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Marah
Marah
See also: marah
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from Hebrew מָרָה (mará, “bitter”)
Proper noun
Marah f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Cucurbitaceae – the manroots, native to Western North America.
Synonyms
- (manroot): wild cucumber, cucumber gourd, old man in the ground
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Cucurbitales - order; Cucurbitaceae - family; Cucurbitoideae - subfamily; Sicyeae - tribe; Cyclantherinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Marah oreganus - type species; Marah fabaceus, Marah gilensis, Marah guadalupensis, Marah horrida, Marah inermis, Marah macrocarpa, Marah watsonii - species
English
Proper noun
Marah
- A female given name, from Arabic (Ar:مرح), which means merriness, cheerfulness.
- A female given name, from Hebrew which means bitterness. Biblical variant: Mara.
Translations
female given name from Hebrew
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