mar

Meanings

1. To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

1. A blemish.

1. Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).

1. Alternative form of mayor and mair.

1. Abbreviation of March.

1. An earldom in the Scottish peerage.

1. A title of respect in Syriac, given to all saints and also used before the Christian names of bishops.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mar (“March”).

1. Initialism of modified aspect ratio.

1. Abbreviation of maroon (an eye color).
2. Initialism of missing at random.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).