marra

• marrow

From Old Norse margr.

marra (plural marras)

1. (West Cumbrian [Predominantly], Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

   Cheers marra!

   Alreet marra?

   How's it garn marra?

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

• Homophones: marras, marrât

marra

1. third-person singular past historic of marrer

• IPA^(key): /ˈmara̝/

From Latin marra (“hoe”).

marra f (plural marras)

1. maul, sledgehammer
2. (archaic) hoe
   • 1412, José García Oro (ed.), 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

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 (ed.), 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” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “marra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “marra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “marra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “marra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarːa/
• Rhymes: -arːa

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

1. to creak

From Latin marra

marra f (plural marre)

1. hoe
2. fluke (of an anchor)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ra/

marra f (genitive marrae); first declension

1. hoe
2. hook, weeding-hook

First-declension noun.

• 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, 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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ʁa/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ra

marra f (plural marras)

1. boldness; courage

• coragem, valentia

• na marra
• marrento

marra

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of marrar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of marrar

marra

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of marrar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of marrar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of marrar.

• 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.