marram

English

Etymology 1

Marram grass on sand dunes.

From Old Norse maralmr, a compound of marr (“sea”) and halmr (“straw, reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

marram (countable and uncountable, plural marrams)

1. Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.

   Synonyms: beachgrass, marram grass

   • 1910, Walter John Buck, Abel Chapman, Unexplored Spain‎^[1]:

     Rather would we compare these marram-tufted, wind-sculptured sand-wastes with the Red Sea litoral and the Egyptian Soudan, where Osman Digna led British troops memorable dances in the ‘nineties—alike both in their physical aspect and in their climate, red-hot by day, yet apt to be deadly chilly after sundown.

   • 1919, F. St. Mars, The Way of the Wild‎^[2]:

     He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent. Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.

Translations

Ammophila arenaria

• Basque: harenondoko
• Catalan: borró, canya de sorra
• Dutch: helm (nl) f
• Finnish: rantakaura (fi)
• French: gourbet (fr) m, oyat (fr) m
• Galician: feo (gl) m
• German: Strandhafer (de) m, Dünengras n
• Icelandic: melgresi (is) m
• Korean: 마람풀 (marampul)
• Norman: melgreu m
• Polish: piaskownica zwyczajna f
• Russian: песколю́бка f (peskoljúbka)
• Spanish: barrón, carrizo (es)
• Welsh: moresg f pl, hesg môr f pl, cas gan bladurwr m, glaswellt y tywod m, corswellt y tywod m, merydd m, myrydd m, môr-hesgen f

Further reading

• Ammophila (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ammophila on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Noun

marram (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of murram

Galician

Verb

marram

1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of marrar

Latin

Noun

marram

1. accusative singular of marra

Woiwurrung

Noun

marram

1. Macropus giganteus, eastern grey kangaroos

References

• Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly (2019) Wilam, A Birrarung Story, page 27