# marge
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /mɑɹd͡ʒ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɑːd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

### Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo. Doublet of margin and margo.

#### Noun

marge (plural marges)
* (archaic) Margin; edge; brink or verge.
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:[…] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, Where thou thyself dost air [...]
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLV, page 68:So be it: there no shade can last ⁠In that deep dawn behind the tomb, ⁠But clear from marge to marge shall bloom The eternal landscape of the past; A lifelong tract of time reveal’d; […]
** 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:the long curved crest Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.
** 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

### Etymology 2

Clipping of margarine.

#### Alternative forms

* marg

#### Noun

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)
* (informal, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) Margarine.
** 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 246:Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

marge (plural marges)
* (MLE) Mother.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mother
** 2015, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge
** 2018, Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City, London: Tinder Press, →ISBN, page unknown:I think about my family too. My dad and his failing heart. My marge and her church. I think about what they'll do once I'm gone. Think about the way out, the blue space above.

### Anagrams

* Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, magre, regma

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan margen, from Latin marginem (compare Occitan marge, French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmar.ʒə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmaɾ.d͡ʒe]

### Noun

marge m (plural marges or margens)
* margin, edge, border
* a riverbank, especially when lined with trees; a border planting
* (economics) margin

#### Derived terms

* al marge
* fenàs de marge
* marge d'error
* marge de benefici
* marge de confiança

#### Related terms

* marginal
* marginar

### References

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

## Dutch
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch marge, maerge, from Old French marge, from Latin margō.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

marge f (plural marges, diminutive margetje n)
* margin
    Synonym: kantlijn

#### Derived terms

* zekerheidsmarge
* onzekerheidsmarge

#### Related terms

* marginaal

### Anagrams

* mager

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin marginem, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maʁʒ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

marge f (plural marges)
* margin (of paper, etc)
* (economics, business) markup (percentage or amount added to buy-in price)

#### Derived terms

* en marge de
* marge de manœuvre
* marger

#### Descendants

* → Czech: marže
* → German: Marge
* → Polish: marża
* → Russian: маржа (marža)

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* germa