mar

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mar

From Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“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 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”).

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.
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Prospero: […] huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, OCLC 767532218:

     Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 218:

     Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.

   • 1826, Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes. Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings, volume IV, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, New York, N.Y.: Published by N. Bangs and J. Emory, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 13, Crosby-Street, Jeremiah 18:3–4, page 53:

     […] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

   • 1856, Jabez Burns, “The Heralds of Mercy”, in Cyclopedia of Sermons: Containing Sketches of Sermons on the Parables and Miracles of Christ, on Christian Missions, on Scripture Characters and Incidents; on Subjects Appropriate for the Sick Room, Family Reading and Village Worship and some Special Occasions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, OCLC 692530910, page 253:

     Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.

   • 2000, Vanessa Gunther, “The Indian Giver”, in Gordon Morris Bakken, editor, Law in the Western United States (Legal History of North America; 6), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 271:

     The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.

   • 2007, Zeno W. Wicks, Jr.; Frank N. Jones; S. Peter Pappas; Douglas A. Wicks, Organic Coatings: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, →ISBN, pages 85 and 210:

     [page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.

   • 2018 July 10, “Cave rescue: Final push under way in Thailand”, in bbc.com‎, BBC, retrieved 2018-07-10:

     They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more. If confirmed, one child and an adult remain to be rescued, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver's death.

• marring

mar (plural mars)

1. A blemish.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.

• marless

See mere.

mar (plural mars)

1. A small lake.

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

mar

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar

mar

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of maar

mar m (plural mars)

1. sea

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

From Latin mare.

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea (body of water)

From Latin mare.

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea

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

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

mar m or f (plural mars)

1. sea

From Spanish mar (“sea”).

mar

1. sea

From Old Portuguese mar, from Latin mare.

mar m (plural mares)

1. sea
2. (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity

From Portuguese mar. Cognates with Kabuverdianu már.

mar

1. sea

From Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”). [1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒr]

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mar

1. (transitive) to bite

• marakodik
• marás
• marat
• mardos
• maró

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• aki kapja, marja

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

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

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

1. (poetic) horse

or

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

mar m (genitive singular marar)

1. (poetic) the sea

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

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)

1. bruise, contusion

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

mar (plural mares)

1. sea

From Old Irish immar.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠɑɾˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠaɾˠ/

mar

1. because
2. as

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. like
2. as

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

• “immar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "mar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

mar m

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

From Portuguese mar.

mar

1. sea
2. ocean

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

mar m

1. snake
2. marriage

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

• IPA^(key): /maːr/

mar (imperfect imur)

1. go

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

From Old French mare.

mar f (plural mars)

1. (Sark) pool

From Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

mar f (plural mars)

1. sea (large body of water)

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. Alternative form of mare

mar

1. Alternative form of mare

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/

mar m

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

     Mia irmana fremoſa 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.

• Galician: mar
• Portuguese: mar
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: mar
  • Kabuverdianu: már

• IPA^(key): /mar/

mar

1. genitive plural of mara

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /maɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maʁ/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [maɹ], [maɾ]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [maɻ], [maɾ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): [maɻ]
    • Homophone: mal
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): [maχ]
  • (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [mah]
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m (plural mares)

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

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

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

mar (comparative mais mar superlative o mais mar)

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

• (Puter) mer

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

mar f (plural mars)

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

mar m (plural mars)

1. (Vallader) sea

• man

mar

1. as
2. like

• Lenites the following word.

• mar eisimpleir
• mar seo
• mar sin

From Proto-Slavic *marъ.

• IPA^(key): /mâːr/

mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)

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

• marljivost
• marljiv

mar

1. to pass, to proceed

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ/
• Hyphenation: mar

mar m or f (plural mares)

1. sea
   • 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎ (CD), Brittany: Keltia Musique, performed by Cécile Corbel:

     En la mar hay una torre
     En la torre una ventana
     En la ventana hay una hija
     Que a los marineros ama.

     In the middle of the sea there's a tower
     In the tower there's window
     At the window there's a maiden
     Who loves the sailors.

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

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

• Aymara: lamara
• Nahuatl: láma̱r
• Papiamentu: lama, laman

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

mar

1. March; Abbreviation of mars.

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

• ram, arm

mar

1. (western dialect) a person's shadow

• mari (eastern dialect)

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

mar m (plural mari)

1. sea

mar

1. only, solely

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

mar

1. but

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

mar c (plural marren)

1. but

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

From Old Frisian mere, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)

1. lake

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑɾ]
• Hyphenation: mar

Related to Persian مار‎ (mār)

mar m

1. (zoology) snake

mar f

1. (family) mother (specification)