Estonian

Proper noun

Mare

1. A female given name.

Greenlandic

Etymology

Archaic spelling of Mari.

Proper noun

Mare

1. A female given name.

References

• Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, ISBN 978-87-990324-3-3
• Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɚ/
• Homophone: mayor (in many dialects)

Noun

mare ‎(plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (Britain, pejorative, slang) A foolish woman.
   • 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

     The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?

Antonyms

• stallion and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)

Coordinate terms

• (adult female horse): foal and filly refer to younger horses, pony can refer to adult horses of either gender under a certain height.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English mare, from Old English mare ‎(“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ ‎(“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara ‎(“incubus, nightmare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- ‎(“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígan ‎(“phantom queen”), Albanian merë ‎(“horror”), Polish zmora ‎(“nightmare”), Czech mura ‎(“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα ‎(Móra).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/

Noun

mare ‎(plural mares)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
2. (Britain, colloquial) (short for nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

Derived terms

• daymare
• nightmare

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin mare ‎(“sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːreɪ/, /ˈmeːri/, /ˈmɑːri/

Noun

mare ‎(plural maria)

1. (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
2. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

Translations

Anagrams

• Amer., amer., Erma, ream

Albanian

Alternative forms

• marë, marulë

Etymology

Plurale tantum; plural of variant marë, from Latin marum ‎(“cat thyme, kind of sage”).

Noun

mare f (definite singular marja)

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
2. strawberry tree fruit

Derived terms

• mareshtë

Aromanian

Adjective

mare

1. Alternative form of mari

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal [Term?], from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/
• Rhymes: -aɾe

Noun

mare f ‎(plural mares)

1. mother

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare m

1. sea

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mara.

Noun

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. incubus, succubus

Related terms

• mareridt n

Declension

References

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mare ‎(“incubus”), from Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Cognate with German Mär.

Noun

mare f ‎(plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. message, report, story
2. rumor

Synonyms

• (message, report, story): bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal
• (rumor): gerucht

Related terms

• vermaard, vermaarde

Verb

mare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of maren

Etymology 2

Noun

mare f ‎(plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

Etymology 3

Related to nachtmerrie ‎(“nightmare”), a compound in which the latter component (merrie ‎(“female horse”)) is a corruption of mare. Analogously related to the latter components in English nightmare and French cauchemar.

Noun

mare f ‎(plural mares, diminutive maartje n)

1. a nocturnal monster or spirit that torments its victims while they are sleeping
2. nightmare
3. witch

Related terms

• nachtmare, nachtmerrie

Anagrams

• arme, rame

French

Etymology

From Middle French mare, from Old French mare, from Old Norse marr ‎(“lake, sea, pool”), from Proto-Germanic *mari ‎(“lake, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *mari-, *mori- ‎(“marsh, lake, sea”). Akin to Old High German meri ("lake, sea"; > German Meer), Old Saxon meri, Old English mere ("pond, pool, mere"; > English mere). More at mere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑʁ/

Noun

mare f ‎(plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

Anagrams

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

Istriot

Etymology 1

From Latin mare.

Noun

mare

1. sea
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!

     How they row well on the high seas!

Derived terms

• alto mare

Etymology 2

From Latin mater, matrem.

Noun

mare f

1. mother

See also

• mama

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːre/, [ˈmäːre]
• Rhymes: -are

Noun

mare m ‎(plural mari)

1. sea

Related terms

See also

• oceano ‎(“ocean”)

Anagrams

• arme
• erma
• mera
• rame
• rema

Japanese

Romanization

mare

1. rōmaji reading of まれ

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈma.rɛ]

Noun

mare n ‎(genitive maris); third declension

1. sea
   • National motto of Canada:

     a mari usque ad mare‎ ― from sea to sea

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Synonyms

• pontus

Derived terms

• Hibēricum Mare
• Mare Balticum
• Mare Germanicum
• marīnus
• maritimus

Descendants

Noun

mare m

1. ablative singular of mas

References

• mare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    
  • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

Marau

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Munggui

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarɐ/

Noun

mare

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

Norman

Alternative forms

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French mare.

Noun

mare f ‎(plural mares)

1. (France, Guernsey) pool

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *marǭ.

Noun

mare f ‎(nominative plural maran)

1. nightmare, evil spirit

Declension

Descendants

• English: mare

Old French

Alternative forms

• mar

Adjective

mare m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

Adverb

mare

1. evilly; badly

Papuma

Noun

mare

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Etymology 1

From Latin mārem, accusative singular of mās ‎(“male”), from Proto-Indo-European *meryo ‎(“young man”)

Adjective

mare m, f, n ‎(plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   O mare mare.‎

   A big sea.

2. great, mighty

   Un om mare.‎

   A great man.

Inflection

Antonyms

• mic

Derived terms

• mări
• mărime
• mărinimos

Related terms

• măreț

Etymology 2

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

mare f ‎(plural mări)

1. sea

   Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.‎

   When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.

Declension

Related terms

• marin

Sonsorolese

Noun

mare

1. boy

Tahitian

Noun

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Usage notes

Use hota.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin māter, mātrem. Compare Italian madre

Noun

mare f ‎(invariable)

1. mother

See also

• pare

Zazaki

Etymology

From Arabic مارا.

Noun

mare ?

1. marriage