mare

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /meː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /meə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /miə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /meɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /mɜː(ɹ)/
• Homophones: mere (cheer–chair merger), myrrh (fair–fur merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

mare (plural mares)

2. An adult female horse.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

3. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
   • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:

     The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?

• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.

• (British) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

mare (plural mares)

2. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

• daymare
• nightmare

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of maar and mere (“a body of standing water”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɑɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹi

mare (plural maria)

2. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
3. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

   Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

See mayor.

mare (plural mares)

1. Obsolete form of mayor.
2. Obsolete form of mair.

• mera, Amer., rame, mear, Erma, Maer, Mera, Ream, amer., Arem, arme, ramé, ream

• IPA^(key): /maˈre/ [mʌˈɾɛ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧re

maré f (singulative maréyta m or mareytá f)

1. family, relationship

maré

1. (Northern Afar, intransitive) live
2. (Northern Afar, intransitive) continue

Conjugation of mare (type II verb)
		1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular		1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
				m	f
perfective	V-affirmative	maréh	martéh	maréh	martéh	marréh	marteeníh	mareeníh
	N-affirmative	maré	marté	maré	marté	marré	martén	marén
	negative	mámarinniyo	mámarinnito	mámarinna	mámarinna	mámarinnino	mámarinniton	mámarinnon
imperfective	V-affirmative	maráh	martáh	maráh	martáh	marráh	martaanáh	maraanáh
	N-affirmative	mará	martá	mará	martá	marrá	martán	marán
	negative	mámara	mámarta	mámara	mámarta	mámarra	mámartan	mámaran
prospective	V-affirmative	maréliyoh maréyyoh	marélitoh maréttoh	maréleh	maréleh	marélinoh marénnoh	marélitoonuh maréttoonuh	maréloonuh
	N-affirmative	maréliyo maréyyo	marélito marétto	maréle	maréle	marélino marénno	maréliton marétton	marélon
conjunctive I	V-affirmative	máruh	mártuh	máruh	mártuh	máruh	martóonuh	maróonuh
	N-affirmative	máru	mártu	máru	mártu	máru	martón	marón
	negative	maré wáyuh	maré wáytuh	maré wáyuh	maré wáytuh	maré wáynuh	maré waytóonuh	maré wóonuh
conjunctive II	V-affirmative	maránkeh	martánkeh	maránkeh	martánkeh	marránkeh	martaanánkeh	maraanánkeh
	N-affirmative	maránke	martánke	maránke	martánke	marránke	martaanánke	maraanánke
	negative	maré wáankeh	maré waytánkeh	maré wáankeh	maré waytánkeh	maré waynánkeh	maré waytaanánkeh	maré wáankeh
jussive	affirmative	máray	mártay	máray	mártay	máray	martóonay	maróonay
	negative	maré wáay	maré wáytay	maré wáay	maré wáytay	maré wáynay	maré waytóonay	maré wóonay
past conditional	affirmative	marinniyóy	marinnitóy	marinnáy	marinnáy	marinninóy	marinnitoonúy	marinnoonúy
	negative	maré wanniyóy	maré wannitóy	maré wannáy	maré wannáy	maré wanninóy	maré wannitoonúy	maré wanninoonúy
present conditional I	affirmative	marék	marték	marék	marték	marrék	marteeník	mareeník
	negative	maré wéek	maré wayték	maré wéek	maré wayték	maré waynék	maré wayteeník	maré weeník
		singular	plural			singular	plural
consultative	affirmative	maróo	marróo	imperative	affirmative	már	mára
	negative	mamaróo	mamarróo		negative	mámarin	mámarina
-h converb	-i form	-k converb	-in(n)uh converb	-innuk converb	infinitive	indefinite participle
						V-focus	N-focus
márah	mári	márak	marínnuh	marínnuk	maríyya	marináanih	marináan
Compound tenses past perfect affirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé present perfect affirmative perfective + imperfective of én future perfect affirmative perfective + prospective of sugé past progressive -k converb + imperfective of én or sugé present progressive affirmative imperfect + imperfective of én future progressive -k converb + prospective of sugé immediate future affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée imperfect potential I affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké imperfect potential II affirmative imperfective + -m + takké negative maré + imperfective of wée + -m + takké perfect potential affirmative perfective + -m + takké negative maré + perfective of wée + -m + takké present conditional II affirmative imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék negative maré + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék perfect conditional affirmative perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k negative perfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k irrealis maré + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

• mára (“people”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “mare”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• marë, marulë

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

mare f (definite marja)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. strawberry tree fruit

• mareshtë

mare

1. alternative form of mari

• Hyphenation: ma‧re
• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈma.ɾe]

máre

1. misspelling of mari

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre, Italian madre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈma.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -aɾe

mare f (plural mares)

1. mother

   mare subrogada ― surrogate mother

2. uterus (of an animal)

   Synonym: úter

3. (by analogy) main course of a river or canal; channel
4. (Mallorca, playground games) home

• “mare”, 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
• “mare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• mari

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ma.re/

mare m

1. sea

• “mare” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Old Norse mara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɑ/

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareridt n

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

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From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī (“story”).

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. (Belgium, archaic) message, report, story

   Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal

2. (archaic) rumor

   Synonym: gerucht

• vermaren

Probably from Medieval Latin mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of Maar and Meer.

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
2. (Belgium) nightmare
3. witch

• nachtmare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of maren

• arme, rame

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/ ~ /mɑʁ/

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mare f (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

• pavé dans la mare

• “mare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmarə/ [ˈma.rə]
• Syllabification: ma‧re

marê (plural mare-mare)

1. (planetology) mare (a large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon)

• maria

• “mare” 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 mare.

mare

1. sea
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

• alto mare

From Latin māter.

mare f

1. mother

• mama

• mar (apocopic)

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: mà‧re

mare m (plural mari)

1. sea

• oceano (“ocean”)

• mare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• mare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Mera, arme, erma, mera, rame, rema

mare

1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.re]

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.^[1]

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

1. sea
   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum, (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis):

     Neptunum regnatorem marum

     Neptune, ruler of the seas

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.1:

     [facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.

     In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.

   • 13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum):

     Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.

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   • 1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto:

     a marī usque ad mare

     from sea to sea

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• The ablative singular can be marī or mare.
• The genitive plural form marium, although regularly formed for an i-stem noun, is not attested in the corpus of classical texts. Marum is found only once, in a line from Gnaeus Naevius.
• The 5th/6th-century grammarian Priscian (Institutiones 7) says it is rarely used in the genitive plural, noting Caesar's use of maribus too. Similarly, the 4th-century grammarian Charisius claims it lacks both a genitive plural *marium and a *maribus form (but see the quotation from Julius Caesar above):

  "maria" tamen quamvis dicantur pluraliter, attamen nec "marium" nec "maribus" dicemus
  — although maria can be said in the plural, nevertheless we won't say marium nor maribus (Ars 1.11).

• pontus

• bimaris
• Hibēricum Mare
• marīnus
• maritimus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mare

1. ablative singular of mās

• mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• mera

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

mâre

1. famous, famed
2. honoured, prestigious
3. well-known

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją, related to Etymology 1 above.

mâre f

1. fame, famousness
2. rumour
3. message

• Dutch: maar, mare
• Limburgish: maer

From Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā.

māre f or m

1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)

• Dutch: maar
• Limburgish: maar

• “mare (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarə/

mare ?

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

From Old French mare.

mare f (plural mares)

1. (continental, Guernsey) pool
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[4], page 534:

     Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.

     If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

From Old Norse mara.

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareritt (“nightmare”)

• “mare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma

From Old Norse mara f.

• Mara, mara, maru, muru, murru (dialectal)

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• marekors (“pentagram”)
• marekvist (“a witch's broom”)
• mareritt (“nightmare”)
• marespjeld
• (probably derived) innmari

From Old Norse merja (“to crush”).

• mara (split or a-infinitive)

mare (present tense marar, past tense mara, past participle mara, passive infinitive marast, present participle marande, imperative mare/mar)

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• “mare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma, rame, rema

From Proto-West Germanic *marā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.re/

mare f (nominative plural maran)

1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• *nihtmare

• English: mare

• mar

From Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit”).

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

mare

1. evilly; badly

mare

1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

mare

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

mare

1. inflection of marar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/

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• Rhymes: -are

Most likely inherited from Latin maiōrem,^[1] accusative singular of Latin maior, through a Common Romanian intermediate *maure, akin to Dalmatian maur. The shift from /au/ to /a/ is caused by an uncommon syncope. Compare Aromanian mari, Megleno-Romanian mari, and the aforementioned Dalmatian maur. See also Portuguese mor, Logudorese mere and Campidanese meri.^[2]

For other examples of this syncope in particular, see Sardinian laru (dialectal), from Latin laurus; Friulian fari, from Latin faber (unlike Ladin faure); et cetera.

An alternative, less likely theory proposes a derivation from Latin marem (“male”), with a semantic shift from "male" to "large", on an idiomatic basis (i.e. assuming that the expression "s-a făcut mare", meaning "[ 3rd-pers. sg. ] grew up" [literally "made themselves big"] initially referred exclusively to boys becoming men, and that it shifted over time to refer more broadly to physical growth, and by extension, being large). Other theories include a derivation from its homonym mare (meaning sea), and a substrate origin (either Proto-Albanian or Thraco-Dacian).

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   Antonym: mic

   O mare mare. ― A big sea.

2. great, mighty

   Un om mare. ― A great man.

• mări
• mărime
• mărinimos

• măreț

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mare f (plural mări)

1. sea

   Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.

   When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.

• marin

• mari (“Campidanese”)

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

mare m (plural mares)

1. sea

mare

1. boy

• mars

Clipping of kumare, earlier variant of komadre.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈmaː.ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: ma‧re

mare (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒ) (slang)

1. close female friend; sister

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan

   Coordinate terms: brad, pare, tol

   Ano'ng tsika, mare?

   What's the buzz, sister?

• “mare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[5], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Use hota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/

mare

1. alternative form of mari (“stone”)

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

• (Venetian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/

From Latin mater.

mare f (invariable)

1. mother

From Latin mare.

mare

1. sea

Borrowed from Arabic مارا.

mare m or f

1. marriage