marra

• marrow

From Old Norse margr.

marra (plural marras)

1. (West Cumbria, Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

   Cheers marra!

   Alreet marra?

   Hoo's it gaan marra?

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “marra”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “marra”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “Marra”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

• Arram

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• IPA^(key): /mara/, [ma.ra]

marra inan

1. line (continuous mark)
2. border

• “marra”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “marra”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Homophones: marras, marrât

marra

1. third-person singular past historic of marrer

• IPA^(key): /ˈmara̝/

From Latin marra (“hoe”), probably from a Semitic language, ultimately from Akkadian. Compare Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marrā, “hoe, shovel”), Arabic مَرّ (marr, “shovel, spade”), and Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru).

marra f (plural marras)

1. maul, sledgehammer
2. (archaic) hoe
   • 1412, José García Oro, editor, Galicia en la Baja Edad Media. Iglesia, señorío y nobleza, Santiago: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 238:

     que page por esta medida cada lavrador que labrar con dous boys des e oyto medidas arrapadas e o que lavrar con huun boy nove medidas et o que lavrar con amarra tres medidas

     each peasant should pay by this measure: the one ploughing with two oxen, eighteen levelled measures; the one ploughing with one, nine measures; the one ploughing with a hoe, three

Deverbal from marrar (“to lack; to miss”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”).

marra f (plural marras)

1. (dated) lack, shortage
   • 1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 206:

     que ouuo senpre de custume de non meter vinno de fora parte en esta vila et saluo que os visinnos da villa ouueren de sua lauoria et sua marra

     because it was the custom of this town not to introduce wine from the outside, except if the neighbours needed it and lacked it

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “marra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarːa/
• Rhymes: -arːa

marra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative marraði, supine marrað)

1. to creak

From Latin marra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/
• Rhymes: -arra
• Hyphenation: màr‧ra

marra f (plural marre)

1. hoe
2. fluke (of an anchor)

• smarrare
• smarratura

Uncertain. Possibly from Semitic via Ancient Greek μάρρον (márrhon); compare Akkadian 𒄑𒈥 (marru [^GEŠMAR]), Classical Syriac ܡܪܐ (marra), and Arabic مَرّ (marr).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/, [ˈmärːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/, [ˈmärːä]

marra f (genitive marrae); first declension

1. hoe
2. hook, weeding-hook

First-declension noun.

• Corsican: marra, merra
• French: marre
• Galician: marra
• Italian: marra

• “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “marra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• marra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “marra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “marra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Italian marra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/

marra f (plural marar, paucal marriet)

1. mattock, pickaxe
2. (nautical) fluke (of an anchor)

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *marra.

• IPA^(key): /mara/

marra

1. wing
2. flipper

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: mar‧ra

marra f (plural marras)

1. boldness; courage

   Synonyms: coragem, valentia

• na marra
• marrento

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

marra

1. inflection of marrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• mura
• murra

Compare Gamilaraay mara.

marra

1. hand

marra

1. hand
2. five

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.
• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Indigenous Numbers.