English

Mars astronomical symbol

Mars (planet)

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology) The Roman god of war.

   Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had daughter called Harmonia.‎

2. (poetic) War; a personification of war.

   In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.‎

   • 1918, Ruth Stanley Farnam, A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia, page 57:

     Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.

   • 1944, McGraw-Hill, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 145, page 54:

     A relieved world then will eagerly turn to the task of reclaiming the destruction wrought by Mars ... A tremendous task, filled with infinite possibilities ... A profitable task, according to how well you are prepared to do your part in the rehabilitation ...

   • 1975, Helen Diane Russell, Jeffrey Blanchard, Jacques Callot: Prints & Related Drawings, Issue 21, page 10:

     The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace.

3. (astronomy) The fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂

   Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.‎

Synonyms

• (god of war): Ares

Derived terms

• Marsling
• martial
• Martian

Translations

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Phobos, Deimos

Etymology 2

After Frank C. Mars, who founded the company that produces these chocolate bars.

Proper noun

Mars

1. The Mars Bar, a brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
   • 1985 — Michael Collier, Longest Day, p 206

     Easily eight foot tall, each was big, brown and glutinous - like giant Mars Bars squeezed and welded into nightmarish sculptures.

Translations

Anagrams

• arms
• ASRM
• mas'r
• MRSA
• rams
• SRAM

Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mars m

1. Mars

Derived terms

• Marťan m

Danish

Proper noun

Mars

1. Mars

See also

(planets of the solar system) planeter i solsystemet; Merkur,‎ Venus,‎ Jorden/‎jorden,‎ Mars,‎ Jupiter,‎ Saturn,‎ Uranus,‎ Neptun ^[edit]

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrs

Proper noun

Mars ?

1. (Roman mythology, astronomy) Mars

Estonian

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɹs/

Proper noun

Mars

1. March

Synonyms

• Tedoxe

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Mars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʂː/
• Rhymes: -aʂː
• Homophone: mars

Proper noun

Mars m

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

See also

• (planets of the solar system) gongustjørnur i sólskipanini; Merkur,‎ Venus,‎ jørðin,‎ Mars,‎ Jupiter,‎ Saturn,‎ Uranus,‎ Neptun ^[edit]

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrs/

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

Derived terms

• marsilainen

French

Etymology

From Latin Mars

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁs/

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mars m ‎(genitive Mars)

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) Merkur, Venus, Erde, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Mars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrʃ]
• Hyphenation: Mars

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

Derived terms

• marsi

(Compound words):

• marslakó

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Mars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar̥s/
• Rhymes: -ar̥s
• Homophone: mars

Proper noun

Mars m

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Mars.

Proper noun

Mars m ‎(genitive Mhars)

1. (Roman mythology, astronomy) Mars

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) Mearcair, Véineas, Domhan, Mars, Iúpatar, Satarn, Úránas, Neiptiún

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

From older Latin (older than 75 BC) Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Mawort. Mamers was his Oscan name. He was also known as Marmor, Marmar and Maris, the latter from the Etruscan deity Maris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːrs/

Proper noun

Mārs m ‎(genitive Mārtis); third declension

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Noun

Mārs m ‎(genitive Mārtis); third declension

1. war, battle, conflict

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: Mars
• Italian: Marte

Latvian

Proper noun

Mars m

1. vocative singular form of Marss

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowing from Norwegian Mars.

Proper noun

Mars

1. Mars (planet)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• (planets) Merkur, Venus, Eana, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun

Norwegian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maːrs/, [maːʂ]

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

See also

• (planets) planet; Merkur, Venus, jorda, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun

Polish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mars m pers

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

Derived terms

• (planet): Marsjanin, Marsjanka, marsjański
• (god): marsowy

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mârs/

Proper noun

Mȁrs m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рс)

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmáːrs/
• Tonal orthography: mȃrs

Proper noun

Márs m anim ‎(genitive Mársa)

1. (planet, Roman mythology) Mars

Declension

Planet:

God (or sometimes the planet):

See also

(planets of the Solar System) planéti osónčja; Merkúr, Vénera, Zémlja, Márs, Júpiter, Satúrn, Urán, Neptún

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mars/

Proper noun

Mars

1. (Roman mythology, planet) Mars

See also

• mars (the month)

Tatar

Proper noun

Mars

1. Mars (planet)

Declension

References

• 8 klassik planetağa qarıy, menä alar: Merkuri, Venera, Cir, Mars, Yupiter, Saturn, Uran häm Neptun. Pluto xäzer başqa kategoriädä, ul kärlä planeta...

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English March.

Proper noun

Mars

1. March

English

Verb

mars

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of mar

Noun

mars

1. plural of mar

Anagrams

• arms, ASRM, mas'r, MRSA, rams, SRAM

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin martius.

Noun

mars m

1. March

Catalan

Noun

mars

1. plural of mar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrs

Etymology 1

Noun

mars m ‎(plural marsen, diminutive marsje n)

1. march

Derived terms

• opmars

Related terms

• marcheren

Interjection

mars

1. march! (military command)

   Voorwaarts, mars!‎

   Forward, march!

Etymology 2

Noun

mars f ‎(plural marsen, diminutive marsje n)

1. basket (usually worn on the back like a rucksack)

Related terms

• marskramer

Faroese

Noun

mars m

1. March (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: fo:Months)}

Finnish

Interjection

mars

1. march! (military command)

French

Etymology

From Old French mars, from (mensis) Latin mārtius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁs/

Noun

mars m ‎(plural mars)

1. March (month)

Related terms

• (Gregorian calendar months) mois du calendrier grégorien; janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, août, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre ^{(Category: fr:Months)}

Derived terms

• arriver comme mars en carême
• grand mars
• ides de mars

See also

• mois
• Mars

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar̥s/

  Rhymes: -ar̥s

  Homophone: Mars

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Latin mārtiī, genitive singular of mārtius ‎(“relating to Mars”), from Mārs ‎(“Mars, Roman god of war and agriculture”).

Noun

mars m ‎(invariable, no plural)

1. March

Synonyms

• marsmánuður

Derived terms

• marsbyrjun
• marsmánuður

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Danish march ‎(“march”), from French marche ‎(“walk, march”), of Frankish origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- ‎(“boundary, edge”).

Noun

mars m ‎(genitive singular mars, nominative plural marsar)

1. march (musical piece such as is played while marching)
2. march (type of dance)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin mārtius ‎(“month of the god Mars”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑʃ

Noun

mars m ‎(indeclinable)

1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

References

• “mars” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin mārtius ‎(“month of the god Mars”).

Noun

mars m ‎(indeclinable)

1. March (third month)

References

• “mars” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin mārtius.

Noun

mars m ‎(oblique plural mars, nominative singular mars, nominative plural mars)

1. March (month)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: marche
  • Middle English: March
    • English: March
• Middle French: mars
  • French: mars
• Walloon: måss

Etymology 2

see marc

Noun

mars m

1. oblique plural of marc
2. nominative singular of marc

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) marz

Etymology

From Latin mārtius ‎(“of March”).

Proper noun

mars m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) March

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʂ/

Noun

mars c

1. March (month)

Tashelhit

Etymology

From Latin mārtius.

Noun

mars

1. March (month)