Noun: maar
| Singular | maar |
| Plural | maars; maare |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like maar
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Maar; English usage from 1825, from Vulgar Latin *mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”) and mere (“a body of standing water”). See: German Nouns '
Maar', Latin Nouns '
mare'.