mara-mara
Basque
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editmara-mara
- flowing or falling gently but copiously (said of snow, sweat, tears...)
- 1912, Domingo Agirre, Garoa[1], Durango: Florentino Elosu, page 158:
- ¡Ta nolakoak! Aitzari ere mara mara negar eragitekoak.
- Of course! The kind [of howling] that could make rocks cry copiously.
Further reading
edit- “mara-mara”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “mara-mara”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005