mare

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n. 母马, 母驴, 月球表面阴暗部 [法] 海

发音

US /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
UK /mɛə/
US /mɛɚ/
US /ˈmɛɚ.i/
US /ˈmɑɹ.i/
AU /meː/
NZ /meə/
NZ /miə/
SCOT /meɹ/
/mɜː(ɹ)/

词形变化

mares 复数 maria 复数

别名

meare

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An adult female horse.

    骒马

    母马

  2. 2.

    A foolish woman.

    爱尔兰 英国 贬义 俚语
  3. 1.

    A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.

    历史 废旧
  4. 2.

    A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

    爱尔兰 英国 非正式

    I'm having a complete mare today.

  5. 1.

    A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon.

    月海

    天文
  6. 2.

    On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

    天文

    Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

  7. 1.

    Obsolete form of mayor.

    废旧
  8. 2.

    Obsolete form of mair.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

maria

上位词 3

part horse region

下位词 2

broodmare studmare

相关短语

mare clausum n. 领海 mare liberum n. 公海 Mare Harbour Mare Harbor the grey mare is the better horse Valea Mare Pravăț Lago Mare event wooden mare shanks' mare [网络] 走路 shank's mare [网络] 小腿的母马 brood mare 繁殖母马 stud mare [网络] 螺母母马 Kraken Mare Satu Mare flying mare （摔跤）握单臂背

词源

From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”). Cognates Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”).

来源：wiktionary