# mar
## Translingual
### Symbol

mar
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marathi.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Marathi terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /mɑː(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /mɑɹ/, [mɑɹ], [mɑ˞]
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: mar
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited 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”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).

#### Alternative forms

* marre (obsolete)

#### Verb

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)
* (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
** 1551, William Turner, “Prologe”, in A new Herball, etc.‎, folio Aiiii:[…] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:
** 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]: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: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: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, 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, Royal Octavo Stereotype edition, volume IV, 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, 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.

##### Derived terms

* marring
* mar-sport

##### Translations
#### Noun

mar (plural mars)
* 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.

##### Derived terms

* marless

### Etymology 2

See mere. Doublet of mare and mere.
(1175) « shallow and stagnating little body of water » from old norrois marr (« see, lake »), similar to old Saxon meri, from ancient German meri, German Meer, Anglo-Saxon mere (« swamp ; lake »).

#### Noun

mar (plural mars)
* A small lake.

### Etymology 3

See mayor.

#### Noun

mar (plural mars)
* (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

### References

* “mar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

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

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mar/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

mar
* (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

### Conjunction

mar
* (colloquial, dialectal) Alternative form of maar

## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch maar.

### Conjunction

mar
* but

### References

* D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mare

### Noun

mar m (plural mars)
* sea

### References

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

## Asturian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɾ/ [ˈmaɾ]

### Noun

mar m or f (plural mares)
* sea (body of water)

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mare.

### Noun

mar f (plural mars)
* sea

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmar]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Homophones: ma, mà
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: mar

### Noun

mar m or f (plural mars)
* sea

#### Derived terms

* baixamar
* marejar
* marejol
* plenamar

#### Related terms

* maresme
* marí
* marítim

### References

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

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mar (“sea”).

### Noun

mar
* sea

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑr/, [ˈmɑ̝r]
* Rhymes: -ɑr
* Hyphenation: mar

### Interjection

mar
* Alternative form of maar.

### Further reading

* “mar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar, from Latin mare. Compare Portuguese mar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɾ/

### Noun

mar m (plural mares)
* sea
* swell
    Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar ― Today we are not going, there is too much swell
* (figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity
    Synonyms: monte, mundo, chea

#### Derived terms

* beiramar
* mareante
* marear

#### Related terms

* marea
* mariña
* Mariña
* mariñeiro
* mariño
* marisco
* marisma

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

Derived from Portuguese mar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu már.

### Noun

mar
* sea

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɒr]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒr

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *mura-, (*murɜ) (“bit, crumb; crumble, crack”).

#### Verb

mar
* (ambitransitive) to bite (of animals, chiefly snakes, sometimes
dogs or chinches; used either with -t/-ot/-at/-et/-öt or with -ba/-be)
    Synonyms: harap, tép
* (ambitransitive) to bite, to burn (of acid)
    Synonym: roncsol

##### Derived terms

* marakodik
* marat
* marás
* mardos
* maró
(With verbal prefixes):
* belemar
* elmar
* felmar
* kimar
* lemar
* megmar
* összemar
* szétmar
* aki kapja, marja

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mar (uncountable)
* withers (the protruding part of a four-legged animal between the neck and the backbone)

##### Derived terms

* marmagasság

### References

* ↑ Entry #566 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ mar in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (to bite): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (withers): mar in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mar/

### Adjective

mar
* expensive

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaːr/
    Rhymes: -aːr

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

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

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mar m (genitive singular marar, no plural)
* (poetic) the sea

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

mar n (genitive singular mars, no plural)
* bruise, contusion
** 1903, Búnaðarfélag Íslands, Búnaðarrit, Ríkisprentsmiðjan Gutenberg:Þannig fylgir hitasótt jafnan stórum mörum og beinbrotum.Thus, fever is often accompanied by large bruises and fractures.

##### Declension
### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “mar”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

## Interlingua
### Noun

mar (plural mares)
* sea

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈmˠɑɾˠ/
* (Connacht, Ulster) IPA: /ˈmˠaɾˠ/, (unstressed) /ˈmˠəɾˠ/

### Etymology 1

Derived from Old Irish immar.

#### Conjunction

mar
* because
    Synonyms: óir, toisc go, arae, de bhrí go
* as
    Fan mar atá tú.Stay as you are.

##### Derived terms

* cad é mar
* mar ea
* mar go
* mar gur
* mar nach
* mar nár

#### Preposition

mar (plus dative, triggers lenition)
* like
* as

##### Synonyms

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

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”), probably contaminated by mar (“as, like”) or with dissimilation in forms like early modern a mbail a bhfuil, cognate with Scottish Gaelic far (“where”), compare Old Irish fail (“where”).

#### Adverb

mar
* where (relative, not interrogative, followed by indirect relative)
    Fan mar a bhfuil tú.Stay where you are.

#### Further reading

* R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmar/
* Rhymes: -ar
* Hyphenation: màr

### Noun

mar m (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of mare (“sea”) (used in poetry and in names of some seas)

#### Derived terms

* Mar Adriatico
* Mar Arabico
* Mar Baltico
* Mar Bianco
* Mar Caspio (“Caspian Sea”)
* Mar Celtico
* Mar Cinese occidentale
* Mar Cinese orientale
* Mar d'Azov
* Mar d'Irlanda
* Mar dei Caraibi
* Mar dei Chukchi
* Mar dei Coralli
* Mar dei Sargassi
* Mar del Giappone
* Mar del Nord
* Mar della Siberia Orientale
* Mar delle Filippine
* Mar delle Molucche
* Mar delle Salomone
* Mar di Andamane
* Mar di Arafura
* Mar di Banda
* Mar di Barents
* Mar di Beaufort
* Mar di Bering
* Mar di Celebes
* Mar di Ceram
* Mar di Flores
* Mar di Galilea
* Mar di Giava
* Mar di Groenlandia
* Mar di Kara
* Mar di Laptev
* Mar di Marmara
* Mar di Mindanao
* Mar di Norvegia
* Mar di Ohotsk
* Mar di Ross
* Mar di Sardegna
* Mar di Sibuyan
* Mar di Sicilia
* Mar di Sulu
* Mar di Tasmania
* Mar di Timor
* Mar di Weddell
* Mar Egeo
* Mar Giallo (“Yellow Sea”)
* Mar Glaciale Artico
* Mar Ionio (“Ionian Sea”)
* Mar Ligure
* Mar Mediterraneo (“Mediterranean Sea”)
* Mar Morto (“Dead Sea”)
* Mar Nero
* Mar Rosso (“Red Sea”)
* Mar Tirreno

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

Derived from Portuguese mar.

### Noun

mar
* sea
* ocean

### References

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

## Ladino
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mar f (Hebrew spelling מאר)
* sea (a large body of salt water)
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Vejés liviana‎, נור הפקות, page 59:Vinieron al bodre de la mar. Avía un barko, i los ombres se suvieron enriva del barko, i él se suvió kon eyos. Empesaron a lavorar a las velas, i el barko partió.They came to the sea’s edge. There was a ship, and the men climbed on top of it, and it rose up with them. They began to work on the sails, and the ship departed.

### References

* ↑ “mar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian mare, from Latin.

### Noun

mar
* sea

## Maltese
### Etymology

Inherited from Arabic مَارَ (māra, “to budge, to move forth, to fluctuate, to undergo commotion”) in form, influenced by Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass”) in meaning.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːr/
* Rhymes: -aːr

### Verb

mar (imperfect jmur, verbal noun mawra or mawrien)
* to go
** 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:Niftakar li kont mort mal-folla u ma’ sħabi ta’ l-Azzjoni Kattolika biex nilqgħuh fi dħul iż-Żejtun.I remember that I went with the group and with my friends from 'Catholic Action', so we can welcome him at the entrance of Żejtun.

#### Conjugation

* Note: Predominantly conjugated like a hollow root, but the original gemination surfaces prevocalically, i.e. in the plural imperfect as well as the third-person feminine and plural

## Marshallese
### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [mʲɑrˠ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /mʲærˠ/
* Bender phonemes: {mar}

### Noun

mar
* a bush
* a shrub
* a boondock
* a thicket

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Norman
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French mare.

### Noun

mar f (plural mars)
* (Sark) pool

## Northern Kurdish
### Noun

mar m
* snake
* marriage

## Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan mar, from Latin mare.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mar f (plural mars)
* sea (large body of water)

#### Derived terms

* liri de mar

## Old French
### Adjective

mar m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)
* Alternative form of mare

### Adverb

mar
* Alternative form of mare

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* mare

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɾ/

### Noun

mar m (plural mars)
* 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.

#### Descendants

* Galician: mar m
* Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "mar ~ mare"

## Old Norse
### Noun

mar
* accusative/dative singular of marr

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mar f
* sea (a large body of salt water)
** […] and from where it starts running to where it enters the sea, there are two hundred miles., Alfonso X, Lapidario, page f. 83v.:[…] ⁊ dond ell comiença a correr faſta do entra en la mar, a dozientos migeros.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* Ladino: mar, מאר
* Spanish: mar

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 326

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmar/
* Rhymes: -ar
* Syllabification: mar

### Noun

mar f
* genitive plural of mara

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaʁ/ [ˈmah]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaʁ/ [ˈmah]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈmaɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈmaʁ/ [ˈmaχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmaɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈma.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ, (Brazil) -aʁ
* Homophone: mal (Caipira Brazil)
* Hyphenation: mar

#### Noun

mar m (plural mares)
* sea
* (planetology) mare
    Synonym: mare
* (figurative) a multitude; a great amount or number of things
    um mar de possibilidades ― a multitude of possibilities

##### Derived terms

* amarar
* gaivotas em terra, tempestade no mar
* Mar Adriático
* mar alto
* Mar Aral
* Mar Báltico
* Mar Branco
* Mar Cáspio
* mar chão
* Mar das Caraíbas
* Mar de Azov
* mar de rosas
* Mar do Japão
* Mar do Norte
* Mar dos Sargaços
* Mar Egeu
* Mar Mediterrâneo
* Mar Morto
* Mar Negro
* Mar Tirreno
* Mar Vermelho
* volta de mar

##### Related terms

* maré
* mareiro
* maresia
* marina
* marinha
* marinheiro
* marinho
* marítimo
* marujo

##### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: mar, már

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

mar
* Eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese.

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* mer (Puter)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

mar f (plural mars)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sea

### Noun

mar m (plural mars)
* (Vallader) sea

## Satawalese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *mara (“to spoil, to go foul [of food]” – compare with Tongan mā “breadfruit preserve, Western bread”, Maori mara “food preserved by steeping in water”, Samoan mala “soft [of food]” and Fijian mara “stench of a corpse”).

### Noun

mar
* preserve of fermented breadfruit stored in pits prior

### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “mara”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 158-9
* ↑ Pollock, Nancy (1984) “Breadfruit Fermentation Practices in Oceania”, in Journal de la Société des Océanistes‎, volume 40, number 79, →DOI, pages 157, 164

## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* (Lewis) man

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish immar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɾ/

### Preposition

mar (+ nominative with the definite article, + dative otherwise, triggers lenition)
* as
* like

#### Derived terms

* ciamar
* mar eadh
* mar eisimpleir
* mar seo
* mar sin

### Conjunction

mar (Tiree, Colonsay, Islay)
* when (relative/non-interrogative)
    Synonyms: nuair, dar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *marъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mâːr/

### Noun

mȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑р)
* (rare) diligence
* (rare) eagerness, zeal

#### Declension
### See also

* marljivost
* marljiv

## Somali
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *mVr-. Compare Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass, elapse”).

### Verb

mar
* to pass, to proceed

### References

* “mar” In: Abdullah Umar Mansur (1985) Qaamuska Afsoomaliga.

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɾ/ [ˈmaɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: mar

### Noun

mar m or f same meaning (plural mares)
* sea
    La República de Cuba está ubicada en el mar Caribe. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
** 2008, Cécile Corbel (lyrics and music), “En la mar [In the Middle of the Sea]”, in Songbook vol. 2‎ (CD), performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique: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 a window At the window there's a maiden Who loves the sailors.
* seaside
* (selenology) lunar mare
* (la mar) loads
* (la mar de) really; hella

#### Usage notes

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

#### Hyponyms

* See also Category:es:Seas.

#### Derived terms

* a mares
* agua de mar
* aguamar
* alta mar
* anémona de mar
* araña de mar
* arar en el mar
* arenaria de mar
* arrojarse a la mar
* artillero de mar
* azul de mar
* barbo de mar
* bellota de mar
* brazo de mar
* brezo de mar
* buey de mar
* caballito de mar
* caballo de mar
* cabo de mar
* cangrejo de mar
* carajo de mar
* chocha de mar
* ciencias del mar
* cigarra de mar
* clavelina de mar
* cohombro de mar
* creciente del mar
* dátil de mar
* de mar a mar
* echar agua al mar
* encaje de mar
* erizo de mar
* espuma de mar
* estrella de mar
* galleta de mar
* gallina de mar
* golondrina de mar
* hacerse a la mar
* la mar
* la mar en coche
* libertad de los mares
* lirio de mar
* llover a mares
* mar adentro
* mar de batalla
* mar de fondo
* mar de leche
* mar de leva
* mar de viento
* mar marginal
* mar territorial
* matrícula de mar
* me cago en la mar
* nivel del mar
* nutria de mar
* oreja de mar
* orilla del mar
* ortiga de mar
* oruga de mar
* pato de mar
* pelillos a la mar
* pepino de mar
* perejil de mar
* piojo de mar
* protesta de mar
* puerco de mar
* pulga de mar
* rábano de mar
* rata de mar
* sudar a mares
* trucha de mar
* ultramar
* uvas de mar
* zorra de mar

#### Related terms

* marea
* marear
* maremoto
* mareo
* marina
* marino
* marisco
* marisma
* marítimo

#### Descendants

* → Aymara: lamara
* → Classical Nahuatl: láma̱r
* → Papiamentu: lama, laman

### Further reading

* “mar”, 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

## Sumerian
### Romanization

mar
* Romanization of 𒈥 (mar)

## Swedish
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mar
* March; Abbreviation of mars.

##### See also

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

### Etymology 2

From Germanic mari-. mardröm is unrelated.

#### Noun

mar
* (rare) sea (large body of salt water)
* (rare) shallow, muddy bay (of the sea)
** Geddan trifves bland vass i vikar och marar. (Carl Ulrik Cederström, Fiskodling och Sveriges fiskerier, 1857, page 83.)
* (rare) small body of water, marsh
* (rare) meadowland (which used to be seabed)
* (rare) low, sandy beach of the sea, flying sand field

##### Related terms

* mar-
* mareld
* marsvin
* markatta
* marso
* marsugga
* martorn
* marulk
* manet
* moras

### Anagrams

* arm, ram

## Tat
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian مار (mâr).

### Noun

mar
* snake

## Torres Strait Creole
### Noun

mar
* (western dialect) a person's shadow

#### Synonyms

* mari (eastern dialect)

## Venetan
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mar m (plural mari)
* sea

## West Frisian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Adverb

mar
* only, solely

##### Further reading

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

#### Conjunction

mar
* but

##### Further reading

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

#### Noun

mar c (plural marren)
* but

##### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Frisian mere, from Proto-West Germanic *mari.

#### Noun

mar c (plural marren, diminutive marke)
* lake

##### Further reading

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

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mar
* thirst

## Zaghawa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɾ/

### Noun

mar
* star

### References

* Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

## Zazaki
### Alternative forms

* mor

### Etymology

Related to Persian مار (mâr)
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɑɾ]
* Hyphenation: mar

### Noun

mar m
* (zoology) snake

### Noun

mar f
* (family) mother (specification)