different between mar vs blotch

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??/, [m??], [m??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: mar

Etymology 1

From Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijan? (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian ??????? (mo?anal, “to forget, fail”).

Alternative forms

• marre (obsolete)

Verb

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

Derived terms

• marring

Translations

Noun

mar (plural mars)

1. A blemish.

Derived terms

• marless

Etymology 2

See mere. Doublet of mare and mere.

Noun

mar (plural mars)

1. A small lake.

Anagrams

• AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar/

Adverb

mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

Conjunction

mar

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch maar.

Conjunction

mar

1. but

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mar m (plural mars)

1. sea

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “mar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea (body of water)

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?mar/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma?/
• Homophones: ma, mà
• Rhymes: -a(?)
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m or f (plural mars)

1. sea

Derived terms

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish mar (“sea”).

Noun

mar

1. sea

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?/

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. swell

3. (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity

   Synonyms: monte, mundo

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.

Noun

mar

1. sea

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?r]
• Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*mur?) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”).

Verb

mar

2. (transitive) to bite (of animals)

   Synonyms: harap, tép

3. (transitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)

   Synonym: roncsol

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

Noun

mar (uncountable)

2. withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)

Declension

Derived terms

• marmagasság

References

Further reading

• (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?r/

  Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *marhaz.

Noun

mar m (genitive singular mars, nominative plural marar or marir)

1. (poetic) horse

Declension

or

Etymology 2

From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.

Noun

mar m (genitive singular marar)

1. (poetic) the sea

Declension

Etymology 3

First attested at the end of the 18th century. Related to merja (“to crush, bruise”).

Noun

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

1. bruise, contusion

Declension

References

• “mar” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

Interlingua

Noun

mar (plural mares)

1. sea

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish immar.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /?m????/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?m?a??/

Conjunction

mar

1. because

   Synonyms: óir, toisc go, arae, de bhrí go

2. as

Derived terms

Preposition

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. like
2. as

Synonyms

• amhail
• ar chuma
• ar nós
• cosúil le
• dála
• fearacht

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “immar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "mar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Noun

mar m

1. (form of mare used in poetry and in names of some seas) sea

Derived terms

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mar.

Noun

mar

1. sea
2. ocean

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (marra, “to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?r/
• Rhymes: -a?r

Verb

mar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawrien)

1. to go

Conjugation

• Note: Predominantly conjugated like a hollow root, but the original gemination surfaces prevocalically, i.e. in the plural imperfect as well as the third-person feminine and plural of the perfect.

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [m??r?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /m?ær?/
• Bender phonemes: {mar}

Noun

mar

1. a bush
2. a shrub
3. a boondock
4. a thicket

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Norman

Alternative forms

• mare (continental Normandy, Guernsey)
• mathe (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Sark) pool

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mar m

1. snake
2. marriage

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea (large body of water)

Derived terms

• liri de mar

Old French

Adjective

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. Alternative form of mare

Adverb

mar

1. Alternative form of mare

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?/

Noun

mar m

1. sea
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)

     Mia irmana fremo?a treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.

     Lovely sister, come willingly / To the church in Vigo, where the sea is up, / And we will gaze at the waves.

Descendants

• Galician: mar
• Portuguese: mar
  • Kabuverdianu: mar
  • Kabuverdianu: már

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar/

Noun

mar f

1. genitive plural of mara

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mar (“sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ma?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ma?/, [?mä?]
  • (Paulistano) IPA^(key): /?ma?/, /?ma?/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ma?/, /?ma?/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /?ma?/
    • Homophone: mal
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): /?ma?/
  • (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /?mah/
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. (figuratively) a multitude; a great amount or number of things

Derived terms

• gaivotas em terra, tempestade no mar - Seagulls inland, storm at sea.
• mar de rosas

Related terms

• maré
• mareiro
• marina
• marinha
• marinho
• marítimo

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: mar
• Kabuverdianu: már

Etymology 2

Adverb

mar (comparative mais mar superlative o mais mar)

1. Eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) mer

Etymology

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

Noun

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea

Noun

mar m (plural mars)

1. (Vallader) sea

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• man

Etymology

From Old Irish immar

Preposition

mar

1. as
2. like

Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

Derived terms

• ciamar
• mar eisimpleir
• mar seo
• mar sin
• mar eadh

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mar?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâ?r/

Noun

m?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (rare) diligence
2. (rare) eagerness, zeal

Declension

See also

• marljivost
• marljiv

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *mar-/*mir-/*mur-

Verb

mar

1. to pass, to proceed

References

• “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?/, [?ma?]
• Hyphenation: mar

Noun

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea
2. seaside
3. (selenology) lunar mare
4. (la mar) loads
5. (la mar de) really; hella

Usage notes

Mar is usually treated as a masculine noun in formal prose and as a feminine noun by sailors or in poetry.

Derived terms

Related terms

Hyponyms

• See also Category:es:Seas.

Descendants

• Aymara: lamara
• Classical Nahuatl: láma?r
• Papiamentu: lama, laman

Further reading

• “mar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

mar

1. March; Abbreviation of mars.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

Anagrams

• arm, ram

Torres Strait Creole

Noun

mar

1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

Synonyms

• mari (eastern dialect)

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Compare Italian mare.

Noun

mar m (plural mari)

1. sea

West Frisian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

mar

1. only, solely

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Conjunction

mar

1. but

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun

mar c (plural marren)

1. but

Further reading

• “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari,

Noun

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)

1. lake

Further reading

• “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Wolof

Noun

mar

1. thirst

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??]
• Hyphenation: mar

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (m?r)

Noun

mar m

1. (zoology) snake

mar f

1. (family) mother (specification)

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)