mar

Clipping of English Marathi or Marathi मराठी (marāṭhī).

mar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marathi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Marathi terms

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mar

• Audio (Southern England):

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Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).

• marre (obsolete)

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
   • 1551, William Turner, “Prologe”, in A new Herball, etc.‎^[2], folio Aiiii:

     […] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Prospero: […] huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, →OCLC:

     Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 218:

     Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.

   • 1826, Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes. Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Published by N. Bangs and J. Emory, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 13, Crosby-Street, Jeremiah 18:3–4, page 53:

     […] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

   • 1856, Jabez Burns, “The Heralds of Mercy”, in Cyclopedia of Sermons: Containing Sketches of Sermons on the Parables and Miracles of Christ, on Christian Missions, on Scripture Characters and Incidents; on Subjects Appropriate for the Sick Room, Family Reading and Village Worship and some Special Occasions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, →OCLC, page 253:

     Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.

   • 2000, Vanessa Gunther, “The Indian Giver”, in Gordon Morris Bakken, editor, Law in the Western United States (Legal History of North America; 6), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 271:

     The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.

   • 2007, Zeno W. Wicks, Jr., Frank N. Jones, S. Peter Pappas, Douglas A. Wicks, Organic Coatings: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, →ISBN, pages 85 and 210:

     [page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.

   • 2018 July 10, “Cave rescue: Final push under way in Thailand”, in bbc.com‎^[3], BBC, retrieved 10 July 2018:

     They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more. If confirmed, one child and an adult remain to be rescued, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver's death.

mar (plural mars)

1. A blemish.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.

• marless

Variant of mere.

mar (plural mars)

1. Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).

See mayor.

mar (plural mars)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

• “mar, variant of mere, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “mar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram

• IPA^(key): /mar/

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mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) alternative form of maar

mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) alternative form of maar

Borrowed from Dutch maar.

mar

1. but

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[4], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Inherited from Latin mare

mar m (plural mars)

1. sea

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/ [ˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mar

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea (body of water)

Inherited from Latin mare.

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea

Inherited from Old Catalan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmar]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Homophones: ma, mà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m or f (plural mars)

1. sea

• “mar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish mar (“sea”).

mar

1. sea

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr/, [ˈmɑ̝r]
• Rhymes: -ɑr
• Syllabification^(key): mar
• Hyphenation^(key): mar

mar

1. alternative form of maar

• “mar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar, from Latin mare. Compare Portuguese mar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/ [ˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. swell

   Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar ― Today we are not going, there is too much swell

3. (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity

   Synonyms: monte, mundo, chea

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Derived from Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.

mar

1. sea

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒr]

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• Rhymes: -ɒr

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”). ^[1][2]

mar

2. (ambitransitive) to bite (of animals, chiefly snakes, sometimes

dogs or chinches; used either with -t/-ot/-at/-et/-öt or with -ba/-be)

1. Synonyms: harap, tép

2. (ambitransitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)

   Synonym: roncsol

(With verbal prefixes):

mar (uncountable)

2. withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)

• marmagasság

• (to bite): mar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (withers): mar in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /mar/

mar

1. expensive

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

Inherited from Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *marhaz.

mar m (genitive singular mars, nominative plural marar or marir)

1. (poetic) horse

Inherited from Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.

mar m (genitive singular marar, no plural)

1. (poetic) the sea

First attested at the end of the 18th century. Related to merja (“to crush, bruise”).

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

1. bruise, contusion
   • 1903, Búnaðarfélag Íslands, Búnaðarrit, Ríkisprentsmiðjan Gutenberg:

     Þannig fylgir hitasótt jafnan stórum mörum og beinbrotum.

     Thus, fever is often accompanied by large bruises and fractures.

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “mar”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

mar (plural mares)

1. sea

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠɑɾˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠaɾˠ/, (unstressed) /ˈmˠəɾˠ/^[1]

Derived from Old Irish immar.

mar

1. because

   Synonyms: óir, toisc go, arae, de bhrí go

2. as

   Fan mar atá tú.

   Stay as you are.

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. like
2. as

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”) or fail (“place, where”), influenced by mar (“as, like”) or with dissimilation in forms like early modern a mbail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil, cognate with Scottish Gaelic far (“where”).

mar

1. where (relative, not interrogative, followed by indirect relative)

   Fan mar a bhfuil tú.

   Stay where you are.

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: màr

mar m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of mare (“sea”) (used in poetry and in names of some seas)

Derived from Portuguese mar.

mar

1. sea
2. ocean

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Spanish mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mar f (Hebrew spelling מאר)^[1]

1. sea (a large body of salt water)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Vejés liviana‎^[6], נור הפקות, page 59:

     Vinieron al bodre de la mar. Avía un barko, i los ombres se suvieron enriva del barko, i él se suvió kon eyos. Empesaron a lavorar a las velas, i el barko partió.

     They came to the sea’s edge. There was a ship, and the men climbed on top of it, and it rose up with them. They began to work on the sails, and the ship departed.

Akin to Italian mare, from Latin.

mar

1. sea

Inherited from Arabic مَارَ (māra, “to budge, to move forth, to fluctuate, to undergo commotion”) in form, influenced by Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass”) in meaning.

• IPA^(key): /maːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

mar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawra or mawrien)

1. to go
   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Niftakar li kont mort mal-folla u ma’ sħabi ta’ l-Azzjoni Kattolika biex nilqgħuh fi dħul iż-Żejtun.

     I remember that I went with the group and with my friends from 'Catholic Action', so we can welcome him at the entrance of Żejtun.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [mʲɑrˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /mʲærˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {mar}

mar

1. a bush
2. a shrub
3. a boondock
4. a thicket

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• mare (continental Normandy, Guernsey)
• mathe (Jersey)

Inherited from Old French mare.

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Sark) pool

mar m

1. snake
2. marriage

Inherited from Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

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mar f (plural mars)

1. sea (large body of water)

• liri de mar

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. alternative form of mare

mar

1. alternative form of mare

• mare

Inherited from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

mar m (plural mars)

1. sea
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)

     Mia irmana fremoſa treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.

     Lovely sister, come willingly / To the church in Vigo, where the sea is up, / And we will gaze at the waves.

• Galician: mar m
• Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "mar ~ mare"

mar

1. accusative/dative singular of marr

Inherited from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).

mar f

1. sea (a large body of salt water)
   • […] and from where it starts running to where it enters the sea, there are two hundred miles., Alfonso X, Lapidario, page f. 83v.:

     […] ⁊ dond ell comiença a correr faſta do entra en la mar, a dozientos migeros.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Ladino: mar, מאר
• Spanish: mar

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 326

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: mar

mar f

1. genitive plural of mara

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Galician mar.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ
• Homophones: mal (Caipira Brazil), má (non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. (planetology) mare

   Synonym: mare

3. (figurative) a multitude; a great amount or number of things

   um mar de possibilidades ― a multitude of possibilities

• Kabuverdianu: mar, már

mar

1. eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese

• mer (Puter)

Inherited from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea

mar m (plural mars)

1. (Vallader) sea

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *mara (“to spoil, to go foul [of food]” – compare with Tongan mā “breadfruit preserve, Western bread”, Maori mara “food preserved by steeping in water”, Samoan mala “soft [of food]” and Fijian mara “stench of a corpse”).^[1][2]

mar

1. preserve of fermented breadfruit stored in pits prior^[3]

• (Lewis) man

Inherited from Old Irish immar.

• IPA^(key): /maɾ/

mar (+ nominative with the definite article, + dative otherwise, triggers lenition)

1. as
2. like

mar (Tiree, Colonsay, Islay)

1. when (relative/non-interrogative)

   Synonyms: nuair, dar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *marъ.

• IPA^(key): /mâːr/

mȃr m inan (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)

1. (rare) diligence
2. (rare) eagerness, zeal

• marljivost
• marljiv

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *mVr-. Compare Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass, elapse”).

mar

1. to pass, to proceed

• “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

Inherited from Old Spanish mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/ [ˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mar

mar m or f same meaning (plural mares)

1. sea

   La República de Cuba está ubicada en el mar Caribe. ― The Republic of Cuba is located in the Caribbean sea.

   • 2008, Cécile Corbel, “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎^[7] (CD), performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique:

     En la mar hay una torre
     En la torre una ventana
     En la ventana hay una hija
     Que a los marineros ama.

     In the middle of the sea there's a tower
     In the tower there's a window
     At the window there's a maiden
     Who loves the sailors.

2. seaside
3. (selenology) lunar mare
4. (la mar) loads
5. (la mar de) really; hella

• Mar is usually treated as a masculine noun in formal prose and as a feminine noun by sailors or in poetry.

• See also Category:es:Seas.

• → Aymara: lamara
• → Classical Nahuatl: láma̱r
• → Papiamentu: lama, laman

• “mar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

mar

1. romanization of 𒈥 (mar)

mar

1. March; abbreviation of mars

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

From Germanic mari-. mardröm is unrelated.

mar

1. (rare) sea (large body of salt water)
2. (rare) shallow, muddy bay (of the sea)
   • Geddan trifves bland vass i vikar och marar. (Carl Ulrik Cederström, Fiskodling och Sveriges fiskerier, 1857, page 83.)
3. (rare) small body of water, marsh
4. (rare) meadowland (which used to be seabed)
5. (rare) low, sandy beach of the sea, flying sand field

• arm, ram

Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).

mar

1. snake

mar

1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

• mari (eastern dialect)

Inherited from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Italian mare.

mar m (plural mari)

1. sea

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

mar

1. only, solely

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

mar

1. but

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

mar c (plural marren)

1. but

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Inherited from Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari.

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)

1. lake

• “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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mar

1. thirst

• IPA^(key): /maɾ/

mar

1. star

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

• mor

Related to Persian مار (mâr)

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑɾ]
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m

1. (zoology) snake

mar f

1. (family) mother (specification)