different between mare vs mair

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English m?ere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-Germanic *marhij? (“female horse”) (compare Scots mere, meir, mear (“mare”), North Frisian mar (“mare, horse”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), Danish mær (“mare”), Swedish märr (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), German Mähre (“decrepit old horse”)), from *marhaz (“horse”) (compare Old English mearh).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???/
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

Noun

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
2. (Britain, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.

Antonyms

• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

Coordinate terms

• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *mar?, from Proto-Germanic *mar? (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?(?)?/

Noun

mare (plural mares)

1. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
2. (Britain, colloquial) (Clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

Derived terms

• daymare
• nightmare

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???e?/, /?me??i/, /?m???i/

Noun

mare (plural maria)

1. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

Translations

Anagrams

• Amer., Arem, Erma, Ream, amer., mear, rame, ramé, ream

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???e/

Noun

maré f 

1. link, tie, bond

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• marë, marulë

Etymology

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin marum (“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

Noun

mare f (definite singular marja)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. strawberry tree fruit

Derived terms

• mareshtë

Aromanian

Adjective

mare

1. Alternative form of mari

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin m?ter, m?trem, from Proto-Italic *m?t?r, from Proto-Indo-European *méh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.?e/
• Rhymes: -a?e

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

1. mother

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare m

1. sea

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

Noun

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. incubus, succubus

Declension

Related terms

• mareridt n

References

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch m?ri, from Proto-West Germanic *m?r? (“story”).

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. (archaic) message, report, story

   Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal

2. (archaic) rumor

   Synonym: gerucht

Related terms

• vermaren

Etymology 2

Probably from Medieval Latin mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Related to German Maar.

Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch m?re (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *mar?, from Proto-Germanic *mar?.

Noun

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
2. nightmare
3. witch

Derived terms

• nachtmare

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

Anagrams

• arme, rame

French

Etymology

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr (“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from the Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

Derived terms

• pavé dans la mare

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marê (first-person possessive mareku, second-person possessive maremu, third-person possessive marenya)

1. (astronomy, planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

Further reading

• “mare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Istriot

Etymology 1

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare

1. sea
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

Derived terms

• alto mare

Etymology 2

From Latin m?ter.

Noun

mare f

1. mother

See also

• mama

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Noun

mare m (plural mari)

1. sea

Related terms

See also

• oceano (“ocean”)

Anagrams

• arme
• erma
• mera
• rame
• rema

Japanese

Romanization

mare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.re/, [?mä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.re/, [?m????]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

1. sea

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• The ablative singular can be mar? or mare.
• The genitive plural form *marium, although regularly formed for an i-stem noun, is not attested in the corpus of classical texts. Marum is found only once, in a line from Gnaeus Naevius.
• The 5th/6th-century grammarian Priscian (Institutiones 7) says it is rarely used in the genitive plural, noting Caesar's use of maribus too. Similarly, the 4th-century grammarian Charisius claims it lacks both a genitive plural *marium and a *maribus form (but see the quotation from Julius Caesar above):

  "maria" tamen quamvis dicantur pluraliter, attamen nec "marium" nec "maribus" dicemus
  — although maria can be said in the plural, nevertheless we won't say marium nor maribus (Ars 1.11).

Synonyms

• pontus

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• bimaris
• Hib?ricum Mare
• mar?nus
• maritimus

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

mare

1. ablative singular of m?s

References

• mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• mera

Marau

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *m?ri, from Proto-West Germanic *m?r?.

Adjective

mâre

1. famous, famed
2. honoured, prestigious
3. well-known

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch m?ri, from Proto-Germanic *m?rij?, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

mâre f

1. fame, famousness
2. rumour
3. message

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maar, mare
• Limburgish: maer

Etymology 3

From Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *mar?.

Noun

m?re ?

1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maar
• Limburgish: maar

Further reading

• “mare (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mare (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mare (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mare (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page III

Munggui

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mar?/

Noun

mare

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

Norman

Alternative forms

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mare f (plural mares)

1. (France, Guernsey) pool

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Noun

mare

1. saliva

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

Noun

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare

Derived terms

• mareritt (“nightmare”)

References

• “mare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arme, armé, erma

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mara f.

Alternative forms

• Mara, mara, maru, muru (obsolete forms)

Noun

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare

Derived terms

• mareritt (“nightmare”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse merja (“to crush”).

Alternative forms

• mara (split or a-infinitive)

Verb

mare (present tense marar, past tense mara, past participle mara, passive infinitive marast, present participle marande, imperative mar)

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References

• “mare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arme, armé, erma, rame, rema

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mar?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.re/

Noun

mare f (nominative plural maran)

1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

Declension

Derived terms

• *nihtmare

Descendants

• English: mare

Old French

Alternative forms

• mar

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit”)

Adjective

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

Adverb

mare

1. evilly; badly

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

mare

1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

Papuma

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese

Verb

mare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of marar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of marar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of marar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of marar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Etymology 1

Several theories exist. One possibility is Latin mai?rem, masculine and feminine accusative singular of mai?r (“bigger”), irregularly clipped before the [j] ? [d??] sound change (the regular form would be *m?joare). Compare also Dalmatian maur (“large”). Another proposed etymology is Latin marem, accusative of m?s (“male, man”) (however, the reason for the shift in meaning or the exact semantic development is uncertain; it may be because men are generally larger than women, or from a crossing with magnus, or more likely from use in idiomatic expressions (with equivalents found in many languages) such as s-a f?cut mare, which can mean "he has grown up/grown older/become a man or adult", and this may have been eventually extended to mean "he/she has grown bigger", with the sense of the word shifting from "man/adult" to "big"). Less likely is the influence from mare (“sea”). Also found in Aromanian as mari (“big, large”).

Adjective

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   Antonym: mic

2. great, mighty

Inflection

Derived terms

• m?ri
• m?rime
• m?rinimos

Related terms

• m?re?

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mare f (plural m?ri)

1. sea

Declension

Related terms

• marin

References

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• mari (campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

Noun

mare m (plural mares)

1. sea

Sonsorolese

Noun

mare

1. boy

Tahitian

Noun

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Usage notes

Use hota.

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Noun

mare

1. saliva

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin m?ter, m?trem. Compare Italian madre

Noun

mare f (invariable)

1. mother

See also

• pare

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????.

Noun

mare ?

1. marriage

English

Etymology

From Middle English mair, mare, from Old English m?ra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Geordie) IPA^(key): /m??/

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Anagrams

• Amir, Irma, Mari, Mira, RIMA, amir, raim, rami, rima

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /m????/ (as if spelled moir)

Verb

mair (present analytic maireann, future analytic mairfidh, verbal noun maireachtáil, past participle mairthe)

1. live, remain, survive

2. last (“endure, hold out, continue”)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 199:

     m???? n w?n d?? kai??š el?.

     conventional orthography: Mairfidh an mhóin dúinn coicís eile.

     The turf will last us another fortnight.

Conjugation

Alternative verbal nouns: maireachtaint, mairstean

Derived terms

• maireachtáil (“living (noun)”)
• go maire tú an lá (“happy birthday”)

Mutation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mér, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós.

Noun

mair f (genitive singular mair, plural meir)

1. (anatomy) finger, digit
2. prong
3. key (of piano)
4. hand (of clock)
5. tributary (of river)

Derived terms

Mutation

Occitan

Noun

mair f (plural mairs)

1. (Gascony) mother
2. (Gascony) riverbed

References

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r/

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English mare, from Old English m?ra (compare English more), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. bigger, greater

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. more

Derived terms

• mair by taiken
• mair oot ower
• the mair

Related terms

• mae

Etymology 2

From Middle English meyr, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (archaic) mayor

Derived terms

• mair o fee
• mairship
• shirra-mair

Etymology 3

From Old English m?r.

Alternative forms

• muir

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (South Scots) moor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Verb

mair (past mhair, future mairidh, verbal noun mairsinn or maireann or maireachdainn, past participle mairte)

1. last, continue

Synonyms

• seas

Derived terms

• maireannach
• nach maireann