marrar

14th century. From West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”): compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan), German merren.[1]

• IPA^(key): /maˈraɾ/

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marrei, past participle marrado)

1. (transitive) to lack
   • 1807, anonymous, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.

     wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else

2. to miss, to fail
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: CSIC:

     meteu mão a espada, e en coydandoo de matar, marroo e doulle ẽno cavalo

     He draw the sword, and while trying to kill him, he missed and hit the horse

   • 1436, Xesús Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 404:

     do dia que a dar feita e posta ena ágoa, que seja vista ata triinta dias primeiros sigentes por los ditos ofiçiáas se algua cousa en ela marra

     from the day [the ship] is finished and launched into the water, it should be verified by the aforementioned officials for as much as the thirty following days to see if something fails

• marra (“lack, shortage”)

• “marrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “marr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “marrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “marrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “marrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marré, past participle marrado)

1. to miss

• extrañar