मार

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) killing
 * 2) a beating, fight
 * 3) target; shot, strike, goal
 * 4) loss, grief
 * 1) loss, grief
 * 1) loss, grief

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (whence ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) (√मृ) killing, destroying

Noun

 * 1) death, pestilence
 * 2) slaying, killing (compare पशु-म्°)
 * 3) an obstacle, hindrance
 * 4) the passion of love, god of love
 * 5)  the Destroyer, Evil One (who tempts men to indulge their passions and is the great enemy of the बुद्ध and his religion; four मारs are enumerated in Dharmas. 80, viz. स्कन्ध-, क्लेश-, देवपुत्र-, and मृत्यु-म्°; but the later Buddhist theory of races of gods led to the figment of millions of मारs ruled over by a chief मार)
 * 6) the thorn-apple L.
 * 7) pestilence (also personified as the goddess of death and identified with दुर्गा)