mart

• (General American) enPR: märt, IPA^(key): /mɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

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From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.

mart (plural marts)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, usually only in combination) A shop, a store, a market.

   FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart

2. A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.

   In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 87:

     Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, / And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: / Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; / A man is Maſter of his libertie:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 23:3:

     And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC, page 38:

     In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart, / So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied, / As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill / Increaſing, London?

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 202:

     The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14:

     The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.

3. (obsolete) A bargain.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 217, column 2:

     Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, / And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

1. (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.

2. (obsolete) To traffic.

From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

mart (plural marts)

1. (obsolete) Battle; contest.

Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

mart (uncountable)

1. (historical) Marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Scottish English, from Middle English [Term?], from a Scottish Gaelic root.

mart (plural marts)

1. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
2. (by extension, the animal or its meat) Salt beef.

• tarm, armt., RATM, matr-, tram

Internationalism; from Russian март (mart).

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mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. (North Azerbaijani) March

   Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) مارس (mars)

• marta

Of Germanic origin, possibly through Old French martre, from Proto-West Germanic *marþ (“marten”).

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

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

mart m (plural marts)

1. A marten, especially the European pine marten (Martes martes).

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

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

mart (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. March

   Synonym: saban ayı

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “mart”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Borrowed from Russian март (mart), from Latin Martius

• IPA^(key): /mɑrt/

mart (definite accusative martı, uncountable)

1. (literary) March

   Synonyms: Baba Marta ay, Baba Marta

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “март”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 326
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “mart”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 114

mar +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrt]

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• Hyphenation: mart

mart

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mar

mart

1. past participle of mar

From Middle Irish mart (“ox carcass”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mˠaɾˠtˠ/^[2]

mart m (genitive singular mairt, nominative plural mairt)

1. heifer or bullock carcass
2. heifer or bullock fattened for slaughter
3. (figurative) beefy person

• mairteoil f (“beef”)
• martán m (“small ox”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “mart”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 718; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mart”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /mart/
• Homophone: mard

mart

1. construct form of mara

mart

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of margr

From Dutch maart.

mart

1. March

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

mart m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of martie

From Old Irish mart (“ox, cow”).

• IPA^(key): /marˠʃt̪/

mart m (genitive singular mairt, plural mairt)

1. cow (due for or prepared for slaughter)
2. (Argyll) cow (any)

• bò

• mairtfheòil (“beef”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mart”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /mârt/

mȁrt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ма̏рт)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) March

   Synonym: (Croatia) òžujak

• mȁrtovskī

mart (Cyrillic spelling март)

1. March

• (month): Previous: febräl. Next: äpril

From Ottoman Turkish مارت, from Byzantine Greek Μᾱ́ρτιος (Mā́rtios), from Latin martius.

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mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. March

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

mart (definite accusative marty, plural martlar)

1. March

Borrowed from Russian март (mart), from Latin mārtius.

mart (plural martlar)

1. March