مار

From Classical Syriac ܡܪܝ (mār(ī)), the first-person singular possessed form of ܡܪܐ (mārā, “lord, master”).

• IPA^(key): /maːr/

مَار • (mār) m

1. (Christianity) Lord; Saint; Mar (honorific title for a man of religion, most often a saint)
   • Matthew 7:21:

     لَيْسَ كُلُّ مَنْ يَقُولُ لِي: يَا مَار! يَا مَار! يَدْخُلُ مَلَكُوتَ السَّمَاوَاتِ، بَلْ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ بِإِرَادَةِ أَبِي الَّذِي فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ

     laysa kullu man yaqūlu lī: yā mār! yā mār! yadḵulu malakūta s-samāwāti, bal man yaʿmalu bi-ʾirādati ʾabī llaḏī fī s-samāwāti.

     Not everyone who says to me, O Lord! O Lord! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

• قديس (qiddīs) (for saints)

Derived from the active participle of مَرَّ (marra, “to pass, to stroll by”).

• IPA^(key): /maːrr/

مَارّ • (mārr) (feminine مَارَّة (mārra), masculine plural مَارُّونَ (mārrūna), feminine plural مَارَّات (mārrāt))

1. passing

   الْمَارّ ذِكْرُهُ (al-mārr ḏikruhu)— the above-mentioned, the aforesaid, the above

2. going by, walking past, riding past, going across, walking, transient
3. going on foot

مَارّ • (mārr) m (plural مَارُّون (mārrūn) or مَارَّة (mārra))

1. passer-by, pedestrian, walker, stroller

• IPA^(key): /maː.ra/

مَارَ • (māra) I, non-past يَمُورُ‎ (yamūru)

1. to budge, to move forth, to rise across the surface, to fluctuate, to undergo commotion
   • 2018 September 10, “ar: "إعصاران نادران" في وقت واحد يثيران قلقا عالميا”, in Sky News Arabia‎:

     ولا تحدث الأعاصير في العادة بشكل متزامن في المحيطين، فحين يمور المحيط الهادئ بالعاصفة يكون المحيط الأطلسي هادئا".

     Typhoons don’t usually appear simultaneously in the two oceans: When the Pacific Ocean is moved by a storm the Atlantic Ocean is calm.

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “مار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 220
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1232

مار • (már)

1. snake
2. serpent

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭠𐭥 (mār).

مار (mar)

1. snake

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر, Baluchi مات (mát), Pashto مور (mor), Ossetian мад (mad), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā.

مار (mâr)

1. mother

Borrowed from Persian مار (mâr, “snake”).

مار • (mar)

1. snake, any reptile of the suborder Serpentes

   Synonyms: حیه (hayye), ییلان (yılan)

2. piece or lock of curling hair, ringlet
3. shred, particle, small and scattered fragment
4. title of the governor of Gharchistan, in Persia

• Turkish: mar

Borrowed from Arabic مَارّ (mārr, “passing”).

مار • (mar)

1. passing, that passes, transient

• Turkish: mar

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭠𐭥 (mār), from Old Iranian *māra-. A derivation from *marθra- suffers from phonetic problems.

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• Rhymes: -âr

مار • (mâr) (plural مارها (mâr-hâ))

1. snake
2. serpent