maarn.

Brit.

/mɑː/, U.S.

/mɑr/

Inflections: Plural maare, maars.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Maar.

Etymology: < German (originally regional) Maar crater-lake (originally in place names; 20th cent. in sense b), probably < post-classical Latin mara pond, lake, swamp (see mere n.¹).

Geology.

a. Also Maar. Any of the craters or crater-lakes in the Eifel district of western Germany.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types

pene-lake1668

salina1697

slough1714

salt lake1763

bayou1766

lagoon1769

cut-off1773

prairie1820

maar1826

boating lake1834

serpentine1837

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

stream-lake1867

shott1878

crater-lake1879

playa1885

oxbow lake1887

kettle-hole lake1902

mortlake1902

oxbow1902

seepage lake1934

paternoster lake1942

soda pan1976

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > crater > spec

maar1826

1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 152 The craters of this country [sc. Prussia] have nearly, without exception, become bodies of water, or Maare, as they are called by the natives.

1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 154 To the S.E. of Steffler, lies a small maar, or crater-lake.

1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 156 The water in the three lakes appears to stand at the same level... One only, the Schalkenonchrener maar, has any visible outlet.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 197 The Meerfelder Maar is a cavity of far greater size.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 560 Occasionally, as in some of the Maare of the Eifel, these non-volcanic fragments constitute most of the débris.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 307/2 Crater-lakes occupy the craters of extinct or dormant volcanoes (e.g. the Maare of the Eifel district).

b. A broad, low-rimmed, usually lake-filled volcanic crater of the kind exemplified by the Eifel Maars, formed by an explosion with little lava at a coneless vent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > crater

mouth1604

crater1613

pit-crater1862

caldera1865

maar1895

1895 Bull. Philos. Soc. Washington 12 251 The maars are of still rarer occurrence, and represent the antithetic phase of volcanism.

1933 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & Depths of Earth viii. 161 Maars are relatively flat-floored craters of explosion at vents that are either coneless or else provided with inconspicuous cones.

1933 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & Depths of Earth viii. 161 Reck has recently published..fine illustrations of maars in Abyssinia.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 681/1 Maare sometimes resemble calderas.

1971 Nature 30 July 330/2 The lake occupies the crater of a maar—a volcanic eruption crater lying below the general level of the surrounding country and surrounded by a low tuff ring.

1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) iv. 334 Even more frightening would have been the vast explosions that formed the beautiful clear maars—unusual volcanic lakes—which occur in pairs here, a great geological rarity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

maarconj.adv.

Brit.

/mɑː/, U.S.

/mɑr/, South African English

/mɑː/

Forms: 1800s– maar, 2000s– ma'.

Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans maar.

Etymology: < Afrikaans maar but, yet, only, just (used in all three senses below) < South African Dutch, Dutch maar (Middle Dutch maer , māre , nemaer , nemāre , newaer , newāre < ni , negative particle (see ne adv.¹) + wāre , preterite subjunctive of wezen to be: see be v.). Compare the corresponding formation Old High German niwāri (Middle High German newære, German nur).

South African.

A. conj.

But, yet. Frequently used to indicate that Afrikaans speech is being reported.

ΚΠ

1892 Jrnl. (Grahamstown) 12 Jan. 3 One day as he sat upon his stoep, he saw a number of bovines in the field. ‘Klaas’... ‘Ja, baas’, ‘Take these cattle to the skit at once.’ ‘Maar baas—’ ‘Don't baas me, take them off.’ ‘Maar, baas—’.]

1896 M. A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Transvaal 280 ‘Maar, Sieur,’ remonstrated the man; ‘Sieur forgets that I told him there were two young ladies in the waggon.’

1912 F. Bancroft Veldt Dwellers 83 Maar this man—a devil at fighting—is still at large on our borders, and able to do us mischief.

1931 F. C. Slater Secret Veld 300 Jan Woest laughed... ‘Maar, Oom Piet,’ he said, ‘you are losing all the interest upon your money.’

1974 A. Brink Looking on Darkness 50 If it must break my poor old far'er's heart, it's ok maar just too bed [sc. bad] for I love you.

1982 M. Mzamane Children of Soweto 132 I went there before coming here. Maar before that I'd been to Inhlazane.

B. adv. colloquial. Often used redundantly.

1. Used as an intensifier.

ΚΠ

1913 A. B. Marchand Dirk, S. African in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 431/1 The bearer of bad tidings is maar unwelcome.

1970 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 431/1 The sheep are maar pretty thin.

1989 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. 85 687/1 There has been a blur of activity in the ‘higher’ corridors of science, but the pace is maar slack out here in the gamadoelas!

2. Simply, merely, just. Cf. sommer adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > simply, only, or merely

butOE

onlya1325

alone?c1335

purelya1375

alonelya1400

nobbuta1400

simplya1400

plain1535

barely1577

merelyc1580

purea1616

singly1655

just1668

sommer1835

maara1931

a1931 S. Black Three Plays (1984) 167 Ja, I used to have pains in my belly... The doctor said I've got maar a stone inside.

1949 H. C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug iii. 52 When I is blue like what I is now, then I says you can maar keep me locked up in the old boob as long as you blerrie well like.

1963 M. Kavanagh We Merry Peasants 14 Ag, ja wat, lady. It's all right. I'm just maar thinking what it is that you must send to the Transvaal for.

1970 S. Roberts in Ophir 12 Sept. 12 He is arrested it's maar for the best i'm not going to be sucker to bail him out.

1982 A. Fugard Lesson from Aloes ii. 60 You must choose..what you want to take with you, what you'll give to your old Auntie Bettie in Salisbury Park or what you'll just maar throw away.

1991 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) I suppose we'll never be ready. We're going to maar find out the hard way what to do.

2014 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Cobra (2015) vi. 32 Big paint job in Rose Street, a whole block of flats... And it's interiors too, so it can ma' rain.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maar
释义	maarn. Brit. /mɑː/, U.S. /mɑr/ Inflections: Plural maare, maars. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Maar. Etymology: < German (originally regional) Maar crater-lake (originally in place names; 20th cent. in sense b), probably < post-classical Latin mara pond, lake, swamp (see mere n.¹). Geology. a. Also Maar. Any of the craters or crater-lakes in the Eifel district of western Germany. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > crater > spec maar1826 1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 152 The craters of this country [sc. Prussia] have nearly, without exception, become bodies of water, or Maare, as they are called by the natives. 1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 154 To the S.E. of Steffler, lies a small maar, or crater-lake. 1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 5 156 The water in the three lakes appears to stand at the same level... One only, the Schalkenonchrener maar, has any visible outlet. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 197 The Meerfelder Maar is a cavity of far greater size. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 560 Occasionally, as in some of the Maare of the Eifel, these non-volcanic fragments constitute most of the débris. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 307/2 Crater-lakes occupy the craters of extinct or dormant volcanoes (e.g. the Maare of the Eifel district). b. A broad, low-rimmed, usually lake-filled volcanic crater of the kind exemplified by the Eifel Maars, formed by an explosion with little lava at a coneless vent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > crater mouth1604 crater1613 pit-crater1862 caldera1865 maar1895 1895 Bull. Philos. Soc. Washington 12 251 The maars are of still rarer occurrence, and represent the antithetic phase of volcanism. 1933 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & Depths of Earth viii. 161 Maars are relatively flat-floored craters of explosion at vents that are either coneless or else provided with inconspicuous cones. 1933 R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks & Depths of Earth viii. 161 Reck has recently published..fine illustrations of maars in Abyssinia. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 681/1 Maare sometimes resemble calderas. 1971 Nature 30 July 330/2 The lake occupies the crater of a maar—a volcanic eruption crater lying below the general level of the surrounding country and surrounded by a low tuff ring. 1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) iv. 334 Even more frightening would have been the vast explosions that formed the beautiful clear maars—unusual volcanic lakes—which occur in pairs here, a great geological rarity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). maarconj.adv. Brit. /mɑː/, U.S. /mɑr/, South African English /mɑː/ Forms: 1800s– maar, 2000s– ma'. Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans maar. Etymology: < Afrikaans maar but, yet, only, just (used in all three senses below) < South African Dutch, Dutch maar (Middle Dutch maer , māre , nemaer , nemāre , newaer , newāre < ni , negative particle (see ne adv.¹) + wāre , preterite subjunctive of wezen to be: see be v.). Compare the corresponding formation Old High German niwāri (Middle High German newære, German nur). South African. A. conj. But, yet. Frequently used to indicate that Afrikaans speech is being reported. ΚΠ 1892 Jrnl. (Grahamstown) 12 Jan. 3 One day as he sat upon his stoep, he saw a number of bovines in the field. ‘Klaas’... ‘Ja, baas’, ‘Take these cattle to the skit at once.’ ‘Maar baas—’ ‘Don't baas me, take them off.’ ‘Maar, baas—’.] 1896 M. A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Transvaal 280 ‘Maar, Sieur,’ remonstrated the man; ‘Sieur forgets that I told him there were two young ladies in the waggon.’ 1912 F. Bancroft Veldt Dwellers 83 Maar this man—a devil at fighting—is still at large on our borders, and able to do us mischief. 1931 F. C. Slater Secret Veld 300 Jan Woest laughed... ‘Maar, Oom Piet,’ he said, ‘you are losing all the interest upon your money.’ 1974 A. Brink Looking on Darkness 50 If it must break my poor old far'er's heart, it's ok maar just too bed [sc. bad] for I love you. 1982 M. Mzamane Children of Soweto 132 I went there before coming here. Maar before that I'd been to Inhlazane. B. adv. colloquial. Often used redundantly. 1. Used as an intensifier. ΚΠ 1913 A. B. Marchand Dirk, S. African in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 431/1 The bearer of bad tidings is maar unwelcome. 1970 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 431/1 The sheep are maar pretty thin. 1989 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. 85 687/1 There has been a blur of activity in the ‘higher’ corridors of science, but the pace is maar slack out here in the gamadoelas! 2. Simply, merely, just. Cf. sommer adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > simply, only, or merely butOE onlya1325 alone?c1335 purelya1375 alonelya1400 nobbuta1400 simplya1400 plain1535 barely1577 merelyc1580 purea1616 singly1655 just1668 sommer1835 maara1931 a1931 S. Black Three Plays (1984) 167 Ja, I used to have pains in my belly... The doctor said I've got maar a stone inside. 1949 H. C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug iii. 52 When I is blue like what I is now, then I says you can maar keep me locked up in the old boob as long as you blerrie well like. 1963 M. Kavanagh We Merry Peasants 14 Ag, ja wat, lady. It's all right. I'm just maar thinking what it is that you must send to the Transvaal for. 1970 S. Roberts in Ophir 12 Sept. 12 He is arrested it's maar for the best i'm not going to be sucker to bail him out. 1982 A. Fugard Lesson from Aloes ii. 60 You must choose..what you want to take with you, what you'll give to your old Auntie Bettie in Salisbury Park or what you'll just maar throw away. 1991 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) I suppose we'll never be ready. We're going to maar find out the hard way what to do. 2014 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Cobra (2015) vi. 32 Big paint job in Rose Street, a whole block of flats... And it's interiors too, so it can ma' rain. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1826conj.adv.1896
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