different between blotch vs mark

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot +? botch.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bl?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

blotch (plural blotches)

1. An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
   • 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68,^[1]

     […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]

   • 1768, Laurence Sterne, Sermon VI in The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume 3, pp. 182-183,^[2]

     Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, entirely without spot or wrinkle,—at least, without great blotches or marks of anility.

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book II, Chapter 2,^[3]

     Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; […] it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches;

   • 1921, Wallace Stevens, Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in Poetry, Volume 19, No. 1,^[4]

     The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,

     Outside the gates of hammered serafin,

     Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.

2. An irregularly shaped area.
   • 1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 5,^[5]

     His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck.
3. (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
   • 1921, Warren G. Harding, Inaugural address, in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: from George Washington to Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1989,^[6]

     There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

4. Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
5. A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
6. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
7. (slang) Blotting paper.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

blotch (third-person singular simple present blotches, present participle blotching, simple past and past participle blotched)

1. (transitive) To mark with blotches.
   • 1770, Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258,^[7]

     Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of Bassan.

   • 1860, W. R. Tymms, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times, London: Day & Son, Chapter 40, p. 84,^[8]

     A straight-edge is placed upon the chalk lines, with the edge next the line slightly raised, and the brush, well filled with colour, drawn along it, just touching the wall, the pressure being never increased, and the brush refilled whenever it is near failing; but great care must be taken that it be not too full, as in that case it will be apt to blotch the line, or drop the colour upon the lower portions of the wall.

   • 1914, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 1, Chapter 4,^[9]

     Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.

   • 1918, D. H. Lawrence, Parliament Hill in the Evening in New Poems,^[10]

     The houses fade in a melt of mist

     Blotching the thick, soiled air

     With reddish places that still resist

     The Night’s slow care.

   • 1934, Sinclair Lewis, Work of Art, Chapter 1,^[11]

     His strong skin was of the Norse snow-fed pallor that no sun ever tanned, no adolescence ever blotched.
2. (intransitive) To develop blotches, to become blotchy.
   • 1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas, Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166,^[12]

     […] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs to.

Derived terms

• blotched (adjective)

English

Alternative forms

• marke (obsolete)
• merk (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??k/, (US) IPA^(key): /m??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophones: Mark, marque

Etymology 1

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *mark? (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mar?- (“edge, boundary, border”).

Cognate with Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”), German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”), Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”), Latin margo (“edge, margin”), Persian ???? (“limit, boundary”), Sanskrit ????? (mary?, “limit, mark, boundary”) and ????? (m?rga, “mark, section”). Compare march.

Noun

mark (plural marks)

1. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
   1. (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier. [9th–19th c.]
   2. (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence. [13th–18th c.]
   3. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. [from 14th c.]
      • 1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:

        I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.

   4. (archaic) A type of small region or principality. [from 18th c.]
      • 1954, J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers:

        There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.

   5. (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples. [from 19th c.]
2. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
   1. An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. [from 8th c.]
      • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice:

        depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.

   2. A characteristic feature. [from 16th c.]

      A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.

      • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

        there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.

   3. A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. [from 9th c.]
      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

        Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip […].

   4. A sign or brand on a person. [from 10th c.]
   5. A written character or sign. [from 10th c.]

   6. A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc. [from 11th c.]
      • 1876, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

        The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.

   7. (obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image. [14th–16th c.]
      • c.1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

        Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.

   8. A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral). [from 15th c.]

   9. A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total. [from 19th c.]

3. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
   1. A target for shooting at with a projectile. [from 13th c.]
      • , II.1:

        A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.

      • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, p.37:

        To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.

   2. An indication or sign used for reference or measurement. [from 14th c.]

   3. The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game. [from 18th c.]
   4. (obsolete) The female genitals. [16th–18th c.]
      • 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, I.4:

        A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.

      • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, 1985, p.68:

        her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his […].

   5. (Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. [from 19th c.]
   6. (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. [from 19th c.]
   7. A score for a sporting achievement. [from 20th c.]
   8. An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
      • 1871, Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report (vol.17, p.102)

        A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.

   9. (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures. [from 20th c.]

   10. Limit or standard of action or fact.

   11. Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
   12. (archaic) Preeminence; high position.

   13. (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
   14. (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
4. (heading) Attention.
   1. (archaic) Attention, notice. [from 15th c.]

   2. Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.) [from 16th c.]
      • 1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:

        in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.

   3. (obsolete) Regard; respect.

Synonyms

• (a particular design or make): Mk (abbreviation), Mk. (abbreviation)
• (attention, notice): heed, observance; see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Chinese:
  • ? Cantonese: ? (mak1)
• ? Japanese: ??? (m?ku)
• ? Korean: ?? (makeu)

Verb

mark (third-person singular simple present marks, present participle marking, simple past and past participle marked)

1. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869, Chapter 1, p. 10,^[1]

     […] if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

   • 1969, William Trevor, Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, Penguin, 1973, Chapter 11, p. 177,^[2]

     Her son wrote badly, as if fearful of marking the page at all.

2. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).

   Synonyms: blemish, scar, scratch, stain

   • 1717, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 3, Book 12, p. 229,^[3]

     Those Wheels returning ne’er shall mark the Plain;
3. (figuratively) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1976, Chapter 10, p. 104,^[4]

     The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.

   • 1998, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, New York: Seven Stories Press, p. 279,^[5]

     What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?
4. To create an indication of (a location).

5. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.

   Synonyms: demonstrate, indicate, manifest, reveal, show, signal

   • 1700, John Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale,” p. 479,^[6]

     And where the jolly Troop [of elves and fairies] had led the round

     The Grass unbidden rose, and mark’d the Ground:

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, London: T. Egerton, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 49,^[7]

     She gave her an answer which marked her contempt, and instantly left the room,

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans, Chapter 58, p. 528,^[8]

     […] the cloth was laid for him […] and a plate laid thereon to mark that the table was retained,

   • 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 6, p. 61,^[9]

     […] the lazy circling vultures marked the Hill of Execution, which was littered with human bones and scavenged by hyaenas.

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, Part 1, p. 16,^[10]

     Her forehead, lashed deep with lines, marked her fifty-six years.

6. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.

   Synonyms: display, show, write

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 219,^[11]

     […] it was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth Day I think, as well as my poor wooden Calendar would reckon; for I markt all upon the Post still;

   • 1875, Benjamin Farjeon, At the Sign of the Silver Flagon, New York: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 84,^[12]

     “What does the clock mark now?”

     “Eight minutes to seven.”

7. To create (a mark) on a surface.

   Synonyms: draw, trace

   • 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, Volume 2, “Maria,” p. 175,^[13]

     […] on opening it [the handkerchief], I saw an S mark’d in one of the corners.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, Book 3, Chapter 10, p. 220,^[14]

     I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it.

   • 1988, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, New York: HarperCollins, Chapter 6, p. 82,^[15]

     […] I was testing a stack of old whitewalls, dunking them in the water and marking a yellow chalk circle around each leak.

8. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.

   Synonyms: commemorate, solemnize

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 11, p. 316,^[16]

     It was only four thirty but Gerald was marking his guests’ arrival with a Pimm’s,

9. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 134,^[17]

     […] the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,

   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan, 1902, Chapter 5, p. 115,^[18]

     The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.

   • 1968, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2013, Chapter 1, p. 1,^[19]

     His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.

   • 2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House, Prologue,^[20]

     Enquiring about the movement of trains—even if you were a passenger on one—could mark you as a saboteur.

10. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.

    Synonyms: classify, mark out

    • 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 113,^[21]

      The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]

11. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.

    Synonyms: destine, mark out, target

    • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 1, p. 3,^[22]

      When a king, hath once markt for his hate, / A man inferior; […] / […] euermore, he rakes vp in his brest, / Brands of quicke anger;

    • 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, New York: Viking, Chapter 5, p. 230,^[23]

      […] I know now that humankind marks certain people for death.

12. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.

    Synonyms: represent, see

    • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1917, Chapter 16, p. 172,^[24]

      […] we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus.

    • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 3, p. 17,^[25]

      Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.

    • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straux, Giroux, p. 93,^[26]

      My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry.

13. To be typical or characteristic of (something).

    Synonyms: characterize, typify

    • 1818, Susan Ferrier, Marriage, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 3, Chapter 18, p. 264,^[27]

      […] he still retained that simple, unostentatious elegance, that marks the man of real fashion—

    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Chapter 9, p. 145,^[28]

      “Ah,” replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness which […] marked all his deportment,

    • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, New York: Modern Library, 1911, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 487,^[29]

      […] Cyril’s attitude to his mother was marked by a certain benevolent negligence

14. To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
    • 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: Hodgson, Canto 8, stanza 130, p. 313,^[30]

      Indeed the smoke was such they scarce could mark

      Their friends from foes,

    • 1943, Maurice Bowra, The Heritage of Symbolism, London: Macmillan, 1954, Chapter 1, p. 2,^[31]

      Despite their obvious differences these poets had a common view of life which marks them from their predecessors […]

    • 1983, Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver, New York: Dell, 1984, Chapter 24, p. 127,^[32]

      Each day was so like the day before, and Christmas Day, when it came, would not have anything to mark it from all the others.

15. (dated) To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.

    Synonyms: heed, listen to, look at, observe, watch

    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,^[33]

      More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before:

    • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,^[34]

      I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.

    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 37.37,^[35]

      Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

    • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 137,^[36]

      When they had passed out of the wood into the pasture-land beyond, Ruth once more turned to mark him.

    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: Henry Holt, Part 6, Chapter 2, p. 522,^[37]

      “When Wolsey came down, I said, mark him, he’s a sharp fellow. […] ”

16. (dated) To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.

    Synonyms: hear, note, notice, observe, perceive, see

    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, London: B. Motte, Volume 2, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 161,^[38]

      Some of them [the Animals] coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their Form.

    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, Chapter 53, p. 525,^[39]

      He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness, for he coloured directly and turned his head away.

    • 1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499,^[40]

      […] it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.

    • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965, Appendix A, pp. 347-348,^[41]

      Helm had a great horn, and soon it was marked that before he sallied forth he would blow a blast upon it that echoed in the Deep;

17. To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
    • 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 22, p. 268,^[42]

      I marked my man, standing on the catwalk, and waited to throw [my javelin] till he started to climb inboard before they rammed.

18. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).

    Synonyms: grade, score

19. To record that (someone) has a particular status.

20. (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
    • 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, Chapter 12, p. 116,^[43]

      Dan was to mark while the doctor and I played [billiards].

22. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
23. (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
24. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
25. (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-Germanic *mark? (“mark, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *mar?- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), German Mark (“a weight of silver, a coin”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight (usu. a pound) of silver or gold”).

Noun

mark (plural marks)

1. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
   • 1997, Bernard Scudder, translating ‘Egil's Saga’, in The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, page 91:

     As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.

2. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 42:

     George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 167:

     He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.

3. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of (West) Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
4. A coin worth one mark.

Synonyms

• (German currency): Deutschmark, Deutsche Mark, German mark

Translations

See also

• convertible mark
• Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark
• markka
• Reichsmark

Etymology 3

An alternate form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.

Verb

mark

1. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.

   Mark time, mark!

   Forward, mark!

Anagrams

• Karm

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch markt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mark/

Noun

mark (plural markte or marke)

1. market

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mark/, [?m????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse m?rk (“wilderness”), from Proto-Germanic *mark? (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (“border land, marches”).

Noun

mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite marker)

1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals)

   Synonym: ager

Inflection

Further reading

• “mark,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse m?rk, from Proto-Germanic *mark? (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (currency), originally the same word as the previous one.

Noun

mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite mark)

1. (historical) mark (unit of currency, in Denmark from the Middle Ages until 1875, in Germany and Finland until 2002)
2. (historical) mark (unit of weight, especially of precious metals, equivalent to half a pound or 8 ounces)

Inflection

Derived terms

• finmark
• D-mark
• rigsmark

Further reading

• “mark,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• mark on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Mark (møntenhed) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch marke, from Old Dutch [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rk/
• Hyphenation: mark
• Rhymes: -?rk

Noun

mark f (plural marken)

1. (chiefly historical) A march, a mark (border region).

Derived terms

• markgraaf
• markgravin

Estonian

Etymology 1

From German Marke.

Noun

mark (genitive margi, partitive marki)

1. mark (a sign or brand)
2. tally mark
3. stamp (postage stamp)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *mark?.

Noun

mark (genitive marga, partitive marka)

1. mark (currency)

Declension

Faroese

Noun

mark f (genitive singular markar, plural markir)

1. (kvæði) forest

   Synonyms: mørk, skógur

2. (in phrases) pasture

   Synonym: hagi

3. (biblical) field

   Synonym: bøur

Declension

Noun

mark n (genitive singular marks, plural mørk)

1. sign

   Synonym: merki

2. border, frontier

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?k/

Noun

mark m (plural marks)

1. mark (currency)

Further reading

• “mark” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mark, from Proto-Germanic *mark?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar?k/
• Rhymes: -ar?k

Noun

mark n (genitive singular marks, nominative plural mörk)

1. sign, mark
2. target, aim, mark
3. (sports) goal
4. (numismatics) mark

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• merki

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse maðkr

Alternative forms

• makk

Noun

mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)

1. a worm (invertebrate)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse m?rk

Noun

mark f or m (definite singular marka or marken, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)

1. land, ground, field

Derived terms

References

• “mark” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rk/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse m?rk.

Alternative forms

• mork (non-standard since 1938)

Noun

mark f (definite singular marka, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)

1. land, field
2. terrain
3. ground
4. (historical) march

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse m?rk.

Alternative forms

• mork (non-standard since 1938)

Noun

mark f (definite singular marka, indefinite plural merker or (currency) mark, definite plural merker)

1.  a unit of measure equivalent to 250 grams
2. (numismatics, historical) a mark
   1. any of various European monetary units, including in Finland (1861-1999) and Germany (1948-1999)
   2. (numismatics, historical) an old Norwegian coin
      1. (in the middle ages) a coin worth 8 øre
      2. (19th century) a coin worth 24 shillings or 1/5 taler

         Synonym: ort

3. (historical) a Norwegian unit used to measure the taxability of property

Usage notes

• The indefinite plural is usually merker, but in the sense of a unit of currency, mark might be used instead.

Derived terms

• austmark
• skyldmark
• vestmark

Etymology 3

From Old Norse maðkr.

Alternative forms

• makk

Noun

mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural markar, definite plural markane)

1. a worm (invertebrate)

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Old Norse mark n.

Noun

mark n (definite singular market, indefinite plural mark, definite plural marka)

1. a mark

Derived terms

• svalemark

Related terms

• marke

References

• “mark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• karm, kram

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse m?rk, from Proto-Germanic *mark?.

Noun

mark f

1. woodland
2. field

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: mark

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse m?rk, from Proto-Germanic *mark?, from Proto-Indo-European *mar?- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).

Pronunciation

• (singular)
  • IPA^(key): /mark/
• (plural)
  • IPA^(key): (gambling sense) /?mark?r/
  • IPA^(key): (other senses) /?mar?k?r/

Noun

mark c

1. (uncountable) ground (as opposed to the sky or the sea)

   Ha fast mark under fötterna - to be on terra firma (literally "to have firm ground under (one's) feet")

   Tillbaka på klassisk mark - back on classical ground

   På engelsk mark - on English soil

2. (countable, uncountable) ground, field

   Bonden ägde mycket mark - The farmer owned a lot of land

3. mark (currency)
4. (gambling) counter, marker

Declension

See also

• ta mark
• i skog och mark

Anagrams

• karm, kram

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mærk/, /mark/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse maðkr.

Noun

mark m (definite singular martjen, dative martjåm, definite plural marka or markan)

1. a worm (invertebrate)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse m?rk.

Noun

mark f (definite singular marka or markä, dative marken)

1. Forest, woodland; ground.

Derived terms

References