# marrar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Modification of earlier marrir (“to sadden”) < Frankish *marʀijan < Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”). Influenced in form by errar (“to miss”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [məˈra]
* IPA: (Valencia) [maˈraɾ]

### Verb

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marrí, past participle marrat)
* (intransitive) to detour
* (transitive) to miss, to take a wrong turn

#### Derived terms

* marrada

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈraɾ/

### Verb

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marrei, past participle marrado)
* (transitive) to lack
** 1807, anonymous author, 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
** 1846, Vicente Turnes, Aos augustos desposorios de Isabel II:Decote acarón da casa, Vemos cousas á ó revés; E non marran enxangadas Que nos fan doer as siés.Daily by our house We see thing upside down And there's no lack of jams that make our temples hurt
* (intransitive) to miss, fail
** 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC:meteu mão a espada, e en coydandoo de matar, marroo e doulle ẽno cavaloHe draw the sword, and while trying to kill him, he missed and hit the horse
** 1436, Xesús Ferro Couselo, editor, 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 marrafrom 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

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* marra (“lack, shortage”)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “marrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “marrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marrar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marrar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “marrar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* marrir (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marzijaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈraɾ/ [maˈraɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ma‧rrar

### Verb

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marré, past participle marrado)
* (transitive) to miss
* (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Related terms

* de marras

#### See also

* extrañar

### Further reading

* “marrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10