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English

Etymology

From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Old French montaigne, from Vulgar Latin *mont?nea, feminine of *mont?neus (“mountainous”), alteration of Latin mont?nus, from m?ns (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan ????????????????? (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (whence English barrow); and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin m?ns (whence English mount).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ma?nt?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ma?nt?n/, /?ma?ntn?/ [?mã???(n)?n?], [?mæ????(n)?n?]
• Rhymes: -a?nt?n, -a?nt?n

Noun

mountain (countable and uncountable, plural mountains)

1. (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. [from 12th c.]

   Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

   We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
2. (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. [from 15th c.]

   He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.

   There's still a mountain of work to do.
3. (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
4. (uncountable, now historical) Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain. [from 18th c.]
   • 1785-1789, James Boswell, The English Experiment (diaries)

     Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately.

5. (countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
6. (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.

Usage notes

As with the names of rivers and lakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the generic word before or after the unique term. In the case of mountains, when the word precedes the unique term, mount is used: Mount Olympus, Mount Everest, Mount Tai; when the word follows the unique term, mountain is used: Crowfoot Mountain, Blue Mountain, Rugged Mountain. Generally speaking, such names will be adjectives or attributive nouns, but many foreign placenames formed with adjectives—as China's Huashan—are translated as though they were proper names: Mount Hua instead of Hua Mountain or Flourishing Mountain.

Mountain chains are never named with mount, only with mountains, a translated term, or a pluralized name.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Meronyms

Holonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Category:Mountains

Further reading

• mountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mountain in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

• mountain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mountain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• antimuon

Middle English

Noun

mountain

1. Alternative form of mountayne

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Verb

mars

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mar

Noun

mars

1. plural of mar

Anagrams

• ARMs, ASMR, ASRM, M.R.A.S., MRAs, MRSA, MSAR, Masr, RAMs, Rams, SARM, SRAM, arms, mas'r, rams, rasm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin martius.

Noun

mars m

1. March

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• march

Etymology

From English March.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mars/

Noun

mars (Bengali script ?????)

1. March

Synonyms

• choi•etja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ????? (mârs).

Noun

mars (definite accusative mars?, plural marslar)

1. (backgammon) gammon (a game in which one player removes all his checkers before his opponent can remove any, and counted as a double win)

Declension

Catalan

Noun

mars

1. plural of mar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rs/
• Hyphenation: mars
• Rhymes: -?rs

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mars m (plural marsen, diminutive marsje n)

1. march

Derived terms

• dagmars
• opmars

Related terms

• marcheren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: mars

Interjection

mars

1. march! (military command)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mars f (plural marsen, diminutive marsje n)

1. basket (usually worn on the back like a rucksack)
2. (nautical) the platform at the top of the lower mast of a sailing ship.

Related terms

• marskramer

Faroese

Noun

mars m

1. March (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: fo:Months)}

Finnish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from German marsch!, French marche!, or less likely, an irregular imperative form of marssia (compare seis < seistä).

Interjection

mars!

1. march! (military command)

French

Etymology

From Old French mars, from Latin (mensis) m?rtius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

mars m (plural mars)

1. March (month)

Derived terms

• arriver comme mars en carême
• grand mars
• ides de mars

Related terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) mois du calendrier grégorien; janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, août, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre ^{(Category: fr:Months)}

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: mas
• ? Persian: ????? (Mârs)

See also

• mois
• Mars

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mar?s/

  Rhymes: -ar?s

  Homophone: Mars

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin m?rti?, genitive singular of m?rtius (“relating to Mars”), from M?rs (“Mars, Roman god of war and agriculture”).

Noun

mars m (invariable, no plural)

1. March

Synonyms

• marsmánuður

Derived terms

• marsbyrjun
• marsmánuður

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Danish march (“march”), from French marche (“walk, march”), of Frankish origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“boundary, edge”).

Noun

mars m (genitive singular mars, nominative plural marsar)

1. march (musical piece such as is played while marching)
2. march (type of dance)

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mars, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *mark?n (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian ???? (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mars]
• Hyphenation: mars

Noun

mars (plural mars-mars, first-person possessive marsku, second-person possessive marsmu, third-person possessive marsnya)

1. march:
   1. a formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
   2. any song in the genre of music written for marching.

Further reading

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mars

Noun

mars

1. March

Middle English

Etymology

From Mars, borrowed from Latin Mars. So named because of its astrological association with the planet.

Noun

mars (uncountable)

1. (rare) The blackish, magnetic metal susceptible to rust; iron.
   • 1475, The Book of Quintessence.

     In þat wiyn or watir ?e quenche mars manye tymes.

Synonyms

• iren

See also

• Mars

References

• “Mars, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin m?rtius (“month of the god Mars”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rs/, [m??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mars m (indeclinable)

1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

References

• “mars” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin m?rtius (“month of the god Mars”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?rs/

Noun

mars m (indeclinable)

1. March (third month)

References

• “mars” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin m?rtius.

Noun

mars m (oblique plural mars, nominative singular mars, nominative plural mars)

1. March (month)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: marche
  • ? Middle English: March, Marche, Mersh, Mearch, Marz, Mars, Marce
    • English: March (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: Mairch
• Middle French: mars
  • French: mars
    • Haitian Creole: mas
    • ? Persian: ????? (Mârs)
• Norman: mar, mâr
• Walloon: måss

Etymology 2

see marc

Noun

mars m

1. oblique plural of marc
2. nominative singular of marc

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) marz

Etymology

From Latin m?rtius (“of March”).

Proper noun

mars m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) March

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?/

Noun

mars c

1. March (month)

Synonyms

• ugglemånad
• vårmånad

Derived terms

• marsmånad
• marsmånaden (definite form for mars)

Anagrams

• arms, rams

Tashelhit

Etymology

From Latin m?rtius.

Noun

mars

1. March (month)