marra

English

Alternative forms

• marrow

Etymology

From Old Norse margr.

Noun

marra (plural marras)

1. (West Cumbria, Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

   Cheers marra!

   Alreet marra?

   Hoo's it gaan marra?

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

Anagrams

• Arram

Basque

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mara/,

Noun

marra inan

1. line (continuous mark)
2. border

Declension

Further reading

• "marra" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
• “marra” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Verb

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: marras, marrât

Verb

marra

1. third-person singular past historic of marrer

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmara̝/

Etymology 1

From Latin marra (“hoe”), probably from a Semitic language, ultimately from Akkadian. Compare Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marrā, “hoe, shovel”), Arabic مَرّ (marr, “shovel, spade”), and Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru).

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

1. maul, sledgehammer
2. (archaic) hoe
   • 1412, José García Oro, editor, Galicia en la Baja Edad Media. Iglesia, señorío y nobleza, Santiago: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 238:

     que page por esta medida cada lavrador que labrar con dous boys des e oyto medidas arrapadas e o que lavrar con huun boy nove medidas et o que lavrar con amarra tres medidas

     each peasant should pay by this measure: the one ploughing with two oxen, eighteen levelled measures; the one ploughing with one, nine measures; the one ploughing with a hoe, three

Etymology 2

Deverbal from marrar (“to lack; to miss”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”).

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

1. (dated) lack, shortage
   • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 206:

     que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra

     because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

Etymology 3

Verb

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “marra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “marra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “marra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “marra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “marra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarːa/
• Rhymes: -arːa

Verb

marra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative marraði, supine marrað)

1. to creak

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin marra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/
• Rhymes: -arra
• Hyphenation: màr‧ra

Noun

marra f (plural marre)

1. hoe
2. fluke (of an anchor)

Related terms

• smarrare
• smarratura

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Semitic via Ancient Greek μάρρον (márrhon); compare Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru ), Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marra), and Arabic مَرّ (marr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/,

Noun

marra f (genitive marrae); first declension

1. hoe
2. hook, weeding-hook

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Corsican: marra, merra
• French: marre
• Galician: marra
• Italian: marra

References

• “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• marra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “marra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “marra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian marra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/

Noun

marra f (plural marar, paucal marriet)

1. mattock, pickaxe
2. (nautical) fluke (of an anchor)

Martuthunira

Etymology

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *marra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mara/

Noun

marra

1. wing
2. flipper

References

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: mar‧ra

Etymology 1

Noun

marra f (plural marras)

1. boldness; courage

   Synonyms: coragem, valentia

Derived terms

• na marra
• marrento

Etymology 2

Verb

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Wiradjuri

Alternative forms

• mura
• murra

Etymology

Compare Gamilaraay mara.

Noun

marra

1. hand

Yagara

Noun

marra

1. hand
2. five

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.
• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Indigenous Numbers.