mara-mara

See also: maramara

Basque

FWOTD – 14 January 2025

Etymology

Reduplication.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɾa maɾa/ [ma.ɾa ma.ɾa]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ra-ma‧ra

Ideophone

mara-mara

  1. flowing or falling gently but copiously (said of snow, sweat, tears...)
    • 1912, Domingo Agirre, Garoa‎[1], Durango: Florentino Elosu, page 158:
      ¡Ta nolakoak! Aitzari ere mara mara negar eragitekoak.
      Of course! The kind [of howling] that could make rocks cry copiously.

Further reading

  • “mara-mara”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “mara-mara”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.