marron

See also: Marron and marrón

English

Etymology 1

Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. A sweet chestnut. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:

     ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’

Derived terms

• marron glacé

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

Nyunga marran

Noun

marron (plural marrons)

1. Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.

Synonyms

• hairy marron, Margaret River marron

See also

• gilgie, jilgie
• yabby, yabbie

Anagrams

• Morran

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Marron

Etymology

Borrowed from French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”), from Taíno simaran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑˈrɔn/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ron
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. Maroon (descendant of escaped African slaves in the Americas or Caribbean; escaped slave)

   Synonyms: bosneger, boslandcreool

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Finnish

Noun

marron

1. Genitive singular form of marto.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁɔ̃/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian marrone.

Noun

marron m (plural marrons)

1. horse-chestnut
2. chestnut
3. chestnut brown
4. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
5. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
6. (informal) punch (with the fist)
7. (informal) head

Adjective

marron (invariable)

1. (France) brown

Usage notes

• This adjective is used mainly in France. Elsewhere, the usual adjective is brun.
• Like all colors that take their name from animals and plants, this sense of the adjective is invariable. However, by analogy with the corresponding noun which has a plural, some people may erroneously consider it variable in number and use marrons as the plural.

Descendants

• → Asturian: marrón
• → Catalan: marró
• → Galician: marrón
• → Spanish: marrón

Etymology 2

From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón, from cima.

Adjective

marron (feminine singular marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)

1. that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
2. illicit, crooked (of professions)

   magie marronne ― hedge magic

Noun

marron m (plural marrons, feminine marronne)

1. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

Further reading

• “marron” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).