marde

French

Pronunciation

• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /maʁd/

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Noun

marde f (plural mardes)

1. (Quebec, New Brunswick, vulgar, slang) alternative form of merde

   Ben tabarnak, ça sent la marde icitte!

   Holy fuck, it smells like shit in here!

   J’ai marché dans une marde de chien.

   I stepped in dog shit.

   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 64:

     "Tu es trop jeune pour boire, dit Maurice.//Mange de la marde, riposta-t-elle en lui tournant aussitôt le dos."

     You're too young to drink, Maurice said.//Go eat shit! came the answer as she immediately whirled around.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• damer, drame, merda

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mardi (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• mardis (Sursilvan)
• margis (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin Mārtis diēs, variant of diēs Mārtis (“Tuesday”, literally “day of Mars)”).

Noun

marde m (plural mardes)

1. (Surmiran) Tuesday

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian مردن (mordan).

Verb

marde

1. to die

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑrːdə/
• Hyphenation: mar‧de

Noun

marde f

1. mother

   Synonyms: maye, mae, mare, ma, may, mey