different between garrot vs marrot

English

Etymology 1

French garrot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??t/

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

   The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. Alternative form of garrote

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Anagrams

• Rogart

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???r?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?r?t/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. club, truncheon

   Synonym: bastó

2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

Derived terms

• garrotar

Further reading

• “garrot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?o/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. tourniquet
2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
3. garrote
4. goldeneye (duck)
5. withers

Related terms

• garroter

Descendants

• Spanish: garrote

Further reading

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

English

Noun

marrot (plural marrots)

1. The razorbill.
2. The common guillemot.
3. The puffin.

Anagrams

• mortar

Finnish

Noun

marrot

1. Nominative plural form of marto.