مر

• IPA^(key): /mar.ra/

مَرَّ • (marra) I (non-past يَمُرُّ (yamurru), verbal noun مَرّ (marr) or مُرُور (murūr) or مَمَرّ (mamarr))

1. to pass, to elapse, to go by, to cross
2. to go through(?) (constructed with ب (b))

   فهل تمر بمشاكل كهذه.

   Are you going through problems like this.

• مَرَّ مُرُورَ الْكِرَامِ (marra murūra l-kirāmi)

مَرَّ • (marra) I (first-person singular past مَرِرْتُ (marirtu), non-past يَمَرُّ (yamarru), verbal noun مَرَارَة (marāra))

1. to be bitter

مَرّ • (marr) m

1. passing, passage, going by, transit

Borrowed from Aramaic מרא / ܡܪܐ (marrā, “shovel”), from Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (GEŠ-MAR /⁠marru⁠/).

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مَرّ • (marr) m (plural مُرُور (murūr))

1. shovel, spade

Compare Hebrew מַר (mar), Classical Syriac ܡܪܝܪܐ (marrīrā), Akkadian 𒋀 (marru), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎗 (mr).

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مُرّ • (murr) (feminine مُرَّة (murra), masculine plural أَمْرَار (ʔamrār), feminine plural مَرَائِر (marāʔir), elative أَمَرّ (ʔamarr))

1. bitter
2. severe
3. sharp
4. painful

• Maltese: morr
• → Azerbaijani: mürr
• → Ottoman Turkish: مر (murr)
  • →⇒ Armenian: մռու (mṙu)
• → Persian: مر (morr)

مُرّ • (murr) m (plural أَمْرَار (ʔamrār))

1. myrrh, the dried sap of Commiphora myrrha

• → Middle Armenian: մուռ (muṙ)

مُرّ • (murr) m (collective, singulative مُرَّة f (murra))

1. myrrh, the plant Commiphora myrrha
2. (obsolete) dandelion (Taraxacum officinale sensu lato)

مر (form I)

1. مُرْ (mur) /mur/: second-person masculine singular imperative of أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to command”), أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to become an emir”), and أَمُرَ (ʔamura, “to become an emir”)
2. مَرْ (mar) /mar/: second-person masculine singular imperative of أَمِرَ (ʔamira, “to become an emir”) and أَمِرَ (ʔamira, “to grow, to become abundant; to become wealthy”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 576
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 86
• Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 70
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “مر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2699 seqq.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 979–980
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “مر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1056 seqq.
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 41

مر (mir)

1. hen

• مامر (mamir)
• مراوی (mrawî)
• مریشک (mrîşk)

مر (mar)

1. mother

From Arabic مُرّ (murr).

مر • (murr, mürr)

1. bitter

• →⇒ Armenian: մռու (mṙu)

مر • (murr, mürr)

1. bitterness
2. myrrh

• →? Armenian: մուռ (muṙ)

• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “مر”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 776b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1143b
• Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “միւրր”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary]‎, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 648a

From Middle Persian (ml /⁠mar⁠/, “number; account; class”).

مر • (mar) (obsolete)

1. Occurs before a word or phrase followed by را (râ), the accusative-dative-genitive marker.

   مرین مرد را گفتم. (obsolete)

   mar īn mard rā guftam.

   I told this man.

   • c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 4”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]‎:

     سلام کن ز من ای باد مر خراسان را
     مر اهل فضل و خرد را نه عام نادان را

     salām kun zi man ay bād mar xurāsān rā
     mar ahl-i fazl u xirad rā na āmm-i nādān rā

     O wind, send my greetings to Khurāsān,
     To its wise and excellent men, not to the ignorant masses.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   1. Used redundantly with را, with no additional meaning.
   2. that very, only; used with a restrictive sense.
   3. Used to denote that را is being used for an indirect object, especially in later usage when را became increasingly associated with the direct object.
2. In later texts, sometimes used without را simply for archaic effect, without any semantic meaning.
3. number, amount, quantity, limit
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 75:

     بمن همیشه جفا گر کنی نمی‌رنجم
     که دیده‌ام ز تو الطاف بی حد و بی مر

     ba-man hamēša jafā gar kunī na-mē-ranjam
     ki dīda'am zi tu altāf-i bē hadd u bē mar

     Though you always torment me, I am not vexed,
     For I have seen favors from you beyond count and limit.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Borrowed from Arabic مُرّ (murr).

مر • (morr)

1. myrrh

مر • (morr)

1. (archaic, rare) bitter

   Synonym: تلخ (talx)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 344:

     گفت ای شه گوش و دستم را ببر
     بینی‌‌ام بشکاف و لب در حکم مر

     guft ay šah gūš u dast-am rā biburr
     bīnī-am biškāf u lab dar hukm-i murr

     “O king,” said he, “cut off my ears and hands, rip my nose and lips by bitter decree.”

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• IPA^(key): /moɾ/

مر • (mor)

1. (Herati) Dialectal form of مار (mâr, “snake”)

• Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz (2018) “Specialization of an ancient object marker in the New Persian of the fifteenth century”, in Alireza Korangy, Corey Miller, editors, Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, pages 81–101

مَر • (mar)

1. inflection of مَرݨا (marṇā, “to die; die for”):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular familiar imperative

From Arabic مَرَّ (marra).

• IPA^(key): /marr/,

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مرّ • (marr) I (present بمرّ (bimorr))

1. to pass, to pass by
2. to undergo

From Arabic مُرّ (murr).

مرّ • (murr) (feminine مرّة (murra))

1. bitter

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