marrow

See also:Marrow

English

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishmary,marow,marwe,marowȝ,fromOld Englishmearg,fromProto-West Germanic*maʀg,fromProto-Germanic*mazgą,*mazgaz,fromProto-Indo-European*mosgʰos.CompareWest Frisianmoarch,Dutchmerg,GermanMark,Swedishmärg,Icelandicmergur,and alsoRussianмозг(mozg,“brain”),Polishmózg(“brain”),Persian(mağz,“brain”).Doubletofmaghaz.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈmæɹəʊ/
(General American)enPR:mărʹō
- (without theMary–marry–merrymerger)IPA^(key):/ˈmæɹoʊ/
- (Mary–marry–merrymerger)IPA^(key):/ˈmɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-æɹəʊ

Noun

marrow(countableanduncountable,pluralmarrows)

Transectedbeef bones, exposing themarrowinside

(uncountable)The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- 1914November,Louis Joseph Vance,“An Outsider[…]”,inMunsey’s Magazine,volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.:The Frank A[ndrew]Munsey Company,[…],published1915,→OCLC,chapter III (Accessory After the Fact),page382,column 1:
  Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her verymarrowin the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 2004,“Eaten”,performed byBloodbath:
  Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink mymarrowand blood for dessert
A kind of vegetable like a largecourgette/zucchiniorsquash.
- 1847,SirRobert Hermann Schomburgk,“Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados”, inBentley's Miscellany,volume XXII, London: Richard Bentley, page37:
  The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetablemarrow,were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
Thepithof certainplants.
The essence; the best part.
- c.1599–1602(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iv]:
  It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith andmarrowof our attribute.
- 1557February 13 (Gregorian calendar),Thomas Tusser,A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie,London:[…]Richard Tottel,→OCLC;republished London:[…]Robert Triphook,[…],and William Sancho,[…],1810,→OCLC:
  I cannot commend, with theefe of hismarrow,for feare of ill end
Innermeaningorpurpose.
(medicine,colloquial,countable)Bone marrow biopsy.
This patient will have amarrowtoday.
(obsolete)(uncountable)Semen.
- c.1604–1605(date written),William Shakespeare,“All’s Well, that Ends Well”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:
  Parolles:He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manlymarrowin her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed.

Synonyms

(the essence; the best part):crux,gist;See alsoThesaurus:gist

Derived terms

Translations

substance inside bones

Arabic:نِقْيُ ٱلْعَظْمm(niqyu l-ʕaẓm),مُخُّ ٱلْعَظْم(muḵḵu l-ʕaẓm),نِقْيm(niqy)
Aragonese:miollom
Armenian:ոսկրածուծ(hy)(oskracuc)
Aromanian:mãduãf
Belarusian:касця́вы мозгm(kascjávy mozh)
Bengali:মজ্জা(bn)(mojja)
Berber:
Tashelhit:adifm
Bulgarian:ко́стен мо́зъкm(kósten mózǎk)
Catalan:medul·la(ca)f,moll(ca)m
Chinese:
Mandarin:Tủy(zh)(suǐ),Cốt tủy(zh)(gǔsuǐ)
Czech:kostní dřeň(cs)f,morek(cs)m
Danish:marv(da)c
Dutch:merg(nl)n
Esperanto:medolo,ostocerbo
Estonian:üdi(et),luuüdi(et),kondiüdi(et)
Faroese:mergurm
Finnish:luuydin(fi)
French:moelle(fr)f,moelle osseuse(fr)f
Friulian:medolef
Galician:miolo(gl)m,sámagom,cana(gl)f,cana dos ósosf,medula(gl)f
Georgian:ტვინი(ṭvini),ძვლის ტვინი(ʒvlis ṭvini)
German:Mark(de)n,Knochenmark(de)n
Greek:μεδούλι(el)n(medoúli)
Ancient:μυελόςm(muelós)
Hindi:मज्जा(hi)m(majjā),गूदा(hi)m(gūdā)
Hungarian:velő(hu),csontvelő(hu)
Indonesian:Sum sum tulang
Interlingua:medulla
Irish:smiorm
Italian:midollo(it)m
Japanese:Cốt tủy(ja)(こつずい, kotsuzui)
Khmer:ខួរឆ្អឹង(khuə chʼəng)
Korean:골수(ko)(golsu)
Latin:medullaf
Macedonian:коскена сржf(koskena srž)
Maltese:mudullunm
Maori:mongamonga,waimongamonga
Mari:
Eastern Mari:вем(vem)
Middle English:marow
Mongolian:чөмөг(mn)(čömög)
Northern Sami:ađa
Norwegian:
Bokmål:marg(no)m

Nynorsk:mergm
Occitan:mesolhaf
Old English:meargn
Ossetian:магъз(maǧz)
Ottoman Turkish:ایلیك(ilik),مخ(muh)
Persian:مغز(phát)(maghz)
Plautdietsch:Moakjn
Polish:szpik(pl)m,szpik kostnym
Portuguese:medula(pt)f,tutano(pt)m,miolo(pt)m
Romanian:măduvă(ro)f
Russian:ко́стный мозг(ru)m(kóstnyj mozg)
Sanskrit:मज्जन्(sa)m(majjan),हड्डज(sa)n(haḍḍaja)
Scots:marrae
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:ср̑жf,мо̏ждинаf,коштана ср̑жf

Roman:sȓž(sh)f,mȍždina(sh)f,koštana sȓžf
Sicilian:miduḍḍunim
Skolt Sami:õõđ
Slovak:kostná dreňf,špikm
Slovene:mozeg(sl)m
Spanish:médula(es)f,tuétano(es)m,meollo(es)m
Swedish:märg(sv)c
Tagalog:utik
Thai:ไขกระดูก(th)(kǎi-grà-dùuk),ไขข้อ(th)
Tocharian B:mrestīwe
Turkish:ilik(tr)
Ukrainian:кістко́вий мо́зокm(kistkóvyj mózok)
Venetan:megòlaf,mioła?,miola?,meoła?,meola?
Vietnamese:tủy xương
Volapük:pif(vo)
Welsh:mêrm
Yiddish:מאַרךm(markh)
Zazaki:ilıgn

kind of vegetable

Arabic:كُوسَاf(kūsā)
Armenian:դդմիկ(hy)(ddmik)
Bulgarian:тиквичкаf(tikvička)
Danish:græskarn
Dutch:mergpompoenm
Finnish:kesäkurpitsa(fi)
French:courgette(fr)f,courge(fr)f
Galician:cabaza(gl)f,calimborniaf
Georgian:ყაბაყი(q̇abaq̇i)
German:Flaschenkürbis(de)m
Greek:κολοκύθα(el)f(kolokýtha)
Hungarian:tök(hu)
Icelandic:mergur(is)m
Irish:mearógf
Italian:zucchina(it)f
Maltese:qarabagħlim
Maori:kamokamo
Norman:courgef,m'lonm
Polish:kabaczek(pl)m
Portuguese:abobrinha(pt)f
Romanian:dovlecel(ro)m
Russian:кабачо́к(ru)m(kabačók)
Spanish:calabaza(es)f
Swedish:squash(sv)c,zucchini(sv)c
Thai:แฟง(fɛɛng)
Welsh:marom

essence

Galician:miolo(gl)
German:Essenz(de)f
Middle English:marow
Welsh:mêrm

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Translations to be checked

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Etymology 2

FromOld Norsemargr.

Alternative forms

marra

Noun

marrow(pluralmarrows)

(Geordie,informal)Afriend,pal,buddy,mate.
Cheersmarrow!
(mining,slang,obsolete)Aminer'smateorassistant.
- 1855,Mining Magazine,page519:
  A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated,[…]but out of this sum, his "marrows"or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid[…]
(Scotlandorarchaic)One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
- c.1620,anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song”inGiles Earle his Booke(British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
  The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle mymorrowe./ The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe.
- [1917,John Buchan, “[Theocritusin Scots.] The Kirn (Idyll vii).”, inPoems: Scots and English(in Scots), London; Edinburgh:T. C. & E. C. Jack,→OCLC,book I (Scots),page38:
  The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no hismarrowleft in the toun.
  The most cheerless soul could see he had sunlight in his eye, / And there's none hisequalleft in the town.]

Derived terms

half-marrow

References

Bill Griffiths,editor (2004), “marrow”, inA Dictionary of North East Dialect,Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear:Northumbria University Press,→ISBN.
Northumberland Words,English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
“Marrow”, inPalgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1],archived fromthe originalon2024-09-05,from F[rancis]M[ilnes]T[emple]Palgrave,A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham[…](Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Societyby Henry Frowde,Oxford University Press,1896,→OCLC.