mare

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɛə/
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• General-American: /mɛɚ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian: /meː/
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• New-Zealand: /meə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /miə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /meɹ/
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• /mɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• homophone: mere (cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: myrrh (fair–fur merger)
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• UK: /mɛə/
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• US: /mɛɚ/
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• homophone: mayor (in a number of dialects)
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• US: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
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• US: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
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• US: /ˈmɑɹ.i/
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• rhymes with -ɑɹi
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”). Cognates Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”).

Inherited from Middle English mare, from Old English mare (“nightmare, monster”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Doublet of mara. Cognates Akin to Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara (“incubus, nightmare”); also Old Irish Morrígan (“phantom queen”), Albanian merë (“horror”), Polish zmora (“nightmare”), Czech mura (“nightmare, moth”), Greek Μόρα (Móra).

Borrowed from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of maar and mere (“a body of standing water”).

See mayor.

188 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҽа́н (aĉán) — female horse
• Albanian: pelë — female horse
• Andi: ича (iča) — female horse
• Arabic: حِجْر (ḥijr) — female horse
• Arabic: فَرَس (faras) — female horse
• Arabic: فرس (faras) — female horse
• Arabic: عودة (ʕawda) — female horse
• Armenian: մատակ (matak) — female horse
• Armenian: զամբիկ (zambik) — female horse
• Aromanian: iapã — female horse
• Asturian: yegua — female horse
• Asturian: burra — female horse
• Avar: гӏала (ʻala) — female horse
• Azerbaijani: madyan — female horse
• Bashkir: бейә (beyə) — female horse
• Basque: behor — female horse
• Bats: ჴადალ (qadal) — female horse
• Belarusian: кабы́ла (kabýla) — female horse
• Breton: kazeg — female horse
• Bulgarian: коби́ла (kobíla) — female horse
• Burmese: မြင်းမ (mrang:ma.) — female horse
• Buryat: гүүн (güün) — female horse
• Catalan: euga — female horse
• Catalan: egua — female horse
• Chechen: кхаьл (qäl) — female horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 騍馬 /骒马 (kèmǎ) — female horse
• Chinese Mandarin: 母馬 /母马 (mǔmǎ) — female horse
• Chuvash: кӗсре (kĕsre) — female horse
• Crimean Tatar: baytal — female horse
• Czech: klisna — female horse
• Czech: kobyla — female horse
• Danish: hoppe — female horse
• Dutch: merrie — female horse
• East Yugur: gün — female horse
• Erzya: эльде (elde) — female horse
• Esperanto: ĉevalino — female horse
• Fala: egua (Lagarteiru, Mañegu) — female horse
• Fala: yegua (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) — female horse
• Faroese: ryssa — female horse
• Faroese: mer — female horse
• Finnish: tamma — female horse
• Franco-Provençal: èga — female horse
• Franco-Provençal: cavala — female horse
• French: jument — female horse
• North Frisian: Ök — female horse
• Galician: egua — female horse
• Galician: egoa — female horse
• Galician: besta — female horse
• Galician: brégola — female horse
• Galician: faca — female horse
• Galician: facaneia — female horse
• Galician: marzoa — female horse
• Georgian: ფაშატი (pašaṭi) — female horse
• Georgian: ჭაკი (č̣aḳi) — female horse
• Georgian: ხრდალი (xrdali) — female horse
• German: Stute — female horse
• German: Mähre — female horse
• German: Pferdeweibchen — female horse
• Greek: φοράδα (foráda) — female horse
• Ancient Greek: ἵππος (híppos) — female horse
• Paraguayan Guarani: kavaju kuña — female horse
• Hebrew: סוסה — female horse
• Hebrew: סוּסָה (susá) — female horse
• Hindi: घोड़ी (ghoṛī) — female horse
• Hungarian: kanca — female horse
• Icelandic: hryssa — female horse
• Icelandic: meri — female horse
• Ido: kavalino — female horse
• Ingush: кхал (qal) — female horse
• Interlingua: cavalla — female horse
• Irish: láir — female horse
• Old Irish: láir — female horse
• Italian: cavalla — female horse
• Japanese: 牝馬 (hinba) — female horse
• Kabuverdianu: égua — female horse
• Kalmyk: гүн (gün) — female horse
• Kazakh: бие (bie) — female horse
• Khakas: пии (pii) — female horse
• Korean: 암말 (ammal) — female horse
• Central Kurdish: مایین (mayîn) — female horse
• Northern Kurdish: mahîn — female horse
• Northern Kurdish: mehîn — female horse
• Kyrgyz: бээ (bee) — female horse
• Latgalian: kēve — female horse
• Latin: equa — female horse
• Latvian: ķēve — female horse
• Lithuanian: kumelė — female horse
• Low German: Tööt — female horse
• Macedonian: ко́била (kóbila) — female horse
• Malay: kuda betina — female horse
• Malay: kuda betina dewasa — female horse
• Maltese: debba — female horse
• Māori: hoiho uwha — female horse
• Māori: hōiho uha — female horse
• Megleno-Romanian: iapă — female horse
• Mongolian: гүү (güü) — female horse
• Navajo: łį́į́tsaʼii — female horse
• Norman: jeunment — female horse
• Norwegian Bokmål: hoppe — female horse
• Norwegian Bokmål: merr — female horse
• Norwegian Bokmål: hunnhest — female horse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hoppe — female horse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: merr — female horse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hohest — female horse
• Occitan: èga — female horse
• Occitan: cavala — female horse
• Old Church Slavonic: кобꙑла (kobyla) — female horse
• Old English: mīere — female horse
• Old Norse: hryssa — female horse
• Old Norse: merr — female horse
• Old Norse: jalda — female horse
• Ossetian: ефс (efs) — female horse
• Pashto: اسپه (aspa) — female horse
• Persian: مادیان (mâdiyân) — female horse
• Plautdietsch: Kobbel — female horse
• Polish: klacz — female horse
• Polish: kobyła — female horse
• Portuguese: égua — female horse
• Punjabi: ਘੋੜੀ (ghoṛī) — female horse
• Romani: grasni — female horse
• Romanian: iapă — female horse
• Russian: кобы́ла (kobýla) — female horse
• Scots: meir — female horse
• Scottish Gaelic: làir — female horse
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀била — female horse
• Serbo-Croatian: kòbila — female horse
• Shor: пей — female horse
• Sikkimese: རྒོདམ (rgodm) — female horse
• Slovak: kobyla — female horse
• Slovene: kobíla — female horse
• Lower Sorbian: kobyła — female horse
• Upper Sorbian: kobła — female horse
• Spanish: yegua — female horse
• Spanish: jaca — female horse
• Swedish: märr — female horse
• Swedish: sto — female horse
• Tajik: модиён (modiyon) — female horse
• Taos: yàwoʼóna — female horse
• Tatar: бия (biyä) — female horse
• Telugu: ఆడగుర్రం (āḍagurraṁ) — female horse
• Telugu: బడబ (baḍaba) — female horse
• Turkish: kısrak — female horse
• Ottoman Turkish: قیصراق (kısrak) — female horse
• Ottoman Turkish: یوند (yund) — female horse
• Tuvan: бе (be) — female horse
• Tuvan: кызырак (kızırak) — female horse
• Ukrainian: коби́ла (kobýla) — female horse
• Uyghur: بايتال (baytal) — female horse
• Uyghur: بىيە (biye) — female horse
• Uzbek: biya — female horse
• Vietnamese: ngựa cái — female horse
• Vilamovian: köwuł — female horse
• Volapük: jijevod — female horse
• Volapük: jijeval — female horse
• Walloon: cavale — female horse
• Welsh: caseg — female horse
• Wolof: wajan wi — female horse
• Yakut: биэ (bie) — female horse
• Bulgarian: зъл дух (zǎl duh) — evil spirit
• Czech: můra — evil spirit
• Danish: mare — evil spirit
• Finnish: painajainen — evil spirit
• Finnish: mara — evil spirit
• Finnish: ajajainen — evil spirit
• German: Mahr — evil spirit
• German: Alb — evil spirit
• German: Nachtalb — evil spirit
• German: Drude — evil spirit
• Icelandic: mara — evil spirit
• Italian: incubo — evil spirit
• Norwegian: mara — evil spirit
• Old Norse: mara — evil spirit
• Polish: mara — evil spirit
• Slovak: mora — evil spirit
• Swedish: mara — evil spirit
• Finnish: painajainen — frustrating or terrible experience
• Italian: incubo — frustrating or terrible experience
• Chinese Cantonese: 月海 (jyut6 hoi2) — planetology: dark circular plain
• Chinese Mandarin: 月海 (yuèhǎi) — planetology: dark circular plain
• Finnish: meri — planetology: dark circular plain
• German: Mare — planetology: dark circular plain
• Indonesian: mare — planetology: dark circular plain
• Indonesian: maria — planetology: dark circular plain
• Italian: mare — planetology: dark circular plain
• Portuguese: mar — planetology: dark circular plain
• Russian: мо́ре (móre) — planetology: dark circular plain
• Turkish: deniz — planetology: dark circular plain
• Vietnamese: biển Mặt Trăng — planetology: dark circular plain