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mar
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)
- (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
Derived terms
- marring
Translations
Noun
mar (plural mars)
- A blemish.
Derived terms
- marless
Etymology 2
See mere. Doublet of mare and mere.
Noun
mar (plural mars)
- A small lake.
Anagrams
- AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MRA, RAM, RMA, Ram, arm, ram
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar/
Adverb
mar
- (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
Conjunction
mar
- (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch maar.
Conjunction
mar
- 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)
- 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)
- sea (body of water)
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin mare.
Noun
mar f (plural mars)
- 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)
- sea
Derived terms
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish mar (“sea”).
Noun
mar
- sea
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?/
Noun
mar m (plural mares)
- sea
- swell
- (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
- sea
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m?r]
- Rhymes: -?r
Etymology 1
From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*mur?) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”).
Verb
mar
- (transitive) to bite (of animals)
- Synonyms: harap, tép
- (transitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)
- Synonym: roncsol
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
Noun
mar (uncountable)
- 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)
- (poetic) horse
Declension
or
Etymology 2
From Old Norse marr, from Proto-Germanic *mari.
Noun
mar m (genitive singular marar)
- (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)
- bruise, contusion
Declension
References
- “mar” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.
Interlingua
Noun
mar (plural mares)
- sea
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish immar.
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /?m????/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /?m?a??/
Conjunction
mar
- because
- Synonyms: óir, toisc go, arae, de bhrí go
- as
Derived terms
Preposition
mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)
- like
- 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
- (form of mare used in poetry and in names of some seas) sea
Derived terms
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese mar.
Noun
mar
- sea
- 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)
- 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
- a bush
- a shrub
- a boondock
- 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)
- (Sark) pool
Northern Kurdish
Noun
mar m
- snake
- marriage
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.
Noun
mar f (plural mars)
- sea (large body of water)
Derived terms
- liri de mar
Old French
Adjective
mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)
- Alternative form of mare
Adverb
mar
- Alternative form of mare
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?/
Noun
mar m
- 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.
- Mia irmana fremo?a treides de grado / ala ygreia de uigo u e o mar leuado / E miraremos las ondas.
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Mia irmana fremosa, treides comigo (facsimile)
Descendants
- Galician: mar
- Portuguese: mar
- Kabuverdianu: mar
- Kabuverdianu: már
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar/
Noun
mar f
- 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)
- sea
- (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)
- 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)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea
Noun
mar m (plural mars)
- (Vallader) sea
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- man
Etymology
From Old Irish immar
Preposition
mar
- as
- 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 ????)
- (rare) diligence
- (rare) eagerness, zeal
Declension
See also
- marljivost
- marljiv
Somali
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *mar-/*mir-/*mur-
Verb
mar
- 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)
- sea
- seaside
- (selenology) lunar mare
- (la mar) loads
- (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
- 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
- (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)
- sea
West Frisian
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adverb
mar
- only, solely
Further reading
- “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Conjunction
mar
- but
Further reading
- “mar (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
mar c (plural marren)
- 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)
- lake
Further reading
- “mar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Wolof
Noun
mar
- thirst
Zazaki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m??]
- Hyphenation: mar
Etymology
Related to Persian ???? (m?r)
Noun
mar m
- (zoology) snake
mar f
- (family) mother (specification)
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taint
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere).
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour
- (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation
- He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove.
- (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
- Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]
- 2006, Jim Chow, Stanford University. Computer Science Dept, Understanding data lifetime (page 33)
Translations
Verb
taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)
- (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
- (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- Meat soon taints in warm weather.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
Translations
Related terms
- tainture
Etymology 2
From Middle English taynt, aphetic form of attaynt, atteynt, from Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
Translations
Verb
taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)
- (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- 1624, Philip Massinger, The Parliament of Love
- Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint, and bravely.
- 1624, Philip Massinger, The Parliament of Love
- (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy.’
Noun
taint (plural taints)
- (US, slang) The perineum.
- 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), "Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet:
- Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint)
- 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), "Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet:
- Even her taint's raw?
- 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), "Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet:
- Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!
- 2017, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO:
- Thats right, Alex Jones is trying to sell you sloppy wet rags for your tait [sic]. And-- and when you are done wiping down the area between your genitals and anus with a glorified wet nap...
- And look-- look, this tactical taint wipe has demonstrated incredible results, hasn't it, Doctor?
- 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), "Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet:
Translations
Etymology 4
Contraction of it ain't.
Contraction
taint
- Alternative spelling of 'taint
References
- taint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- taint at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Nitta, Tanit, Titan, nitta, tinta, titan
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