mar
Portuguese, noun
mar is spelled M-A-R (3 letters) and appears 117 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 824th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, mar. is a different word: “abbreviation of março (“March”)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grande quantidade de água salgada que cobre parte do planeta Terra, podendo estar localizada junto ou dentro…”.
What does mar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesea
- 2
masculinemare
- 3
masculinea multitude; a great amount or number of things
Há um mar de possibilidades.
adverb
- 1
eye dialect spelling of mal, representing Caipira Portuguese
noun
- 1
masculineabbreviation of março (“March”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grande quantidade de água salgada que cobre parte do planeta Terra, podendo estar localizada junto ou dentro de continentes
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mar
- mares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (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 Portuguese?
mar appears 117 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).