marquess

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.kwɪs/
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• US: /ˈmɑɹ.kwɪs/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AA1 R K W AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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See marquis for etymology. Note also that marquess is very unusual in the English language in that it ends in -ess but is a masculine term. The title is granted only to males (the female equivalent is marchioness).

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَرْكِيز (markīz) — title of nobility
• Armenian: մարկիզ (markiz) — title of nobility
• Azerbaijani: markiz — title of nobility
• Belarusian: маркі́з (markíz) — title of nobility
• Breton: markiz — title of nobility
• Bulgarian: марки́з (markíz) — title of nobility
• Catalan: marquès — title of nobility
• Chinese Mandarin: 侯爵 (hóujué) — title of nobility
• Czech: markýz — title of nobility
• Danish: markis — title of nobility
• Dutch: markies — title of nobility
• Esperanto: markizo — title of nobility
• Estonian: markii — title of nobility
• Faroese: markgreivi — title of nobility
• Finnish: markiisi — title of nobility
• French: marquis — title of nobility
• Middle French: marquis — title of nobility
• Middle French: marchis — title of nobility
• Georgian: მარკიზი (marḳizi) — title of nobility
• German: Marquis — title of nobility
• German: Markgraf — title of nobility
• Greek: μαρκήσιος (markísios) — title of nobility
• Hungarian: márki — title of nobility
• Hungarian: őrgróf — title of nobility
• Icelandic: markgreifi — title of nobility
• Indonesian: tumenggung — title of nobility
• Irish: marcas — title of nobility
• Italian: marchese — title of nobility
• Italian: margravio — title of nobility
• Japanese: 侯爵 (kōshaku) — title of nobility
• Khmer: ឧកញ៉ា (okɲaa) — title of nobility
• Khmer: ពញា (pɲie) — title of nobility
• Korean: 후작 (hujak) — title of nobility
• Latin: marchensis — title of nobility
• Latin: marchiō — title of nobility
• Latin: marchisus — title of nobility
• Latvian: marķīzs — title of nobility
• Latvian: markgrāfs — title of nobility
• Lithuanian: markizas — title of nobility
• Macedonian: марки́з (markíz) — title of nobility
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠣ (heo) — title of nobility
• Māori: mākuihi — title of nobility
• Middle English: marquis — title of nobility
• Middle English: markis — title of nobility
• Norman: martchis — title of nobility
• Norwegian Bokmål: marki — title of nobility
• Norwegian Nynorsk: marki — title of nobility
• Old English: eorl — title of nobility
• Persian: مارکی (mârki) — title of nobility
• Polish: markiz — title of nobility
• Portuguese: marquês — title of nobility
• Romanian: marchiz — title of nobility
• Russian: марки́з (markíz) — title of nobility
• Serbo-Croatian: маркиз — title of nobility
• Serbo-Croatian: markiz — title of nobility
• Slovak: markíz — title of nobility
• Slovene: markiz — title of nobility
• Spanish: marqués — title of nobility
• Swedish: markis — title of nobility
• Swedish: markgreve — title of nobility
• Tagalog: markes — title of nobility
• Thai: มาร์ควิส — title of nobility
• Turkish: marki — title of nobility
• Ottoman Turkish: ماركی (marki) — title of nobility
• Ukrainian: маркі́з (markíz) — title of nobility
• Uzbek: markiz — title of nobility
• Vietnamese: hầu tước — title of nobility