mark

field (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals)

head

mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite marker)

marken (definite singular)
marker (indefinite plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
marken (definite nominative singular)
marker (indefinite nominative plural)
markerne (definite nominative plural)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
markens (definite genitive singular)
markers (genitive indefinite plural)
markernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse mǫrk (“wilderness”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (“border land, marches”).


mark

(historical) mark (unit of currency, in Denmark from the Middle Ages until 1875, in Germany and Finland until 2002)

(historical) mark (unit of weight, especially of precious metals, equivalent to half a pound or 8 ounces)

head

mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite mark)

marken (definite singular)
mark (indefinite plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
marken (definite nominative singular)
mark (indefinite nominative plural)
markene (definite nominative plural)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
markens (definite genitive singular)
marks (genitive indefinite plural)
markenes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (currency), originally the same word as the previous one.


mark

(chiefly historical) a march, a mark (border region)

From Middle Dutch marke, from Old Dutch [Term?].


mark

(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.

(obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.

Boundary, land within a boundary.
A boundary; a border or frontier.

Boundary, land within a boundary.
A boundary-post or fence.

I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.

1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:

A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.

A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.

There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.

(archaic) A type of small region or principality.

Boundary, land within a boundary.
A type of small region or principality.

(historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.

depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

(heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.

An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.

Characteristic, sign, visible impression.

An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.

A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.

there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.

1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:

Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip[…].

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.

Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “III.iv.2.6”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.

With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.

But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329:

The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.

1876, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary:

A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.

A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.

(obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image.

I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.

A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).

What mark did you get in your history test?

A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.

A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.

To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:

(heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.

A target for shooting at with a projectile.

A target for shooting at with a projectile.

I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark.

An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.

An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.

Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location.

2009, Michael Benson, Cons and Frauds, Infobase, →ISBN, page 21:

[Xi Jinping] asked for Trump's personal attention to the issue, probably figuring he had identified his mark and wasn't going to let him get away.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 313:

Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli): How are you gonna make it in life if you're this big a mark?
Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco): I'm not a mark.

2022 December 11, Mike White, “Arrivederci”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 7, via HBO:

(informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person.

A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his[…].

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

Indicator of position, objective etc.
The female genitals.

(Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.

Rugby football; Australian rules football; Rugby football; Australian rules football

(sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.

The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.

Indicator of position, objective etc.
A score for a sporting achievement.

A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.

1871, Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report, volume 17, page 102:

An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.

Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.

(cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.

The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.

(product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.

The model number of a device; a device model.

to be within the mark

to come up to the mark

Indicator of position, objective etc.
Limit or standard of action or fact.

In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.

1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus:

Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.

Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.

patricians of mark

a fellow of no mark

Indicator of position, objective etc.
Preeminence; high position.

(logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.

A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.

(nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)

His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.

(heading) Attention.
(archaic) Attention, notice.

in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.

1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:

Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)

(heading) Attention.
(obsolete) Regard; respect.

But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark

1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling slang) Condescending label of a wrestling fan who refuses to believe that pro wrestling is predetermined and/or choreographed.

marks (plural)
marke (alternative)
merk (alternative)
marc (alternative)

→ Bengali: মার্কা (marka)

→ Cantonese: 嘜 /唛 (mak¹, maak¹)

→ Japanese: マーク (māku)

→ Korean: 마크 (makeu)

hopu taureke

catching a ball on the full to earn a free kick in such games as Rugby, Australian Rules, etc.)

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
Cognates
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margo (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).

der

Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”)

Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”)

cog

Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”)


mark

to mark a box or bale of merchandise

to mark clothing with one's name

[I]f you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 10:

Her son wrote badly, as if fearful of marking the page at all.

1969, William Trevor, chapter 11, in Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, Penguin, published 1973, page 177:

To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).

See where this pencil has marked the paper.

The floor was marked with wine and blood.

Those Wheels returning ne’er shall mark the Plain;

1717, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 3, Book 12, p. 229:

Advertisements are from time to time inserted, stating that slaves have escaped […] marked with the lash, branded with red-hot irons, the initials of their master’s name burned into their flesh;

1855, Frederick Douglass, “speech given on 12 May, 1846. Appendix.”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 410:

To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).

The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.

1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, published 1976, page 104:

What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?

1998, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents, New York: Seven Stories Press, page 279:

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

(figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).

To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).

She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.

Some animals mark their territory by urinating.

To create an indication of (a location).

This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.

A bell marked the end of visiting hours.

And where the jolly Troop [of elves and fairies] had led the round
The Grass unbidden rose, and mark’d the Ground:

1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, page 479:

She gave her an answer which marked her contempt, and instantly left the room,

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 4, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 49:

[…] the cloth was laid for him […] and a plate laid thereon to mark that the table was retained,

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 58, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 528:

[…] the lazy circling vultures marked the Hill of Execution, which was littered with human bones and scavenged by hyaenas.

1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 6, p. 61:

Her forehead, lashed deep with lines, marked her fifty-six years.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, Part 1, p. 16:

To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.

Prices are marked on individual items.

In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.

[…] it was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth Day I think, as well as my poor wooden Calendar would reckon; for I markt all upon the Post still;

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 219:

“What does the clock mark now?”
“Eight minutes to seven.”

1875, Benjamin Farjeon, At the Sign of the Silver Flagon, New York: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 84:

To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.

[…] on opening it [the handkerchief], I saw an S mark’d in one of the corners.

1768, Laurence Sterne, “Maria”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume 2, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, page 175:

I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it.

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, Book 3, Chapter 10, p. 220:

[…] I was testing a stack of old whitewalls, dunking them in the water and marking a yellow chalk circle around each leak.

1988, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 6, in The Bean Trees, New York: HarperCollins, page 82:

The national holiday is marked by fireworks.

It was only four thirty but Gerald was marking his guests’ arrival with a Pimm’s, […]

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN, page 276:

To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.

His courage and energy marked him as a leader.

[…] the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,

1815, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 134:

The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.

1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 5, in Kim, London: Macmillan, published 1902, page 115:

His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.

1968, Bessie Head, chapter 1, in When Rain Clouds Gather, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, published 2013, page 1:

Enquiring about the movement of trains—even if you were a passenger on one—could mark you as a saboteur.

2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House, Prologue:

(of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).

To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).

The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]

1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 113:

(of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.

To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.

When a king, hath once markt for his hate, / A man inferior; […] / […] euermore, he rakes vp in his brest, / Brands of quicke anger;

[1611?], Homer, “The First Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 28:

[…] I know now that humankind marks certain people for death.

1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, New York: Viking, page 230:

(of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.

To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.

The creek marks the boundary between the two farms.

That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.

[…] we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus.

1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 16, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 172:

Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.

1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 3, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 17:

My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry.

2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straux, Giroux, page 93:

To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.

[…] he still retained that simple, unostentatious elegance, that marks the man of real fashion—

1818, Susan Ferrier, chapter 18, in Marriage, volume 3, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 264:

“Ah,” replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness which […] marked all his deportment,

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 9, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 145:

[…] Cyril’s attitude to his mother was marked by a certain benevolent negligence

1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, New York: Modern Library, published 1911, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 487:

To be typical or characteristic of (something).

Indeed the smoke was such they scarce could mark
Their friends from foes,

1823 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos VI.—VII.—and VIII., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto VIII, stanza 130, page 313:

Despite their obvious differences these poets had a common view of life which marks them from their predecessors […]

1943, Maurice Bowra, chapter 1, in The Heritage of Symbolism, London: Macmillan, published 1954, page 2:

Each day was so like the day before, and Christmas Day, when it came, would not have anything to mark it from all the others.

1983, Elizabeth George Speare, chapter 24, in The Sign of the Beaver,, New York: Dell, published 1984, page 127:

To distinguish (one person or thing from another).

Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.

More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before:

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 1]:

I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:37:

When they had passed out of the wood into the pasture-land beyond, Ruth once more turned to mark him.

1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 5, in Ruth, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 137:

“When Wolsey came down, I said, mark him, he’s a sharp fellow. […]”

2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: Henry Holt, Part 6, Chapter 2, p. 522:

(dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.

dated except in the phrase "mark my words"

To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.

Some of them [the Animals] coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their Form.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 161:

He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness, for he coloured directly and turned his head away.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 53, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 525:

1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499,
[…] it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.

Helm had a great horn, and soon it was marked that before he sallied forth he would blow a blast upon it that echoed in the Deep;

1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1965, Appendix A, pp. 347-348:

(dated) To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.

To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.

I marked my man, standing on the catwalk, and waited to throw [my javelin] till he started to climb inboard before they rammed.

1956, Mary Renault, chapter 22, in The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, page 268:

To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.

The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.

Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.

2024 May 15, 'Industry Insider', “Labour's plan for the railway”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 68:

(Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).

To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).

to mark a student absent.

To record that (someone) has a particular status.

to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game

Dan was to mark while the doctor and I played [billiards].

1869, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in The Innocents Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 116:

(transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.

To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.

(sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.

(golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.

To put a marker in the place of one's ball.

(singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.

en-verb

mark (third-person singular simple present marks, present participle marking, simple past and past participle marked)

marks (present singular third-person)
marking (participle present)
marked (participle past)
marked (past)
marke (alternative)
merk (alternative)
marc (alternative)

begehen

celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind

segnare

indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.)


mark

(historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.

As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.

1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:

(historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.

George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’

1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 42:

He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 167:

(historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.

(historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.

մարկ

units of currency notionally equivalent to a mark of silver

From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.


mark

Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.

1928 November, “Reviews”, in The Occult Review, volume XLVIII, number 5, London: Rider & Co., page 356:

(historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.

mark (plural)
marks (plural)
marke (alternative)
merk (alternative)
marc (alternative)

From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.


mark

Mark time, mark!

Forward, mark!

(imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.

An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.

marke (alternative)
merk (alternative)
marc (alternative)


mark

margi (genitive)
marki (partitive)
mark (nominative singular)
margid (nominative plural)
mark (accusative nominative singular)
margid (accusative nominative plural)
margi (accusative genitive singular)
margid (accusative genitive plural)
margi (genitive singular)
markide (genitive plural)
marki (partitive singular)
marke (partitive plural)
markisid (partitive plural)
marki (illative singular)
margisse (illative singular)
markidesse (illative plural)
margesse (illative plural)
margis (inessive singular)
markides (inessive plural)
marges (inessive plural)
margist (elative singular)
markidest (elative plural)
margest (elative plural)
margile (allative singular)
markidele (allative plural)
margele (allative plural)
margil (adessive singular)
markidel (adessive plural)
margel (adessive plural)
margilt (ablative singular)
markidelt (ablative plural)
margelt (ablative plural)
margiks (singular translative)
markideks (plural translative)
margeks (plural translative)
margini (singular terminative)
markideni (plural terminative)
margina (essive singular)
markidena (essive plural)
margita (abessive singular)
markideta (abessive plural)
margiga (comitative singular)
markidega (comitative plural)


mark

marga (genitive)
marka (partitive)
mark (nominative singular)
margad (nominative plural)
mark (accusative nominative singular)
margad (accusative nominative plural)
marga (accusative genitive singular)
margad (accusative genitive plural)
marga (genitive singular)
markade (genitive plural)
marka (partitive singular)
marke (partitive plural)
markasid (partitive plural)
marka (illative singular)
margasse (illative singular)
markadesse (illative plural)
margesse (illative plural)
margas (inessive singular)
markades (inessive plural)
marges (inessive plural)
margast (elative singular)
markadest (elative plural)
margest (elative plural)
margale (allative singular)
markadele (allative plural)
margele (allative plural)
margal (adessive singular)
markadel (adessive plural)
margel (adessive plural)
margalt (ablative singular)
markadelt (ablative plural)
margelt (ablative plural)
margaks (singular translative)
markadeks (plural translative)
margeks (plural translative)
margani (singular terminative)
markadeni (plural terminative)
margana (essive singular)
markadena (essive plural)
margata (abessive singular)
markadeta (abessive plural)
margaga (comitative singular)
markadega (comitative plural)


mark

fo-noun

mark f (genitive singular markar, plural markir)

markar (genitive singular)
markir (plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
markin (definite nominative singular)
markir (indefinite nominative plural)
markirnar (definite nominative plural)
mark (accusative indefinite singular)
markina (accusative definite singular)
markir (accusative indefinite plural)
markirnar (accusative definite plural)
mark (dative indefinite singular)
markini (dative definite singular)
markum (dative indefinite plural)
markunum (dative definite plural)
markar (genitive indefinite singular)
markarinnar (definite genitive singular)
marka (genitive indefinite plural)
markanna (definite genitive plural)


mark

mark n (genitive singular marks, plural mørk)

marks (genitive singular)
mørk (plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
markið (definite nominative singular)
mark (indefinite nominative plural)
markini (definite nominative plural)
mark (accusative indefinite singular)
markið (accusative definite singular)
mark (accusative indefinite plural)
markini (accusative definite plural)
marki (dative indefinite singular)
markinum (dative definite singular)
markum (dative indefinite plural)
markunum (dative definite plural)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
marksins (definite genitive singular)
marka (genitive indefinite plural)
markanna (definite genitive plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
markið (definite nominative singular)
mørk (indefinite nominative plural)
mørkini (definite nominative plural)
mark (accusative indefinite singular)
markið (accusative definite singular)
mørk (accusative indefinite plural)
mørkini (accusative definite plural)
marki (dative indefinite singular)
markinum (dative definite singular)
mørkum (dative indefinite plural)
mørkunum (dative definite plural)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
marksins (definite genitive singular)
marka (genitive indefinite plural)
markanna (definite genitive plural)


mark

is-noun

mark n (genitive singular marks, nominative plural mörk)

marks (genitive singular)
mörk (nominative plural)
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
markið (definite nominative singular)
mörk (indefinite nominative plural)
mörkin (definite nominative plural)
mark (accusative indefinite singular)
markið (accusative definite singular)
mörk (accusative indefinite plural)
mörkin (accusative definite plural)
marki (dative indefinite singular)
markinu (dative definite singular)
mörkum (dative indefinite plural)
mörkunum (dative definite plural)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
marksins (definite genitive singular)
marka (genitive indefinite plural)
markanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką.


mark

marken (definite singular)
marker (indefinite plural)
markene (definite plural)
makk (alternative)


mark

marka (definite singular)
marken (definite singular)
marker (indefinite plural)
markene (definite plural)


mark

marka (definite singular)
marker (indefinite plural)
markene (definite plural)
mork (alternative)


mark

a unit of measure equivalent to 250 grams

any of various European monetary units, including in Finland (1861-1999) and Germany (1948-1999)

(numismatics, historical) an old Norwegian coin

a mark
an old Norwegian coin
a coin worth 8 øre

(19th century) a coin worth 24 shillings or 1/5 taler

a mark
an old Norwegian coin
a coin worth 24 shillings or 1/5 taler

det kosta 50 mark

(historical) a Norwegian unit used to measure the taxability of property

head

mark f (definite singular marka, indefinite plural merker or (currency) mark, definite plural merker)

marka (definite singular)
merker (indefinite plural)
mark (indefinite plural)
merker (definite plural)
mork (alternative)


mark

marken (definite singular)
markar (indefinite plural)
markane (definite plural)
makk (alternative)


mark

market (definite singular)
mark (indefinite plural)
marka (definite plural)


mark

gmq-osw-decl-blank-full

mark

masculine
mark (indefinite nominative singular)
markin (definite nominative singular)
markar (indefinite nominative plural)
markarnar (definite nominative plural)
markanar (definite nominative plural)
mark (accusative indefinite singular)
markina (accusative definite singular)
markar (accusative indefinite plural)
markarnar (accusative definite plural)
markanar (accusative definite plural)
mark (dative indefinite singular)
marko (dative indefinite singular)
markinni (dative definite singular)
markinne (dative definite singular)
markum (dative indefinite plural)
markom (dative indefinite plural)
markumin (dative definite plural)
markomen (dative definite plural)
markar (genitive indefinite singular)
markarinnar (definite genitive singular)
marka (genitive indefinite plural)
markanna (definite genitive plural)

Swedish: mark

From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō.


mark

mark (nominative singular)
marku (nominative plural)
mark (accusative singular)
marku (accusative plural)
markas (genitive singular)
markō (genitive plural)
markē (dative singular)
markum (dative plural)
marku (instrumental singular)
markum (instrumental plural)

desctree

Old English: marc
Middle English: mark
English: mark
Scots: mark, merk
→ Irish: marg

Old Frisian: merk

Saterland Frisian: Määrk

West Frisian: merk

Old Saxon: mark, merk

Middle Low German: mark

German Low German: Mark

Old Dutch: marc

Middle Dutch: marc, marc

Dutch: merk

Afrikaans: merk

Old High German: marc n

Middle High German: marc, marche, marke (chiefly f, influenced by *marku)

German: Mark f
→ Yiddish: מאַרק (mark)

→ Luxembourgish: Mark

→ Medieval Latin: marcus (see there for further descendants)


mark

Fåglar gillar att flyga, men ibland går de omkring på marken

Birds like to fly, but sometimes they walk around on the ground

Han lade sig platt på marken

Hon kastade sig till marken

löv som faller till marken

Tjuren frustade och stampade i marken

Hon studsade bollen i marken

Helikoptern tog mark och fattade eld

The helicopter hit the ground and caught fire

gräva ett hål i marken med en spade

Grävlingar gräver tunnlar i marken

ha fast mark under fötterna

be on terra firma ("have solid ground under one's feet")

(uncountable) ground (surface of the Earth (or some other planet, etc.), or the area (immediately) beneath it)

vara på brittisk mark

soil (land belonging to someone, when idiomatic in English)

vara på okänd mark

ströva omkring i markerna

Det är torrt i markerna

There are dry conditions ("It is dry in the lands," focusing on wild areas like forests, etc.)

vara ute i skog och mark

be out in the wilderness ("forest and (wild) land," idiomatic)

(often in the plural) land in its natural state, wild land

land, ground (area of ground)
land in its natural state, wild land

Bonden ägde mycket mark

Nisse äger marken på andra sidan sjön

Nisse owns the land on the other side of the lake

kommunens mark

privat mark

våtmarker

betesmark

minerad mark

Styrkorna har vunnit mark

vara tillbaka på klassisk mark

Löparen tappade mark på sista varvet

Partiet har vunnit mark

ground (distance, etc., similar to English – sometimes figuratively)

mark (indefinite nominative singular)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
marken (definite nominative singular)
markens (definite genitive singular)
marker (indefinite nominative plural)
markers (genitive indefinite plural)
markerna (definite nominative plural)
markernas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).