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Mar may refer to:
- March, the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar
- Mar, an ancient division of Scotland
- Mar, a slang word in english for the affirmative or yes. Coupled with "ver" for exclamation as in "vermar"
- Mar,ܡܪܝ meaning father in Syriac. A title of address for prelates of the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syro-Malabar Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
- It can also be the title of a Saint, for example "Mar Toma" or "Mar Thoma" = Saint Thomas.
- Also derived from the same Aramaic word, Mar was the title of the Exilarch (Reish Galuta), the head of the Jewish Community in Babylon which enjoyed considerable authonomy.
- Derived from the above, Mar in modern Hebrew as spoken in Israel is the equivalent of "Mr.". Though there is no etymological connection, similarity with the English term helped its spread.
- Martha was originally the female form of the same, "ta" or "tha" being the Aramaic ending of female nouns. The Biblical charcater of that name was "The Lady" in Aramaic, and her being a saint made it a widespread female first name in Christian countries and cultures.
The acronym MAR may refer to:
- MAR, the ISO code for Morocco
- MAR, the abbreviation for Modified Aspect Ratio. See Aspect ratio (image).
- Mission Analysis Room, an area where spacecraft engineers conduct routine trending and anomaly investigation
- Matrix attachment regions are sequences that are important to chromosomal structure in eukaryotes
- Multiple Access Return, a TDRSS data service
- MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance, a manga series
- Memory Address Register, a hardware register used to keep the address of a memory location in which data are to be written
- MAR, the Minorities at Risk Project at the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)
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