English
Wikispecies
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.tɪn/, /ˈmɑː.tən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹ.tən/, [ˈmɑɹ.ʔn̩]
- Hyphenation: mar‧ten
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
- Homophones: martin, Martin (in some accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English martren, martryn, from Old French martrine (“marten fur”), from Old Dutch *marthrīn (“of marten fur”), from *marthar (“marten”). Displaced related Old English mearþ, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz.
Noun
marten (plural martens)
- Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes.
Derived terms
Translations
mammal
- Abkhaz: цыҕ (cəğ)
- Albanian: kunadhe (sq), shqarth (sq)
- Algonquin: wàbicèsè
- Arabic: دَلَق m (dalaq), خَزّ m (ḵazz), سَنْسَار m (sansār), فَنَك m (fanak) (obsolete), نِمْس m (nims, literally “mustelid”) (many distinguish not further)
- Armenian: կզաքիս (hy) (kzakʻis)
- Azerbaijani: dələ (az)
- Bashkir: һыуһар (hıwhar)
- Basque: lepahori
- Belarusian: куні́ца f (kuníca)
- Breton: mart (br)
- Bulgarian: бя́лка f (bjálka)
- Burmese: ဆတ်ခလောက် (my) sg or c (hcathka.lauk)
- Catalan: marta (ca) f, mart (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貂 (zh) (diāo)
- Czech: kuna (cs) f
- Danish: mår c
- Dutch: marter (nl) m
- Erzya: чинеме (čineme)
- Esperanto: marteso
- Estonian: nugis
- Faroese: márur m, mørður m
- Finnish: näätä (fi)
- French: marte (fr) f
- Friulian: mardar, martar
- Galician: marta (gl) f, fuíña (gl) f, lagaria f
- Georgian: კვერნა (ka) (ḳverna)
- German: Marder (de) m
- Greek: δενδροκούναβο (dendrokoúnavo)
- Ancient: ἴκτις f (íktis)
- Hebrew: דלק (he) (dalák)
- Hungarian: (beech marten and other species of the genus Martes) nyest (hu), (European pine marten) nyuszt (hu), (sable) coboly (hu)
- Icelandic: mörður (is) m
- Inari Sami: neeti
- Ingrian: kunitsa, näätä (obsolete)
- Irish: cat crainn (ga) m
- Italian: martora (it) f
- Japanese: テン (ja) (ten)
- Kalmyk: сувср (suvsr)
- Kazakh: сусар (susar)
- Kildin Sami: не̄дтҍ (niedt’)
- Komi-Permyak: тулан (tulan)
- Komi-Zyrian: тулан (tulan)
- Korean: 담비 (ko) (dambi)
- Ladin: meder
- Latin: martēs f
- Latvian: cauna f
- Lithuanian: kiaunė (lt) f
- Lule Sami: niehte
- Macedonian: куна f (kuna)
- Malay: samur
- Manx: kayt billey m
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: луй (luj)
- Western Mari: лый (lyj)
- Mi'kmaq: apistanewj anim
- Mongolian: суусар (mn) (suusar)
- Nanai: харсан (harsan)
- Narragansett: wappenagh
- Norman: martre f (Jersey)
- Northern Sami: neahti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mår m
- Nynorsk: mår m
- Occitan: marta (oc) f
- Ojibwe: waabizheshi, waabizheshiwag pl
- Old English: mearþ m
- Ottoman Turkish: صڭسار (sañsar)
- Persian: سمور (fa) (samur), خز (fa) (xaz)
- Pite Sami: marrta
- Polish: kuna (pl) f
- Portuguese: marta (pt) f
- Romanian: jder (ro) m
- Romansch: fiergna f, guis m
- Russian: куни́ца (ru) f (kuníca)
- Sardinian: schirri, isbirru, marta, martzu
- Scottish Gaelic: taghan
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: куна f
- Roman: kuna (sh) f, cibetka f
- Sicilian: màrtura f
- Skolt Sami: niẹʹtt
- Slovak: kuna (sk) f
- Slovene: kuna (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kuna f
- Upper Sorbian: kuna f
- Southern Altai: суузар (suuzar)
- Southern Sami: maarhte
- Spanish: marta (es) f
- Swedish: mård (sv) c
- Ter Sami: niette
- Turkish: sansar (tr)
- Tuvan: күзен (küzen)
- Udmurt: сёр (śor)
- Ukrainian: куни́ця f (kunýcja)
- Ume Sami: martta
- Welsh: bele
- West Frisian: marter
- Yiddish: מאַרדער m (marder)
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See also
Etymology 2
Noun
marten (plural martens)
- Archaic form of martin (the bird).
1829, Magazine of Natural History, volume 1, page 402:Towards the end of the month, swallows and house martens congregate, and are often seen resting on the ridges or sloping roofs of buildings.
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