marron
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.
NounEdit
marron (plural marrons)
- 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.’
- 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
marron (plural marrons)
- Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.
SynonymsEdit
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DutchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”), from Taíno simaran.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
marron m (plural marrons)
- Maroon (descendant of escaped African slaves in the Americas or Caribbean; escaped slave)
- Synonyms: bosneger, boslandcreool
FinnishEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Italian marrone.
NounEdit
marron m (plural marrons)
- horse-chestnut
- chestnut
- chestnut brown
- A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
- (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
- (informal) punch (with the fist)
- (informal) head
AdjectiveEdit
marron (invariable)
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From a West Indies creole, from Spanish cimarrón, from cima.
AdjectiveEdit
marron (feminine singular marronne, masculine plural marrons, feminine plural marronnes)
- that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
- illicit, crooked (of professions)
- magie marronne ― hedge magic
NounEdit
marron m (plural marrons, feminine marronne)
- maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)
Further readingEdit
- “marron” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).