mari

From the subjective of mára, reanalysed as a feminine noun.

• IPA^(key): /maˈri/ [mʌˈɾɪ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri

marí f (singulative núm m)

1. alternative form of mára
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:2 [Ruth 1:2]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎^[2]:

     Too waqdi Alimelek deqsita num, lab-xayloh nammay kee barra gabat hayya heeh, Yuudâ-baaxok Beetlacam deqsitta magaalak Mooyab deqsita marih baaxo fan dulah gexe.

     So a man called Elimelek, he went together with two sons and a wife, he migrated from a town called Betlehem in Judea to the country of the nation called Moab.

Declension of marí
absolutive	marí
predicative	marí
subjective	marí
genitive	marí
Postpositioned forms l-case maríl k-case marík t-case marít h-case maríh

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /maˈri/ [mʌˈɾɪ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri

marí

1. subjective of mára

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 199

• mare

Probably from an irregular shortened form of maior, maiōrem (“bigger”); alternatively from Latin mās, marem (“male”), with a shift in meaning. Compare Megleno-Romanian mari and Romanian mare, and see there for a more detailed etymology.

mari (plural mãri or mar)

1. big, large, great

• njic

• mãrescu

• mare

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *um-ari.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾi/ [ˈma.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri

mári (plural marari, Basahan spelling ᜋᜍᜒ)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to come

   Synonym: madya

   Mari! (Mari digdi!)

   Come here!

From Proto-Finnic *marja.

mari (genitive marja, partitive marja)

1. berry
2. (uncountable) roe (eggs of fish)

Declension of mari (ÕS type 24u/padi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mari	marjad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	marja
genitive			marjade
partitive		marja	marju marjasid
illative		marja marjasse	marjadesse marjusse
inessive		marjas	marjades marjus
elative		marjast	marjadest marjust
allative		marjale	marjadele marjule
adessive		marjal	marjadel marjul
ablative		marjalt	marjadelt marjult
translative		marjaks	marjadeks marjuks
terminative		marjani	marjadeni
essive		marjana	marjadena
abessive		marjata	marjadeta
comitative		marjaga	marjadega

• kalamari

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑri/, [ˈmɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑri
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧ri

Borrowed from Eastern Mari мари (mari, “Mari person”).

mari

1. Mari (person)

   Synonyms: marilainen, (obsolete) tšermissi

2. Mari (language)

   Synonym: marin kieli

• niittymari
• vuorimari

• “mari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

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mari (informal)

1. marijuana

• Armi, Irma, Mira, Rami, armi, rami, rima

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁi/

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Inherited from Old French mari, from Latin marītus.

mari m (plural maris)

1. husband

• mari complaisant

• marier
• marié

• Louisiana Creole: mari

• époux
• femme
• épouse

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mari f (plural maris)

1. cannabis, marijuana

• “mari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• mira
• rami
• rima

From Latin māter, mātrem.

mari f (plural maris)

1. mother

• pari

• IPA^(key): /maɻi/

mari

1. aboriginal person

   Burrula nhama mari.

   There are many people.

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈmari/

mari (plural marinu)

1. spouse (husband or wife)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒri]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri
• Rhymes: -ri

mari (not comparable)

1. Mari (of or relating to Mari El, its people or language)

   Synonym: (dated) cseremisz

Some Uralic languages have two names, an exonym (external name, mostly of Russian origin) and an endonym (internal name, a self-denomination). These days normally the endonyms are preferred (similarly to Eskimo superseded by Inuit). In Hungarian, the terms are vogul superseded by manysi (“Mansi”), osztják, by hanti (“Khanty”), cseremisz, by mari (“Mari”), votják, by udmurt (“Udmurt”), zürjén, by komi (“Komi”), jurák, by nyenyec (“Nenets”), and lapp, by számi (“Sami”).

mari (countable and uncountable, plural marik)

1. Mari (person)
2. Mari (language)

   Synonym: (dated) cseremisz

• mari in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Inherited from Malay mari, from Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmari/ [ˈma.ri]
• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: ma‧ri

mari

1. to come here
2. let; let's

   Mari kita coba.

   Let's have a try.

mari

1. come on!

   Synonym: (informal) ayo

• “mari”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Hyphenation: mà‧ri

mari m

1. plural of mare
2. plural of maro

• Mira, armi, mira, rami, rima

mari

1. Rōmaji transcription of まり

mari

1. romanization of ꦩꦫꦶ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ri]

marī

1. dative singular of mās

marī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of mās

marī

1. dative/ablative singular of mare

marī

1. genitive singular of marum

mari

1. place for unhusked paddy
2. (anatomy) spleen

From French mari (“husband”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾi/

mari

1. husband.

• fenm
• épouz

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

• (schwa-variety, /a/-variety, Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈmari/ [ˈma.ri]
• Rhymes: -ari, -ri, -i
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri

mari (Jawi spelling ماري)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)
2. let’s (used to invite or suggest an action)

   Synonym: jom (coloquial)

mari (Jawi spelling ماري)

1. here (used with motion verbs to indicate direction or location)

   Coordinate term: sini

   Bawa parang ke mari.

   Bring the machete here.

• datang

mari (Jawi spelling ماري)

1. come on!

   Synonym: ayuh

   Synonym: jom (colloquial)

• ayuh

• > Indonesian: mari (inherited)
• → Negeri Sembilan Malay: maghih

• "mari" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

mari (Raguileo spelling)

Mapudungun cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mari     Ordinal : ?

1. ten

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /maɻi/

mari

1. younger sister

• karturra (avoidance speech)

• thurtu

• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Probably from an irregular shortened form of maior, maiōrem (“bigger”); alternatively from Latin mās, marem (“male”), with a shift in meaning. Compare Istro-Romanian mari, and Romanian mare, and see there for a more detailed etymology.

mari

1. big, large

• mic

From Latin mare. Compare Romanian mare, Megleno-Romanian amari.

mari f

1. sea

From Proto-West Germanic *mārī.

māri

1. famous

• Middle Dutch: mâre

• “māri (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Latin marītus.

• מרי (mry /⁠mari⁠/) (Judeo-French)

mari oblique singular, m (oblique plural maris, nominative singular maris, nominative plural mari)

1. husband
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Elyzabel, fille au roi de Hongrie:

     Sachiez, ce mes oncles m'esforce
     Que je preigne mari a force,
     Je m'enfuirai en aucun leu

     Know that if my uncle forces me
     To take a husband against my will
     I will flee to any place [but here]

• French: mari

see marrir

mari m

1. past participle of marir

mari m (oblique and nominative feminine singular marie)

1. alternative form of marri
   • late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 386, line 552:

     Mult ai le quer gref e marri.

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mari

1. inflection of marr:
   1. dative singular
   2. accusative plural

• IPA^(key): [maˈɾi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri

mari (noun form mari)

1. angry

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “mari”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 265, column 1

• IPA^(key): [marʲ]

mari

1. nominative/accusative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of mare

• mare

From Latin mare. Compare Italian mare.

mari

1. (Campidanese) sea

From Swahili mali, from Arabic مَال (māl).^[1]

marí class 9 (plural marí class 10)

1. money

From Latin mare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾi/
• Hyphenation: mà‧ri

mari m (plural mari)

1. sea

mari

1. to apply

   rooti-ga wax mari. - Apply something on the bread

From Eastern Mari мари (mari).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾi/ [ˈma.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: ma‧ri

mari m or f (masculine and feminine plural maris)

1. Mari

mari m or f by sense (plural maris)

1. Mari

• “mari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Cognate with Sahu maḏi (“stone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɾi/

mari

1. stone, rock

• mare

• Rusli Andi Atjo (2009), Kamus-Ternate Indonesia, 5 edition, Cikoro Trirasuandar
• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

mari

1. plural of mar

From Armenian մարի (mari).

mari f

1. female partridge

• Kocadag, Çeko (2010), “marî”, in Ferheng, Kirmanckî (Zazakî) - Kurmancî, Kurmancî - Kirmanckî (Zazakî), Berlin: Weşanên Komkar, →ISBN, page 814a
• Todd, Terry Lynn (2008), Brigitte Werner, editor, A Grammar of Dimili (also Known as Zaza)‎^[5], an electronic version of printed second edition (2002), Giessen: Forum Linguistik in Eurasien e.V., page 146a