Mars

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

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From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors.

Mars (plural (rare) Marses)

2. (astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂

   Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.

   • 1953, John Wyndham [pseudonym; John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], “Phase One”, in The Kraken Wakes, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, published 1966, page 12:

     ‘There’s another one. There can’t be two Marses,’ said Phyllis. / And sure enough there was. A smaller red point, a little up from, and to the right of, the first.

   • 1964 November 30, Philip K[indred] Dick, “[To Carol Carr]”, in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, volume 1 (1938–1971), Grass Valley, Calif.: Underwood Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:

     Well, see, we’re building a steam-driven solar system from a kit. (Cheaper than the Japanese miniaturized, transistorized models, which have two Marses and no Earth sometimes.)

   • 1977, Ian Watson, “Mummy-cloth”, in The Martian Inca, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, section four, page 47:

     The planet Mars, seen by Cro-Magnon eyes, presumably was a blue summer world with air and water. Winter Mars, seen by modem man, a red ice-capped desert. Two Marses coincided briefly in his mind’s eye, then rushed apart into endless cycles of Red and Blue … Human fingers intended to halt Mars at the moment of perfection, and hold a whole world there!

   • 2018 September 22, Marissa Carruthers, “Five of the best places to go off grid in Asia, get back to nature and away from office phone calls”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 September 2018, Travel & Leisure:

     With its Mars-like landscape, visiting Gurbantunggut Desert feels like escaping to another world.

4. (Roman mythology) The Roman god of war.

   Synonym: Ares

   Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.

5. (poetic) War; a personification of war.

   In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.

   • 1918, Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia, page 57:

     Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.

   • 1944, McGraw-Hill, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 145, page 54:

     A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars ... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities ... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation ...

   • 1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10:

     The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.

• (astronomy, astrology): ♂

Mars (uncountable)

1. (heraldry, rare) Gules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
   • 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:

     4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol. [...] 12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England.

   • 1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry [...] Second Edition:

     George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown. All within the Garter. Above the whole a Helmet suitable to his Majesty's Royal Jurisdiction, upon the same a rich Mantle of Cloth of Gold, doubled Ermine, a […]

   • 1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium [...] vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:

     8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony. Note, these Ensigns (which are the paternal Coat of his Majesty King George) I have added as an Example, to shew the Form of what foreign Heralds term Tierce in Mantle, ente en Pointe, &c. […]

   • 1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:

     ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

2. (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Iron.

• planets of the Solar System: Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune ^[edit]
• Phobos, Deimos

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star	Sun
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Moon	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymede Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

After Franklin Clarence Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars. His surname is possibly a variant of Marrs,^[1] itself from Marr with post-medieval excrescent -s.^[2]

Mars

1. Ellipsis of Mars bar, a brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
   • 1985, Michael Collier, Longest Day, page 206:

     Easily eight foot tall, each was big, brown and glutinous - like giant Mars Bars squeezed and welded into nightmarish sculptures.

   • 2024 November 30, Nathan Briant, “Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     A man who caused an online storm when he found a Mars bar without its signature ripple has received £2 in compensation.

• Mars Bar party

• M&M

From Ukrainian Марс (Mars).

• IPA^(key): /maɹs/, /mɑ˞s/

Mars

1. A village in Semenivka urban hromada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

• Mars, Chernihiv Oblast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Mars

1. Alternative form of Mas.

• M.R.A.S., S/MAR, MRAs, SARM, MRSA, mas'r, ASMR, MSAR, Rams, RAMs, Masr, AMRs, ASRM, rasm, arms, ARMs, SRAM, rams

From Dutch Mars.

• Hyphenation: Mars

Mars

2. (astronomy) Mars
4. (Roman mythology) Mars

• planets of the Solar System: planete van die Sonnestelsel: Mercurius · Venus · Aarde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturnus · Uranus · Neptunus ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmars]
• Oblique cases of the inanimate sense are pronounced /marz-/.

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• Rhymes: -ars

Mars m inan (relational adjective marsovský or marťanský or martský, demonym Marťan)

2. (inanimate) Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system

Mars m anim (relational adjective Marsův or Martův)

2. (Roman mythology, animate) Mars, the Roman god of war

Solar System in Czech · sluneční soustava (layout · text)
Star	Slunce
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkur	Venuše	Země	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uran	Neptun	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Měsíc	Phobos/Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymed Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

• “Mars”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Mars”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Mars”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Jitka Štindlová, Zaměřil dalekohled na Jupiter nebo na Jupitera?, Naše řeč, volume 49 (1966)

Mars

2. Mars (planet)

• planets of the Solar System: planeter i solsystemet: Merkur · Venus · Jorden~jorden · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): /mɑrs/

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• Hyphenation: Mars
• Rhymes: -ɑrs
• Homophone: mars

From Latin Mārs.

Mars m

2. (astronomy) Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• Maarten, Martijn, Martin, Martinus
• Maartje, Martine, Martina

First attested as mersche in 1307. Derived from meers (“land next to water, swampland, pasture”).

Mars n

1. a neighborhood of Land van Cuijk, North Brabant, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrs/

Mars (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

Borrowed from German Mars.

• IPA^(key): /márs/

Mars

1. March (month)

   Coordinate term: (native term) Tedoxe

From Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /maʂː/
• Rhymes: -aʂː
• Homophone: mars

Mars m

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• planets of the Solar System: gongustjørnur i sólskipanini: Merkur · Venus · jørðin · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

From Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrs/, [ˈmɑ̝rs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrs
• Syllabification^(key): Mars
• Hyphenation^(key): Mars

Mars

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)
5. (uncommon) a Swedish surname

Solar System in Finnish · Aurinkokunta (layout · text)
Star	Aurinko
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkurius	Venus	Maa (Tellus)	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturnus	Uranus	Neptunus	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Kuu	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymedes Kallisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Japetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Kharon	Dysnomia

Circa 1150, from Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /maʁs/

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Mars m

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• → Persian: مارس (mârs)

Learned borrowing from Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Mars

Mars m (proper noun, strong, genitive Mars' or (with an article) Mars)

2. (Roman mythology) Mars

Mars m (proper noun, strong, genitive Mars)

2. (astronomy) Mars

• Marsoberfläche

From Low German [Term?].

Mars m (strong, genitive Mars, plural Marse) or
Mars f (genitive Mars, plural Marsen)

1. (nautical) crow's nest

or

• planets of the Solar System: Planeten des Sonnensystems: Merkur · Venus · Erde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• “Mars” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mars (Planet)” in Duden online
• “Mars (Römischer Gott)” in Duden online
• “Mars (Plattform, Schiff)” in Duden online

From Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrʃ]
• Hyphenation: Mars
• Rhymes: -ɒrʃ

Mars

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• marsi

From Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar̥s/
• Rhymes: -ar̥s
• Homophone: mars

Mars m (proper noun, genitive singular Mars)

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text)
Star	Sólin
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkúr	Venus	Jörðin	Mars	Seres	Júpíter	Satúrnus	Úranus	Neptúnus	Plútó	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Tunglið	Fóbos Deimos	—	Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó	Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus	Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon	Tríton	Karon	Dysnómía

From Dutch Mars, from Latin Mars.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmars/ [ˈmars]
• Rhymes: -ars
• Syllabification: Mars

Mars

1. Mars
   1. (astronomy) the fourth planet in the Solar System; represented by the symbol ♂

      Synonym: Marikh (rare)

   2. (Roman mythology) the Roman god of war

• (astronomy, rare): Marikh

Solar System in Indonesian · Tata Surya (layout · text)
Star	Matahari
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkurius	Venus	Bumi	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturnus	Uranus	Neptunus	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Bulan	Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganimede Kalisto	Mimas Enseladus Tetis Dione Rea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Kharon	Disnomia

• “Mars” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin Mārs.

Mars m (genitive Marsa)

2. Mars (planet)

   Synonym: Máirt

4. Mars (Roman god)

• planets of the Solar System: Mearcair · Véineas · Domhan · Mars · Iúpatar · Satarn · Úránas · Neiptiún ^[edit]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Mars”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Mars”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Mars”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Old Latin Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis,^[1] or from Proto-Italic *Māmart-. If Māvors indeed comes from *Māmart-, the apparent change */-m-/ to */-w-/ is a unique and isolated change.^[2] Mamers was his Oscan name. He was also known as Marmor, Marmar and Maris, the latter from the Etruscan deity Maris. See also the Lapis Satricanus, where 𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓𐌕𐌄𐌆 (Mamartei) is attested. Possibly also related to Sanskrit मरुत् (marut, “Maruts, violent storm-gods”).^[3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaːrs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmars]

Mārs m sg (genitive Mārtis); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) Mars (god of war)
2. (astronomy) Mars (planet)
3. (alchemy, chemistry) iron

The name of the god could, through interpretatio romana, serve to replace the name of a war god in a foreign language. Thus Saxo Grammaticus, for example, uses the term to refer to the Norse god Odin, alternating it with the borrowed form Ōthinus.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Mārs m (genitive Mārtis); third declension

1. war, battle, conflict

   aequato Marte ― made equal the battle

Third-declension noun.

• French: Mars
• Italian: Marte
• Portuguese: Marte
• Romanian: Marte
• Sicilian: Marti
• Spanish: Marte
• → Middle English: Mars

• Dizionario-latino, Olivetti

Mars m

1. vocative singular of Marss

From Latin Mārs.

• IPA^(key): /mars/

Mars

1. The Roman god governing war; .
2. The red-coloured planet visible to the naked eye: .

• Marte

• marcyan

• English: Mars

• mars

• “Mars, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2018.

From Norwegian Mars.

Mars

2. Mars (planet)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• planets of the Solar System: Merkur · Venus · Eana · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): /maːrs/, [maːʂ]

Mars

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• planets of the Solar System: planeter, planetar: Merkur · Venus · jorda · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmars/

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• Rhymes: -ars
• Syllabification: Mars

Learned borrowing from Latin Mārs. Doublet of marzec.

Mars m pers (related adjective marsowy)

1. (Roman mythology) Mars (Roman god of war)

Mars m animal (related adjective marsjański)

1. Mars (the fourth planet from the Sun)

Solar System in Polish · Układ Słoneczny (layout · text)
Star	Słońce
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkury	Wenus	Ziemia	Mars	Ceres	Jowisz	Saturn	Uran	Neptun	Pluton	—
Notable moons	—	—	Księżyc	Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganimedes Kallisto	Mimas Enceladus Tetyda Dione Rea Tytan Japet	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Tytania Oberon	Tryton	Charon	—

After Franklin Clarence Mars founder of Mars, Incorporated.

Mars m animal

1. Mars bar (chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling)

• Mars in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Mars in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /mârs/

Mȁrs m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рс)

2. (inanimate) Mars (planet)
4. (animate) Mars (Roman god)

inanimate

animate

• IPA^(key): /máːrs/

Mȃrs m anim

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

Planet:

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Márs
genitive	Mársa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Márs
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Mársa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Mársu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Márs
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Mársu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Mársom

God (or sometimes the planet):

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative	Márs
genitive	Mársa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Márs
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Mársa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Mársu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Mársa
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Mársu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Mársom

• planets of the Solar System: planéti osónčja: Merkúr · Vénera · Zémlja · Márs · Júpiter · Satúrn · Urán · Neptún ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): /mars/
• IPA^(key): /maʂː/

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planet

♂	Previous:	jorden
	Next:	Jupiter

Mars c (genitive Mars)

2. Mars (planet)
4. Mars (Roman god)

• planets of the Solar System: planeter i solsystemet: Merkurius · Venus · jorden · Mars · Jupiter · Saturnus · Uranus · Neptunus ^[edit]
• mars (“March”)

• arms, rams

Mars

2. Mars (planet)

• 8 klassik planetağa qarıy, menä alar: Merkuri, Venera, Cir, Mars, Yupiter, Saturn, Uran häm Neptun. Pluto xäzer başqa kategoriädä, ul kärlä planeta...

From English March.

Mars

1. March

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾs/

Mars

1. (astronomy) Mars (planet)

   Synonyms: Merih, Sakıt

2. (Roman mythology) Mars (Roman god)

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

• IPA^(key): /mars/

Mars c (no plural)

1. Mars (planet)
2. Mars (god)

• “Mars (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From French mars.

Mars

1. March

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