marquess

Alternative forms

 * (the most common form)

Etymology
See for etymology. Note also that is very unusual in the English language in that it ends in  but is a masculine term. The title is granted only to males (the female equivalent is ).

Noun

 * 1)  a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.
 * 2)  A marchioness.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَرْكِيز
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: markiz
 * Belarusian: маркі́з
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: марки́з
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: markis
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: markizo
 * Estonian: markii
 * Faroese: markgreivi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: marquis, marchis
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: markgreifi
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: marchensis, marchiō, marchisus
 * Latvian: marķīzs, markgrāfs
 * Lithuanian: markizas
 * Macedonian: марки́з
 * Manchu: ᡥᡝᠣ
 * Maori: mākuihi
 * Middle English: marquis, markis
 * Norman: martchis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: marki
 * Nynorsk: marki
 * Old English: eorl
 * Ottoman Turkish: ماركی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: маркиз
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, markgreve
 * Tagalog: markes
 * Thai: มาร์ควิส
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: маркі́з
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (侯爵)