio (Valencian)

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• Homophones: ma, mà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m or f (plural mars)

1. sea

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “mar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mar (“sea”).

Noun

mar

1. sea

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr/,
• Rhymes: -ɑr
• Syllabification^(key): mar

Interjection

mar

1. Alternative form of maar.

Further reading

• “mar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. swell

   Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar ― Today we are not going, there is too much swell

3. (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity

   Synonyms: monte, mundo, chea

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.

Noun

mar

1. sea

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Rhymes: -ɒr

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”).

Verb

mar

2. (transitive, intransitive) to bite (of animals; used either with -t/-ot/-at/-et/-öt or with -ba/-be)

   Synonyms: harap, tép

3. (transitive, intransitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)

   Synonym: roncsol

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

Noun

mar (uncountable)

2. withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)

Declension

Derived terms

• marmagasság

References

Further reading

• (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar/

Adjective

mar

1. expensive

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *marhaz.

Noun

mar m (genitive singular mars, nominative plural marar or marir)

1. (poetic) horse

Declension

or

Etymology 2

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.

Noun

mar m (genitive singular marar)

1. (poetic) the sea

Declension

Etymology 3

First attested at the end of the 18th century. Related to merja (“to crush, bruise”).

Noun

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

1. bruise, contusion

Declension

References

• “mar” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

Interlingua

Noun

mar (plural mares)

1. sea

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠɑɾˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠaɾˠ/, (unstressed) /ˈmˠəɾˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish immar.

Conjunction

mar

1. because

   Synonyms: óir, toisc go, arae, de bhrí go

2. as

   Fan mar atá tú.

   Stay as you are.

Derived terms

Preposition

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. like
2. as

Synonyms

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”), probably contaminated by mar (“as, like”) or with dissimilation in forms like early modern a mbail a bhfuil, cognate with Scottish Gaelic far (“where”), compare Old Irish fail (“where”).

Adverb

mar

1. where (relative, not interrogative, followed by indirect relative)

   Fan mar a bhfuil tú.

   Stay where you are.

Further reading

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: màr

Noun

mar m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of mare (“sea”) (used in poetry and in names of some seas)

Derived terms

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mar.

Noun

mar

1. sea
2. ocean

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian mare, from Latin.

Noun

mar

1. sea

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مَارَ (māra, “to budge, to move forth, to fluctuate, to undergo commotion”) in form, influenced by Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass”) in meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Verb

mar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawra or mawrien)

1. to go

Conjugation

• Note: Predominantly conjugated like a hollow root, but the original gemination surfaces prevocalically, i.e. in the plural imperfect as well as the third-person feminine and plural

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /mʲærˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {mar}

Noun

mar

1. a bush
2. a shrub
3. a boondock
4. a thicket

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Norman

Alternative forms

• mare (continental Normandy, Guernsey)
• mathe (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Sark) pool

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mar m

1. snake
2. marriage

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea (large body of water)

Derived terms

• liri de mar

Old French

Adjective

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. Alternative form of mare

Adverb

mar

1. Alternative form of mare

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

Noun

mar m

1. sea
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)

     Mia irmana fremoſa treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.

     Lovely sister, come willingly / To the church in Vigo, where the sea is up, / And we will gaze at the waves.

Descendants

• Galician: mar m
• Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)

Old Norse

Noun

mar

1. accusative/dative singular of marr

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: mar

Noun

mar f

1. genitive plural of mara

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mar

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ
• Homophone: mal (Caipira Brazil)
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. (planetology) mare

   Synonym: mare

3. (figurative) a multitude; a great amount or number of things

   um mar de possibilidades ― a multitude of possibilities

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: mar, már

Etymology 2

Adverb

mar

1. Eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mer (Puter)

Etymology

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

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea

Noun

mar m (plural mars)

1. (Vallader) sea

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• (Lewis) man

Etymology

From Old Irish immar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾ/

Preposition

mar (+ nominative with the definite article, + dative otherwise, triggers lenition)

1. as
2. like

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *marъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâːr/

Noun

mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)

1. (rare) diligence
2. (rare) eagerness, zeal

Declension

See also

• marljivost
• marljiv

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *mar-/*mir-/*mur-.

Verb

mar

1. to pass, to proceed

References

• “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mar

Noun

mar m or f same meaning (plural mares)

1. sea
   • 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎ (CD), performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique:

     En la mar hay una torre
     En la torre una ventana
     En la ventana hay una hija
     Que a los marineros ama.

     In the middle of the sea there's a tower
     In the tower there's a window
     At the window there's a maiden
     Who loves the sailors.

2. seaside
3. (selenology) lunar mare
4. (la mar) loads
5. (la mar de) really; hella

Usage notes

• Mar is usually treated as a masculine noun in formal prose and as a feminine noun by sailors or in poetry.

Hyponyms

• See also Category:es:Seas.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Aymara: lamara
• Classical Nahuatl: láma̱r
• Papiamentu: lama, laman

Further reading

• “mar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sumerian

Romanization

mar

1. Romanization of 𒈥 (mar)

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

mar

1. March; Abbreviation of mars.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

Etymology 2

From Germanic mari-. mardröm is unrelated.

Noun

mar

1. (rare) sea (large body of salt water)
2. (rare) shallow, muddy bay (of the sea)
   • Geddan trifves bland vass i vikar och marar. (Carl Ulrik Cederström, Fiskodling och Sveriges fiskerier, 1857, page 83.)
3. (rare) small body of water, marsh
4. (rare) meadowland (which used to be seabed)
5. (rare) low, sandy beach of the sea, flying sand field

Related terms

• mar-
• mareld
• marsvin
• markatta
• marso
• marsugga
• martorn
• marulk
• manet
• moras

Anagrams

• arm, ram

Tat

Etymology

Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).

Noun

mar

1. snake

Torres Strait Creole

Noun

mar

1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

Synonyms

• mari (eastern dialect)

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Italian mare.

Noun

mar m (plural mari)

1. sea

West Frisian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

mar

1. only, solely

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Conjunction

mar

1. but

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun

mar c (plural marren)

1. but

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari.

Noun

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)

1. lake

Further reading

• “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Wolof

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

mar

1. thirst

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾ/

Noun

mar

1. star

References

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• mor

Etymology

Related to Persian مار (mâr)

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m

1. (zoology) snake

mar f

1. (family) mother (specification)