mare

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mare [mare maria mares] BrE [meə(r)] NAmE [mer] noun
a female horse or ↑donkey
compare ↑brood mare, ↑filly, ↑stallion
Idiom: ↑mare's nest

Word Origin:
n. Old English mearh ‘horse’, mere ‘mare’, from a Germanic base with cognates in Celtic languages meaning ‘stallion’. The sense ‘male horse’ died out at the end of the Middle English period.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  maria, female horse