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English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of margarine.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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marg (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of margarine.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of margarita.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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marg (countable and uncountable, plural margs)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of margarita (cocktail with tequila, orange liqueur, and lime).
    • 2022, Jennifer Bonds, Catching Quinn:
      I'm wedged in between a couple of squealing woo girls who are guzzling margs like it's last call []

Etymology 3

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From Hindi मार्ग (mārg). Doublet of marga.

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Noun

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marg (plural margs)

  1. (India) A road.
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  • Occasionally encountered in regions outside India that have large Indian populations. For example, Gobind Marg is a street in Bradford, England.

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Old Irish marg. Borrowing of Old Norse mǫrk from Proto-Germanic *markō. Distantly related to brugh, a native Celtic word.

Noun

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marg f (genitive singular mairge, nominative plural marga)

  1. (literary) march, boundary
Declension
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Declension of marg (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative marg marga
vocative a mharg a mharga
genitive mairge marg
dative marg
mairg (archaic, dialectal)
marga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mharg na marga
genitive na mairge na marg
dative leis an marg
leis an mairg (archaic, dialectal)
don mharg
don mhairg (archaic, dialectal)
leis na marga

Etymology 2

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Old Irish marg. Borrowing of Old English marc from Proto-Germanic *marką. Doublet of marc.

Noun

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marg m (genitive singular mairg, nominative plural mairg)

  1. mark (unit of currency)
Declension
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Declension of marg (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative marg mairg
vocative a mhairg a mharga
genitive mairg marg
dative marg mairg
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an marg na mairg
genitive an mhairg na marg
dative leis an marg
don mharg
leis na mairg

Mutation

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Mutated forms of marg
radical lenition eclipsis
marg mharg not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Latin margo (edge, margin, limit).

Noun

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marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural marger, definite plural margene)

  1. (typography) a margin
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse mergr, from Proto-Germanic *mazgaz < *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos, *mosgʰos. Compare Icelandic mergur, Swedish märg, Danish marv, Dutch merg, German Mark, English marrow.

Noun

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marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural marger, definite plural margene)

  1. marrow (substance inside bones)
  2. pith
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See also

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References

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  • “marg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • marg” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Latin margo.

Noun

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marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural margar, definite plural margane)

  1. (typography) a margin
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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marg m (definite singular margen, indefinite plural margar, definite plural margane)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of merg

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Phalura

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Etymology

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From Urdu مرگ (marg), from Persian مرگ (marg).

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Noun

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marg m (Perso-Arabic spelling مرگ)

  1. death

Inflection

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i-decl (Obl, pl): -í

References

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  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “marg”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN