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English
Verb
marre (third-person singular simple present marres, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)
- Obsolete spelling of mar
1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
See marrë (and marrtë).
Noun
márre f (plural márre, definite márrja, definite plural márret)
- shame
- Synonym: turp
- disgrace, dishonor
- Synonym: çnderim
- Antonyms: nder, nderim
- foolery, opaqueness, turpitude
- Synonyms: budallallëk, patejdukshmëri, poshtërsi
Related terms
French
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin marra.
Noun
marre f (plural marres)
- a sort of hoe (gardening tool)
Etymology 2
Probably related to Old French marrir "frustrate," but possibly instead to Old French merelle "attendance token, counting token" in the sense of "part due" and thus "to have enough."
Adverb
marre
- (colloquial) enough
Derived terms
Verb
marre
- inflection of marrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
marre
- inflection of marrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
marre f
- plural of marra
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁi, (Portugal) -aʁɨ
- Hyphenation: mar‧re
Verb
marre
- inflection of marrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
marre
- inflection of marrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative