marg

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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of margarine.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

marg (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of margarine.

Etymology 2

Clipping of margarita.

Pronunciation

Noun

marg (countable and uncountable, plural margs)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of margarita (“cocktail with tequila, orange liqueur, and lime”).
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Etymology 3

From Hindi मार्ग (mārg). Doublet of marga.

Pronunciation

Noun

marg (plural margs)

  1. (India) A road.
Usage notes
  • Occasionally encountered in regions outside India that have large Indian populations. For example, Gobind Marg is a street in Bradford, England.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Old Irish marg. Borrowing of Old Norse mǫrk from Proto-Germanic *markō. Distantly related to brugh, a native Celtic word.

Noun

marg f (genitive singular mairge, nominative plural marga)

  1. (literary) march, boundary
Declension
Declension of marg (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative marg marga
vocative a mharg a mharga
genitive mairge marg
dative marg
mairg (archaic, dialectal) 		marga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mharg na marga
genitive na mairge na marg
dative leis an marg
leis an mairg (archaic, dialectal)
don mharg
don mhairg (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na marga

Etymology 2

Old Irish marg. Borrowing of Old English marc from Proto-Germanic *marką. Doublet of marc.

Noun

marg m (genitive singular mairg, nominative plural mairg)

  1. mark (unit of currency)
Declension
Declension of marg (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative marg mairg
vocative a mhairg a mharga
genitive mairg marg
dative marg mairg
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an marg na mairg
genitive an mhairg na marg
dative leis an marg
don mharg 		leis na mairg

Mutation

Mutated forms of marg
radical lenition eclipsis
marg mharg not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin margo (“edge, margin, limit”).

Noun

marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural marger, definite plural margene)

  1. (typography) a margin

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mergr, from Proto-Germanic *mazgaz < *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos. Compare Icelandic mergur, Swedish märg, Danish marv, Dutch merg, German Mark, English marrow.

Noun

marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural marger, definite plural margene)

  1. marrow (substance inside bones)
  2. pith
Derived terms

See also

References

  • “marg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “marg” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin margo.

Noun

marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural margar, definite plural margane)

  1. (typography) a margin

Etymology 2

Noun

marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural margar, definite plural margane)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of merg

References

Phalura

Etymology

From Urdu مرگ (marg), from Persian مرگ (marg).

Pronunciation

Noun

marg m (Perso-Arabic spelling مرگ)

  1. death

Inflection

i-decl (Obl, pl): -í

References

  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “marg”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
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