marrar

Modification of earlier marrir (“to sadden”) < Frankish *marrijan < Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”). Influenced in form by errar (“to miss”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) /məˈra/
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) /maˈraɾ/

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marrí, past participle marrat)

1. (intransitive) to detour
2. (transitive) to miss, to take a wrong turn

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• marrada

• “marrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Attested since the 14th century. From West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb; hinder; impede”): compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan), German merren.[1]

• IPA^(key): /maˈraɾ/

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marrei, past participle marrado)

1. (transitive) to lack
   • 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     ben dicen alí que cando un home ten un bocado, nunca lle marran amigos. Dou ó Demo a casta deles Si non sirven para máis.

     wisely they say that a man which has food never is short of friends. I send to hell their kind if they are good for nothing else

   • 1846, Vicente Turnes, Aos augustos desposorios de Isabel II:

     Decote acarón da casa,
     Vemos cousas á ó revés;
     E non marran enxangadas
     Que nos fan doer as siés.

     Daily by our house
     We see thing upside down
     And there's no lack of jams
     that make our temples hurt

2. (intransitive) to miss, to fail
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC:

     meteu mão a espada, e en coydandoo de matar, marroo e doulle ẽno cavalo

     He draw the sword, and while trying to kill him, he missed and hit the horse

   • 1436, Xesús Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 404:

     do dia que a dar feita e posta ena ágoa, que seja vista ata triinta dias primeiros sigentes por los ditos ofiçiáas se algua cousa en ela marra

     from the day [the ship] is finished and launched into the water, it should be verified by the aforementioned officials for as much as the thirty following days to see if something fails

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• marra (“lack, shortage”)

• “marrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “marr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “marrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “marrar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “marrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “marrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• marrir (obsolete)

From Proto-Germanic *marzijaną.

• IPA^(key): /maˈraɾ/ [maˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧rrar

marrar (first-person singular present marro, first-person singular preterite marré, past participle marrado)

1. (transitive) to miss
2. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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• extrañar

• “marrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014