merma
Spanish, noun
merma is spelled M-E-R-M-A (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 28,265th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Merma is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “decline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of mermar. With an accent, mermá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of mermar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de mermar”.
What does merma mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedecline
una merma económica
- 2
feminineshrinkage
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of mermar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de mermar. 2. La parte de algo que se consume es retirada o se reduce.
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 merma
- mermas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is merma in Spanish?
merma appears 1.4 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).