# mare
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).
See also 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”)), Old English mearh.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɛə/
* (General American) IPA: /mɛɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /meː/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /meə/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /miə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /meɹ/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /mɜː(ɹ)/
* Homophones: mere (cheer–chair merger), myrrh (fair–fur merger)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

#### Noun

mare (plural mares)
* An adult female horse.
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
* (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
** 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?

##### 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.

##### Derived terms

* brood mare
* flying mare
* mare's leg
* mare's milk
* mare's nest
* mare's tail
* mare's teat
* ride the three-legged mare
* shanks' mare
* stud mare
* the grey mare is the better horse
* three-legged mare
* Three-legged mare
* two-legged mare
* wooden mare

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.
Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

#### Pronunciation

* (British) IPA: /mɛə/
* (US) IPA: /mɛɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

#### Noun

mare (plural mares)
* (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.
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
    I'm having a complete mare today.

##### Derived terms

* daymare
* nightmare

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɑɹ.i/
* Rhymes: -ɑɹi

#### Noun

mare (plural maria)
* (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
* (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
    Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

See mayor.

#### Noun

mare (plural mares)
* Obsolete form of mayor.
* Obsolete form of mair.

### Anagrams

* mera, Amer., rame, mear, Erma, Maer, Mera, Ream, amer., Arem, arme, ramé, ream

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈre/ [mʌˈɾɛ]
* Hyphenation: ma‧re

### Noun

maré f (singulative maréyta m or mareytá f)
* family, relationship

#### Declension

absolutive
maré
predicative
maré
subjective
maré
genitive
maré
Postpositioned forms
l-case
marél
k-case
marék
t-case
marét
h-case
maréh :

### Verb

maré
* (Northern Afar, intransitive) live
* (Northern Afar, intransitive) continue

#### Related terms

* mára (“people”)

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “mare”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, 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 marja)
* strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
* strawberry tree fruit

#### Derived terms

* mareshtë

## Aromanian
### Adjective

mare
* Alternative form of mari

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ma‧re
* IPA: /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈma.ɾe]

### Verb

máre
* Misspelling of mari.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre, Italian madre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈma.ɾe]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾe

### Noun

mare f (plural mares)
* mother
    mare subrogada ― surrogate mother
* uterus (of an animal)
    Synonym: úter
* (by analogy) main course of a river or canal; channel
* (Mallorca, playground games) home

#### Derived terms

* cèl·lula mare
* Dia de la Mare
* emmarat
* marededeu

### References

* “mare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Corsican
### Alternative forms

* mari

### Etymology

From Latin mare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.re/

### Noun

mare m
* sea

### Further reading

* “mare” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑːɑ/

### Noun

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)
* (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

#### Related terms

* mareridt n

### References

* “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī (“story”).

#### Noun

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)
* (Belgium, archaic) message, report, story
    Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal
* (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)
* depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

### Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch māre (“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

#### Noun

mare f (plural mares, diminutive maartje n)
* a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
* (Belgium) nightmare
* witch

##### Derived terms

* nachtmare

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mare
* (dated or formal) 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 Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maʁ/ ~ /mɑʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mare f (plural mares)
* puddle
* pool

#### Derived terms

* pavé dans la mare

### Further reading

* “mare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* amer
* arme, armé
* rame, ramé

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈmarə/ [ˈma.rə]
* Syllabification: ma‧re

### Noun

marê (plural mare-mare)
* (planetology) mare (a large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon)

#### Alternative forms

* maria

### Further reading

* “mare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Istriot
### Etymology 1

From Latin mare.

#### Noun

mare
* 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 māter.

#### Noun

mare f
* mother

#### See also

* mama

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* mar (apocopic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.re/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: mà‧re

### Noun

mare m (plural mari)
* sea

#### Related terms

* ammarare
* frutto di mare
* lupo di mare
* marea
* mareggiata
* maremoto
* maretta
* marina
* marinaio
* marinara
* marinare
* marino
* marittimo

#### See also

* oceano (“ocean”)

### Further reading

* mare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* mare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Mera, arme, erma, mera, rame, rema

## Japanese
### Romanization

mare
* Rōmaji transcription of まれ

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈma.re/, [ˈmärɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.re/, [ˈmäːre]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mare n (genitive maris); third declension
* sea
** c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum , (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis):Neptunum regnatorem marumNeptune, ruler of the seas
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.1:[facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.
** 13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum):Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.
** 1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto :a marī usque ad marefrom sea to sea

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
* The ablative singular can be marī 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

* Caspium mare
* Mare Aegaeum
* Mare Balticum
* Mare Caribaeum
* Mare Caribicum
* Mare Germanicum
* Mare Hadriāticum
* Mare Internum
* Mare Ionium
* Mare Mediterrāneum
* Mare Nostrum
* Mare Rubrum
* Tyrrhēnum mare

##### Derived terms

* bimaris
* Hibēricum Mare
* marīnus
* maritimus

##### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: mare, mari
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: amari, amare, mari
** Istro-Romanian: måre
** Megleno-Romanian: mari
** Romanian: mare f
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: mare
*** Gallurese: mari
*** Sassarese: mari
** Dalmatian: mur
** Istriot: mare
** Italian: mare
** Neapolitan: mare
** Sicilian: mari
** Venetan: mar
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: mâr
** Romansch: mar, mer
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: mèr
** Ligurian: mâ, mà
** Lombard: mar
** Piedmontese: mar
** Romagnol: mêr
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old Catalan: mar
*** Catalan: mar m or f
** Old French: mer f
*** French: mer
**** Antillean Creole: lanmè
**** Haitian Creole: lanmè
**** → Volapük: mel
*** Norman: mé (Jersey)
*** Walloon: mer
** Old Occitan: mar
*** Occitan: mar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: mar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: mar m, mare
*** Galician: mar m
*** Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)
** Old Leonese: *mar
*** Asturian: mar
*** Extremaduran: mari
*** Mirandese: mar
** Old Spanish: mar
*** Ladino: mar
*** Spanish: mar m or f
**** → Aymara: lamara
**** → Classical Nahuatl: láma̱r
**** → Papiamentu: lama, laman
* Borrowings:
** → English: mare
** → Esperanto: maro
*** Ido: maro
** → Interlingua: mar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mare
* ablative singular of mās

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mare”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

### Further reading

* 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

### Anagrams

* mera

## Marau
### Noun

mare
* water

### References

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

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

#### Adjective

mâre
* famous, famed
* honoured, prestigious
* well-known

##### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 2

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją, related to Etymology 1 above.

#### Noun

mâre f
* fame, famousness
* rumour
* 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 *marā.

#### Noun

māre ?
* 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
* water

### References

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

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Latin mare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmarə/

### Noun

mare ?
* sea (a vast mass of salty water)

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* mathe (Jersey)
* mar (Sark)

### Etymology

From Old French mare.

### Noun

mare f (plural mares)
* (France, Guernsey) pool
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 534:Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.

## Northern Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

### Noun

mare
* saliva

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

### Noun

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)
* (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

#### 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, murru (dialectal)

#### Noun

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)
* (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

##### Derived terms

* marekors (“pentagram”)
* marekvist (“a witch's broom”)
* mareritt (“nightmare”)
* marespjeld
* (probably derived) innmari

### 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 mare/mar)
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### References

* “mare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* arme, armé, erma, rame, rema

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *marā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑ.re/

### Noun

mare f (nominative plural maran)
* mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

#### Declension

Weak:

#### 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)
* evil; bad

### Adverb

mare
* evilly; badly

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀫𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* मरे (Devanagari script)
* মরে (Bengali script)
* මරෙ (Sinhalese script)
* မရေ (Burmese script)
* มเร or มะเร (Thai script)
* ᨾᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ມເຣ or ມະເຣ (Lao script)
* មរេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄟𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

mare
* singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

## Papuma
### Noun

mare
* water

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Verb

mare
* inflection of marar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Most likely inherited from Latin maiōrem, accusative singular of Latin maior, albeit with an unusual (though not impossible) phonological evolution. Compare Aromanian mari, Megleno-Romanian mari, Dalmatian maur, Portuguese mor, Logudorese mere and Campidanese meri. An alternative, less likely theory proposes a derivation from Latin marem (“male”), with a semantic shift from "male" to "large", on an idiomatic basis (i.e. assuming that the expression "s-a făcut mare", meaning "[ 3rd-pers. sg. ] grew up" [literally "made themselves big"] initially referred exclusively to boys becoming men, and that it shifted over time to refer more broadly to physical growth, and by extension, being large). Other theories include a derivation from its homonym mare (meaning sea), and a substrate origin (either Proto-Albanian or Thracian).

#### Adjective

mare m or f or n (plural mari)
* big, large, great
    Antonym: mic
    O mare mare. ― A big sea.
* great, mighty
    Un om mare. ― A great man.

##### Derived terms

* mări
* mărime
* mărinimos

##### Related terms

* măreț

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mare f (plural mări)
* sea
    Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.

##### Related terms

* marin

### References

* ↑ Giurgea, Ion (2016) “Etimologia adjectivului mare. O reconsiderare necesară”, in Limba română, LXV (3)‎ (in Romanian), Editura Academiei
* ↑ Mensching, Guido, Remberger, Eva-Maria (2016) “Chapter 17: Sardinian”, in Ledgeway, Adam, Maiden, Martin, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 278

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* mari (“Campidanese”)

### Etymology

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

### Noun

mare m (plural mares)
* sea

## Sonsorolese
### Noun

mare
* boy

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* mars

### Etymology

Clipping of kumare, earlier variant of komadre.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈmaː.ɾɛ]
* Rhymes: -aɾe
* Syllabification: ma‧re

### Noun

mare (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)
* (slang) close female friend; sister
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan
    Coordinate terms: brad, pare, tol
    Ano'ng tsika, mare?What's the buzz, sister?

#### See also

* Marites

### References

* “mare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

## Tahitian
### Noun

mare
* (archaic) cough

#### Usage notes

Use hota.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.ɾe/

### Noun

mare
* Alternative form of mari (“stone”)

### References

* Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

## Venda
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

### Noun

mare
* saliva

## Venetan
### Pronunciation

* (Venetian) IPA: /ˈma.ɾe/

### Etymology 1

From Latin mater.

#### Noun

mare f (invariable)
* mother

### Etymology 2

From Latin mare.

#### Noun

mare
* sea

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مارا.

### Noun

mare m or f
* marriage