marr

Pronunciation: [mar]

“marr” is an Albanian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

to take, grab (someone/something by hand)
to hold, carry, pick up (something)
to drag (someone by the arm, hand, hair); to pull (someone’s arm, hand, hair); to set/take off; to kidnap someone (hostage/slave/bride)
to provide, profit (for oneself); to equip oneself; to make (something) mine
to receive (salary, diploma, patent, title, news, message, wish, blessings, permission)
to take power/rule over, possess, own, win
to borrow
to acquire, obtain (knowledge, lesson, experience)
to eat; to drink, swallow (pills), suck; to take (drugs, pills, medicine)
(it/they) require(s), will
to take someone as one's wife/bride/partner; to make someone to one's wife/bride
to cut, trim, remove something (from hair, body, etc.)
to agree, take something into consideration
(it/they) takes over (emotions, feelings, condition, desire, health, illness)
(it/they) contain(s), fit(s) (an amount)
(it/they) summarize(s); include(s) (law, etc.)
to understand, judge (someone/something); to call (something/someone) out
to go (direction), take a route; to climb/got up (somewhere)
(it/they) walks towards, reach(es) (development)
(it/they) starts, begin(s) (also as a semi-auxiliary verb)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mar(en)-, from Proto-Indo-European *merh₂- (“to pack (up)”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”), cognate with Ancient Greek μείρομαι (meíromai, “receive as one's portion”), Latin mereō, merx and Hittite 𒈥𒀝 (mark, “to divide a sacrifice”). Alternatively derived from Proto-Albanian *marna, a deverbative from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ (“hand”), and compared…

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