"mar ea" meaning in Irish

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently contracted from mar bha ea (“as it were”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "mar ea",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a pretended king",
          "text": "rí mar ea",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "—It’s a fine day today. —The hell it is!",
          "text": "— Lá breá atá ann inniu. —Tá mar ea!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "There is what seems to be a goat on the road before me.",
          "text": "Tá mar ea gabhar ar an mbóthar romham.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The time was up, and when the vessel was about to leave the harbor, the mate was not able to go aboard because he was ill, he claimed.",
          "ref": "1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:",
          "text": "Bhí an aimsir caithte agus nuair a bhí an t-árthach chun cuain a fhágaint ní raibh an máta ábalta ar dhul ar bórd, mar bhí sé breóidhte, mar eadh.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "used to express skepticism or doubt about the accuracy or veracity of a claim"
      ],
      "id": "en-mar_ea-ga-phrase-d4ZIeXLO",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "superseded",
          "word": "mar eadh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mˠaɾˠ ˈja/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mˠɑɾˠ ˈjɛ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mar ea"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently contracted from mar bha ea (“as it were”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "mar ea",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Irish lemmas",
        "Irish multiword terms",
        "Irish phrases",
        "Irish terms with quotations",
        "Irish terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a pretended king",
          "text": "rí mar ea",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "—It’s a fine day today. —The hell it is!",
          "text": "— Lá breá atá ann inniu. —Tá mar ea!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "There is what seems to be a goat on the road before me.",
          "text": "Tá mar ea gabhar ar an mbóthar romham.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The time was up, and when the vessel was about to leave the harbor, the mate was not able to go aboard because he was ill, he claimed.",
          "ref": "1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:",
          "text": "Bhí an aimsir caithte agus nuair a bhí an t-árthach chun cuain a fhágaint ní raibh an máta ábalta ar dhul ar bórd, mar bhí sé breóidhte, mar eadh.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "used to express skepticism or doubt about the accuracy or veracity of a claim"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mˠaɾˠ ˈja/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mˠɑɾˠ ˈjɛ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "superseded",
      "word": "mar eadh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mar ea"
}