"mare" meaning in Norman

See mare in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: mares [plural], mathe [alternative], mar [alternative]
Etymology: From Old French mare. Etymology templates: {{inh|nrf|fro|mare}} Old French mare Head templates: {{head|nrf|noun|||plural|mares||||||{{{3}}}|f2accel-form=p|g=f|g2=|head=}} mare f (plural mares), {{nrf-noun|f}} mare f (plural mares)
  1. (continental, Guernsey) pool Tags: Guernsey, feminine
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nrf",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "mare"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French mare",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French mare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mathe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nrf",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "mares",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "f2accel-form": "p",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "mare f (plural mares)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "mare f (plural mares)",
      "name": "nrf-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norman",
  "lang_code": "nrf",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Continental Norman",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Guernsey Norman",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Norman entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 42 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "nrf",
          "name": "Water",
          "orig": "nrf:Water",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              103,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              89,
              94
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.",
          "ref": "1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 534:",
          "text": "Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.",
          "translation": "If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pool"
      ],
      "id": "en-mare-nrf-noun-J8rFUDg2",
      "links": [
        [
          "pool",
          "pool"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "continental",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(continental, Guernsey) pool"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Guernsey",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mare"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nrf",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "mare"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French mare",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French mare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mathe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nrf",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "plural",
        "6": "mares",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "f2accel-form": "p",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "mare f (plural mares)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "mare f (plural mares)",
      "name": "nrf-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norman",
  "lang_code": "nrf",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Continental Norman",
        "Guernsey Norman",
        "Norman entries with incorrect language header",
        "Norman feminine nouns",
        "Norman lemmas",
        "Norman nouns",
        "Norman terms derived from Old French",
        "Norman terms inherited from Old French",
        "Norman terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 42 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "nrf:Water"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              103,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              89,
              94
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.",
          "ref": "1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 534:",
          "text": "Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biau temps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.",
          "translation": "If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fine weather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pool"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pool",
          "pool"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "continental",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(continental, Guernsey) pool"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Guernsey",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mare"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mare meaning in Norman (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Norman dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.