marta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmar.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmaɾ.ta]

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marta f (plural martes)

1. alternative form of mart (“marten”)

• marta pescadora

• “marta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

1439. From Proto-West Germanic *marþ (“marten”), maybe through Old French marte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾta̝/

marta f (plural martas)

1. marten

   Synonyms: martaraña, martuxa

   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 420:

     da pelica da marta, hua branca, et da lontra, dous diñeiros, et da raposa, hun diñeiro

     a marten pelt, a branca [coin]; and of otter, two diñeiros; and of fox, a diñeiro

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “marta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mar +‎ -ta

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrtɒ]
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

marta

1. third-person singular indicative past definite of mar

marta

1. verbal participle of mar

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrtɑ/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

marta (genitive martan, partitive martua)

1. (South Karelian) March

• (North Karelian) kevätkuu, (South Karelian) keviäkuu

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “marta”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

marta m

1. genitive singular of marts

Borrowed from Middle French marte,^[1] from Old French martre, borrowed from Frankish *marþr.

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• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtɐ, (Brazil) -aʁtɐ
• Homophone: Marta
• Hyphenation: mar‧ta

marta f (plural martas)

1. marten (animal)
2. (Trás-os-Montes) drunkenness

• “marta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “marta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Possibly borrowed from Middle French marte,^[1] from Old French martre, borrowed from Frankish *marþr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾta/ [ˈmaɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Syllabification: mar‧ta

marta f (plural martas)

1. marten (mammal of the Martes genus)

• “marta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

marta (plural martalar)

1. time (occurrence)

   bir marta ― once

   bir necha marta ― a few times, several times

   bir-ikki marta ― a couple of times

   koʻp marta ― many times

   yana bir ― one more time

   ikkinchi marta ― second time

   oxirgi marta ― (for the) last time

   yiliga bir marta ― once a year

   biror marta ham ― not once, never

   bir marta emas, ikki marta emas ― not once and not twice

   ikni martadan ― twice each