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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: märt, IPA(key): /mɑɹt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɑːt/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Audio (UK): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.
Noun
mart (plural marts)
- (Canada, US, Philippines, usually only in combination) A shop, a store, a market.
- A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
- In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
- c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 87:
- Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him,
And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner:
Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret;
A man is Maſter of his libertie:
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 23:3:
- And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.
- 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 38:
- In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart,
So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied,
As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill
Increaſing, London?
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 202:
- The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.
- 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14:
- The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.
- (obsolete) A bargain.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 217, column 2:
- Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part,
And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
Derived terms
Verb
mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)
- (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- To sell and mart your officer for gold
To undeservers.
- (obsolete) To traffic.
Etymology 2
Noun
mart (plural marts)
Etymology 3
Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.
Noun
mart (uncountable)
- (historical) Marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).
Related terms
Etymology 4
Scottish English, from Middle English, from a Scottish Gaelic root, see mart (“cow prepared for killing”).
Noun
mart (plural marts)
- A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
- (by extension, the animal or its meat) Salt beef.
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Internationalism; from Russian март (mart).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)
- (North Azerbaijani) March
- Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) مارس (mars)
Declension
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Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of Germanic origin, possibly through Old French martre, from Proto-West Germanic *marþ (“marten”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mart m (plural marts)
- A marten, especially the European pine marten (Martes martes).
Derived terms
- mart de coll groc
- mart del Japó
- mart del Nilgiri
- mart gibelí
- mart nord-americà
Further reading
- “mart”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “mart”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “mart” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mart” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Noun
mart (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
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Gagauz
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mart (definite accusative martı, uncountable)
Declension
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Further reading
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “март”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 326
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “mart”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 114
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Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
mart
Participle
mart
- past participle of mar
Declension
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