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marra

See also: Marra, marrá, and märra

English

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Etymology

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From Old Norse margr.

Noun

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marra (plural marras)

  1. (West Cumbria, Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
    Cheers marra!
    Alreet marra?
    Hoo's it gaan marra?

References

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  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

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Basque

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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marra inan

  1. line (continuous mark)
  2. border

Declension

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Declension of marra (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive marra marra marrak
ergative marrak marrak marrek
dative marrari marrari marrei
genitive marraren marraren marren
comitative marrarekin marrarekin marrekin
causative marrarengatik marrarengatik marrengatik
benefactive marrarentzat marrarentzat marrentzat
instrumental marraz marraz marrez
inessive marratan marran marretan
locative marratako marrako marretako
allative marratara marrara marretara
terminative marrataraino marraraino marretaraino
directive marratarantz marrarantz marretarantz
destinative marratarako marrarako marretarako
ablative marratatik marratik marretatik
partitive marrarik — —
prolative marratzat — —

Further reading

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  • “marra”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “marra”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

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Verb

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marra

  1. inflection of marrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

French

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marra

  1. third-person singular past historic of marrer

Galician

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Latin marra (“hoe”), probably from a Semitic language, ultimately from Akkadian. Compare Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marrā, “hoe, shovel”), Arabic مَرّ (marr, “shovel, spade”), and Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru).

Noun

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marra f (plural marras)

  1. maul, sledgehammer
  2. (archaic) hoe
    • 1412, José García Oro, editor, Galicia en la Baja Edad Media. Iglesia, señorío y nobleza, Santiago: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 238:
      que page por esta medida cada lavrador que labrar con dous boys des e oyto medidas arrapadas e o que lavrar con huun boy nove medidas et o que lavrar con amarra tres medidas
      each peasant should pay by this measure: the one ploughing with two oxen, eighteen levelled measures; the one ploughing with one, nine measures; the one ploughing with a hoe, three

Etymology 2

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Deverbal from marrar (“to lack; to miss”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”).

Noun

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marra f (plural marras)

  1. (dated) lack, shortage
    • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 206:
      que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra
      because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

Etymology 3

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Verb

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marra

  1. inflection of marrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “marra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “marra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “marra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “marra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

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marra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative marraði, supine marrað)

  1. to creak

Conjugation

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marra — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að marra
supine
(sagnbót) 		marrað
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		marrandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég marra við mörrum present
(nútíð) 		ég marri við mörrum
þú marrar þið marrið þú marrir þið marrið
hann, hún, það marrar þeir, þær, þau marra hann, hún, það marri þeir, þær, þau marri
past
(þátíð) 		ég marraði við mörruðum past
(þátíð) 		ég marraði við mörruðum
þú marraðir þið mörruðuð þú marraðir þið mörruðuð
hann, hún, það marraði þeir, þær, þau mörruðu hann, hún, það marraði þeir, þær, þau mörruðu
imperative
(boðháttur) 		marra (þú) marrið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
marraðu marriði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
marrast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að marrast
supine
(sagnbót) 		marrast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		marrandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég marrast við mörrumst present
(nútíð) 		ég marrist við mörrumst
þú marrast þið marrist þú marrist þið marrist
hann, hún, það marrast þeir, þær, þau marrast hann, hún, það marrist þeir, þær, þau marrist
past
(þátíð) 		ég marraðist við mörruðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég marraðist við mörruðumst
þú marraðist þið mörruðust þú marraðist þið mörruðust
hann, hún, það marraðist þeir, þær, þau mörruðust hann, hún, það marraðist þeir, þær, þau mörruðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		marrast (þú) marrist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
marrastu marristi *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
marraður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
strong declension
(sterk beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		marraður mörruð marrað marraðir marraðar mörruð
accusative
(þolfall) 		marraðan marraða marrað marraða marraðar mörruð
dative
(þágufall) 		mörruðum marraðri mörruðu mörruðum mörruðum mörruðum
genitive
(eignarfall) 		marraðs marraðrar marraðs marraðra marraðra marraðra
weak declension
(veik beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn) 		masculine
(karlkyn) 		feminine
(kvenkyn) 		neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall) 		marraði marraða marraða mörruðu mörruðu mörruðu
accusative
(þolfall) 		marraða mörruðu marraða mörruðu mörruðu mörruðu
dative
(þágufall) 		marraða mörruðu marraða mörruðu mörruðu mörruðu
genitive
(eignarfall) 		marraða mörruðu marraða mörruðu mörruðu mörruðu

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Etymology

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From Latin marra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmar.ra/
  • Rhymes: -arra
  • Hyphenation: màr‧ra

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marra f (plural marre)

  1. hoe
  2. fluke (of an anchor)
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Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Possibly from Semitic via Ancient Greek μάρρον (márrhon); compare Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru [GEŠMAR]), Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marra), and Arabic مَرّ (marr).

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Noun

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marra f (genitive marrae); first declension

  1. hoe
  2. hook, weeding-hook

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marra marrae
Genitive marrae marrārum
Dative marrae marrīs
Accusative marram marrās
Ablative marrā marrīs
Vocative marra marrae

Descendants

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  • Corsican: marra, merra
  • French: marre
  • Galician: marra
  • Italian: marra

References

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  • “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • marra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “marra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “marra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian marra.

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marra f (plural marar, paucal marriet)

  1. mattock, pickaxe
  2. (nautical) fluke (of an anchor)

Martuthunira

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Etymology

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From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *marra.

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marra

  1. wing
  2. flipper

References

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  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aʁɐ
  • Hyphenation: mar‧ra

Etymology 1

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Noun

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marra f (plural marras)

  1. boldness; courage
    Synonyms: coragem, valentia
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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marra

  1. inflection of marrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Verb

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marra

  1. inflection of marrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Wiradjuri

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Compare Gamilaraay mara.

Noun

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marra

  1. hand

Yagara

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marra

  1. hand
  2. five

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