marten

marten

See also: Marten and Mårten

English

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.tɪn/, /ˈmɑː.tən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.tən/, [ˈmɑɹ.ʔn̩]

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• Hyphenation: mar‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪn
• Homophones: martin, Martin (in some accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English martren, martryn, from Old French martrine (“marten fur”), from Old Dutch *marthrīn (“of marten fur”), from *marthar (“marten”). Displaced Old English mearþ, from Proto-Germanic *marþuz.

Noun

marten (plural martens)

Stuffed European pine marten.

1. Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes in the family Mustelidae.

Derived terms

• American marten
• beech marten
• Japanese marten
• nilgiri marten
• pine marten
• stone marten
• yellow-throated marten

 

Translations

mammal

Abkhaz: цыҕ (cəğ) Albanian: kunadhe (sq), shqarth (sq) Algonquin: wàbicèsè Armenian: կզաքիս (hy) (kzakʿis) Bashkir: һыуһар (hıwhar) Basque: lepahori Belarusian: куні́ца f (kuníca) Breton: mart (br) Bulgarian: бя́лка f (bjálka) Burmese: ဆတ်ခလောက် (my) sg or c (hcathka.lauk) Catalan: marta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 貂 (zh) (diāo) Czech: kuna (cs) f Danish: mår c Dutch: marter (nl) m Erzya: чинеме (čineme) Esperanto: marteso Estonian: nugis Faroese: márur m, mørður m Finnish: näätä (fi) French: marte (fr) f Friulian: mardar, martar Galician: marta (gl) f, fuíña (gl) f, lagaria f Georgian: კვერნა (ḳverna) German: Marder (de) m Greek: δενδροκούναβο (dendrokoúnavo) Ancient: ἴκτις f (íktis) Hebrew: דלק‎ (he) (dalák) Hungarian: (beech marten and other species of the genus Martes) nyest (hu), (European pine marten) nyuszt (hu), (sable) coboly (hu) Icelandic: mörður (is) m Inari Sami: neeti Irish: cat crainn (ga) m Italian: martora (it) f Japanese: テン (ja) (ten) Kalmyk: сувср (suvsr) Kazakh: сусар (susar) Kildin Sami: не̄дтҍ (njēdt’) Korean: 담비 (ko) (dambi) Ladin: meder Latin: martēs f Latvian: cauna f Lithuanian: kiaunė (lt) f Lule Sami: niehte Macedonian: куна f (kuna) Malay: samur Manx: kayt billey m Mari: Eastern Mari: луй (luj) Mi'kmaq: apistanewj anim Mongolian: суусар (mn) (suusar) Narragansett: wappenagh Norman: martre f (Jersey) Northern Sami: neahti Norwegian: Bokmål: mår m Nynorsk: mår m Occitan: marta (oc) f Ojibwe: waabizheshi, waabizheshiwag pl Old English: mearþ m Persian: سمور‎ (fa) (samur), خز‎ (fa) (xaz) Pite Sami: marrta Polish: kuna (pl) f Portuguese: marta (pt) f Romanian: jder (ro) m Romansch: fiergna f, guis m Russian: куни́ца (ru) f (kuníca) Sardinian: schirri, isbirru, marta, martzu Scottish Gaelic: taghan Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: куна f Roman: kuna (sh) f, cibetka f Sicilian: màrtura f Skolt Sami: niẹʹtt Slovak: kuna (sk) f Slovene: kuna (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kuna f Upper Sorbian: kuna f Southern Altai: суузар (suuzar) Southern Sami: maarhte Spanish: marta f Swedish: mård (sv) c Ter Sami: niette Turkish: sansar (tr) Ukrainian: куни́ця f (kunýcja) Ume Sami: martta Welsh: bele West Frisian: marter Yiddish: מאַרדער‎ m (marder)

See also

• badger
• ermine
• ferret
• fisher
• mink
• mustelid
• otter
• sable
• stoat
• weasel
• wolverine

 

Noun

marten (plural martens)

1. Archaic form of martin (the bird)
   • 1829, Magazine of Natural History (volume 1, page 402)

     Towards the end of the month, swallows and house martens congregate, and are often seen resting on the ridges or sloping roofs of buildings.

Anagrams

• Arment, rament