marre

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

English

Verb

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.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

See marrë (and marrtë).

Noun

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

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin marra.

Noun

marre f (plural marres)

  1. a sort of hoe (gardening tool)

Etymology 2

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

marre

  1. (colloquial) enough
Derived terms

Verb

marre

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

marre

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

marre f

  1. plural of marra

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈma.ʁi/ [ˈma.hi]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈma.ʁi/ [ˈma.χi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈma.ʁe/ [ˈma.he]

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

Verb

marre

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

Spanish

Verb

marre

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