mar
Spanish, noun
mar is spelled M-A-R (3 letters) and appears 129 times per million words in written Spanish, the 672nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mar is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “sea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, mar. is a different word: “abbreviation of marzo (“March”)”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cuerpo de agua salada que rodea los continentes de la Tierra”.
What does mar mean in English?
noun
- 1
sea
Cuba está ubicada en el mar Caribe.
- 2
seaside
- 3
lunar mare
- 4
loads
- 5
really; hella
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of mar.: abbreviation of marzo (“March”)
noun
- 1
masculineabbreviation of marzo (“March”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cuerpo de agua salada que rodea los continentes de la Tierra. 2. Cada una de las divisiones que se hacen al mar₁, frecuentemente en función de los accidentes geográficos. 3. División del mar₁ que por su extensión no alcanza la categoría de océano. 4. Lago grande y de agua salada.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mar
- f same meaning canonical
- mares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mar in Spanish?
mar appears 129 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).