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marre

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See also: marr, mearh, marra, merr, marré, märr, marrë, and märra

English

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Verb

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marre (third-person singular simple present marres, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mar.
    • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
      For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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See marrë (and marrtë).

Noun

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márre f (plural márre, definite márrja, definite plural márret)

  1. shame
    Synonym: turp
  2. disgrace, dishonor
    Synonym: çnderim
    Antonyms: nder, nderim
  3. foolery, opaqueness, turpitude
    Synonyms: budallallëk, patejdukshmëri, poshtërsi
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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin marra.

Noun

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marre f (plural marres)

  1. a sort of hoe (gardening tool)

Etymology 2

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Probably related to Old French marrir "frustrate," but possibly instead to Old French merelle "attendance token, counting token" in the sense of "part due" and thus "to have enough."

Adverb

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marre

  1. (colloquial) enough
Derived terms
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Verb

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marre

  1. inflection of marrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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marre

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

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmar.re/
  • Rhymes: -arre
  • Hyphenation: màr‧re

Noun

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marre f

  1. plural of marra

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁi, (Portugal) -aʁɨ
  • Hyphenation: mar‧re

Verb

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marre

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

Spanish

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Verb

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marre

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