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From Middle English mare, mere, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     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. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, 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?

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

• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.

From Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara.

• (British) IPA^(key): /mɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)

mare (plural mares)

2. (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

   I'm having a complete mare today.

• daymare
• nightmare

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mar and mere.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/, /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɑɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹi

mare (plural maria)

2. (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
3. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

   Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

See mayor.

mare (plural mares)

1. Obsolete form of mayor.
2. Obsolete form of mair.

• mera, Amer., rame, mear, Erma, Maer, Mera, Ream, amer., Arem, arme, ramé, ream

• IPA^(key): /maˈre/ [mʌˈɾɛ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧re

maré f (singulative maréyta m or mareytá f)

1. family, relationship

maré

1. (Northern Afar, intransitive) live
2. (Northern Afar, intransitive) continue

• mára (“people”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “mare”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• marë, marulë

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

mare f (definite marja)

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

• mareshtë

mare

1. Alternative form of mari

• Hyphenation: ma‧re
• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈma.ɾe]

máre

1. Misspelling of mari.

From Old Catalan mare, from Latin māter, mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Occitan maire, French mère, Spanish madre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈma.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe

mare f (plural mares)

1. mother

   mare subrogada ― surrogate mother

2. uterus (of an animal)

   Synonym: úter

3. (by analogy) main course of a river or canal; channel
4. (Mallorca, playground games) home

• “mare” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mare”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mare” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mare” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• mari

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ma.re/

mare m

1. sea

• “mare” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Old Norse mara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɑ/

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareridt n

• “mare” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch mâre, from Old Dutch māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī (“story”).

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. (archaic) message, report, story

   Synonyms: bericht, tijding, verslag, verhaal

2. (archaic) rumor

   Synonym: gerucht

• vermaren

Probably from Medieval Latin mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Related to German Maar.

mare f (plural maren, diminutive maartje n)

1. depression in non-volcanic stone, compare maar

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

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

• nachtmare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of maren

• arme, rame

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 *móri. Doublet of mer inherited from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ/ ~ /mɑʁ/

mare f (plural mares)

1. puddle
2. pool

• pavé dans la mare

• “mare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• amer
• arme, armé
• rame, ramé

Learned borrowing from Latin mare (“sea”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarə]
• Hyphenation: ma‧rê

marê (first-person possessive mareku, second-person possessive maremu, third-person possessive marenya)

1. (astronomy, planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

• “mare” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin mare.

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!

• alto mare

From Latin māter.

mare f

1. mother

• mama

• mar (apocopic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: mà‧re

mare m (plural mari)

1. sea

• oceano (“ocean”)

• mare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• mare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Mera, arme, erma, mera, rame, rema

mare

1. Rōmaji transcription of まれ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈmärɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/, [ˈmäːre]

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

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

1. sea

   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum , (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis):

     Neptunum regnatorem marum

     Neptune, ruler of the seas

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.1:

     [facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.

     In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.

   • 13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum):

     Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.

   • 1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto :

     a marī usque ad mare

     from sea to sea

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• The ablative singular can be marī or mare.
• The genitive plural form marium, although regularly formed for an i-stem noun, is not attested in the corpus of classical texts. Marum is found only once, in a line from Gnaeus Naevius.
• The 5th/6th-century grammarian Priscian (Institutiones 7) says it is rarely used in the genitive plural, noting Caesar's use of maribus too. Similarly, the 4th-century grammarian Charisius claims it lacks both a genitive plural *marium and a *maribus form (but see the quotation from Julius Caesar above):

  "maria" tamen quamvis dicantur pluraliter, attamen nec "marium" nec "maribus" dicemus
  — although maria can be said in the plural, nevertheless we won't say marium nor maribus (Ars 1.11).

• pontus

• bimaris
• Hibēricum Mare
• marīnus
• maritimus

mare

1. ablative singular of mās

• 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

• mera

mare

1. water

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

From Old Dutch *māri, from Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

mâre

1. famous, famed
2. honoured, prestigious
3. well-known

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Dutch māri, from Proto-Germanic *mēriją, related to Etymology 1 above.

mâre f

1. fame, famousness
2. rumour
3. message

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar, mare
• Limburgish: maer

From Old Dutch *mara, from Proto-West Germanic *marā.

māre ?

1. mare, nightmare (evil spirit)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: maar
• Limburgish: maar

• “mare (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mare (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mare (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III

mare

1. water

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

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarə/

mare ?

1. sea (a vast mass of salty water)

• mathe (Jersey)
• mar (Sark)

From Old French mare.

mare f (plural mares)

1. (France, Guernsey) pool

   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[4], page 534:

     Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.

     If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

From Old Norse mara.

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• mareritt (“nightmare”)

• “mare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma

From Old Norse mara f.

• Mara, mara, maru, muru, murru (dialectal)

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

1. (folklore) a mare (an evil spirit)

• marekors (“pentagram”)
• marekvist (“a witch's broom”)
• mareritt (“nightmare”)
• marespjeld
• (probably derived) innmari

From Old Norse merja (“to crush”).

• mara (split or a-infinitive)

mare (present tense marar, past tense mara, past participle mara, passive infinitive marast, present participle marande, imperative mare/mar)

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• “mare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• arme, armé, erma, rame, rema

From Proto-West Germanic *marā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.re/

mare f (nominative plural maran)

1. mare (evil spirit thought to torment people in their sleep)

• *nihtmare

• English: mare

• mar

From Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit”).

mare m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mare)

1. evil; bad

mare

1. evilly; badly

mare

1. singular optative active of marati (“to die”)

mare

1. water

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

mare

1. inflection of marar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Most likely inherited from Latin maiōrem,^[1] accusative singular of Latin maior, albeit with an unusual (though not impossible) phonological evolution. Compare Aromanian mari, Megleno-Romanian mari, Dalmatian maur, Portuguese mor, Logudorese mere and Campidanese meri.^[2] An alternative, less likely theory proposes a derivation from Latin marem (“male”), with a semantic shift from "male" to "large", on an idiomatic basis (i.e. assuming that the expression "s-a făcut mare", meaning "[ 3rd-pers. sg. ] grew up" [literally "made themselves big"] initially referred exclusively to boys becoming men, and that it shifted over time to refer more broadly to physical growth, and by extension, being large). Other theories include a derivation from its homonym mare (meaning sea), and a substrate origin (either Proto-Albanian or Thracian).

mare m or f or n (plural mari)

1. big, large, great

   Antonym: mic

   O mare mare. ― A big sea.

2. great, mighty

   Un om mare. ― A great man.

• mări
• mărime
• mărinimos

• măreț

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

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.

• marin

• mari (“Campidanese”)

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

mare m (plural mares)

1. sea

mare

1. boy

• mars

Clipping of kumare, earlier variant of komadre.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾe/ [ˈmaː.ɾɛ]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: ma‧re

mare (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)

1. (slang) close female friend; sister

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kaibigan

   Coordinate terms: brad, pare, tol

   Ano'ng tsika, mare?

   What's the buzz, sister?

• “mare”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[5], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

mare

1. (archaic) cough

Use hota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾe/

mare

1. Alternative form of mari (“stone”)

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

mare

1. saliva

From Latin mater.

mare f (invariable)

1. mother

From Latin mare.

mare

1. sea

Borrowed from Arabic مارا.

mare m or f

1. marriage