mart

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: märt, IPA^(key): /mɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. (Canada, US) A shop, store.

   FedMart, Wal-Mart

2. A bazaar, fair, marketplace.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 87:

     Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, / And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: / Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; / A man is Maſter of his libertie:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 23:3:

     And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, , London: J Johnson;  , →OCLC, page 38:

     In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart, / So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied, / As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill / Increaſing, London?

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 202:

     The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14:

     The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.

3. (obsolete) A bargain.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 217, column 2:

     Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, / And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

Derived terms

Verb

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

1. (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.

2. (obsolete) To traffic.

Etymology 2

From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. (obsolete) Battle; contest.

Etymology 3

Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

Noun

mart (uncountable)

1. (historical) Marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Related terms

Etymology 4

Scottish English, from Middle English , from a Scottish Gaelic root.

Noun

mart (plural marts)

1. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
2. (by extension, the animal or its meat) Salt beef.

Anagrams

• RATM, matr-, tarm, tram

Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani Wikipedia has an article on:

mart

Wikipedia ^az

Etymology

Internationalism; from Russian март (mart).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. (North Azerbaijani) March

   Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) مارس (mars)

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avqust, sentyabr, oktyabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: az:Months)}

Catalan

Alternative forms

• marta

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marþuz (“marten”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

Noun

mart m (plural marts)

1. A marten, especially the European pine marten (Martes martes).

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has an article on:

mart

Wikipedia ^crh

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

Noun

mart (accusative , plural )

1. March

   Synonym: saban ayı

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, mayıs, iyün, iyül, avgust, sentâbr, oktâbr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: crh:Months)}

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “mart”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Hungarian

Etymology

mar +‎ -t

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: mart

Verb

mart

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mar

Participle

mart

1. past participle of mar

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox or cow slaughtered for meat, ox- (cow-) carcass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˠaɾˠtˠ/

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, nominative plural mairt)

1. heifer or bullock carcass
2. heifer or bullock fattened for slaughter
3. (figurative) beefy person

Declension

Derived terms

• mairteoil f (“beef”)
• martán m (“small ox”)

Mutation

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mart”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart/
• Homophone: mard

Noun

mart

1. construct form of mara

Old Norse

Adjective

mart

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of margr

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch maart.

Noun

mart

1. March

See also

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

Romanian

Noun

mart m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of martie

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mart (“ox, cow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marˠʃt̪/

Noun

mart m (genitive singular mairt, plural mairt)

1. cow (due for or prepared for slaughter)
2. (Argyll) cow (any)

Synonyms

• bò

Derived terms

• mairtfheòil (“beef”)

Mutation

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mart”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mârt/

Noun

mȁrt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏рт)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) March

   Synonym: (Croatia) òžujak

Declension

Derived terms

• mȁrtovskī

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Tatar

Noun

mart (Cyrillic spelling март)

1. March

Declension

2=qa
3=nı
4=ta
5=tan

Related terms

• (month): Previous: febräl. Next: äpril

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مارت, from Byzantine Greek Μᾱ́ρτιος (Mā́rtios), from Latin martius.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; ocak, şubat, mart, nisan, mayıs, haziran, temmuz, ağustos, eylül, ekim, kasım, aralık ^{(Category: tr:Months)}

Turkmen

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mart

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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

Noun

mart (definite accusative marty, plural martlar)

1. March

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) aý; ýanwar, fewral, mart, aprel, maý, iýun, iýul, awgust, sentýabr, oktýabr, noýabr, dekabr ^{(Category: tk:Months)}

Uzbek

Uzbek Wikipedia has an article on:

mart

Wikipedia ^uz

Etymology

From Russian март (mart), from Latin mārtius.

Noun

mart (plural martlar)

1. March

Declension

Related terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) oy; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avgust, sentabr, oktabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: uz:Months)}