marron
Dutch (Brabantic)
/mɑˈrɔn/
noun
Definitions
- Maroon descendant of escaped African slaves in the Americas or Caribbean, escaped slave
Etymology
Borrowed from French marron (fugitive, feral, brown, chestnut) derived from Spanish, Castilian cimarrón (wild, feral, fugitive) derived from Taino simaran (wild).
Origin
Taino
simaran
Gloss
wild
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- maroon English
- marrone Italian
- marron French
- marronnage French
- marronnier French
- cimarrón Spanish, Castilian
- marrón Spanish, Castilian
- mate cimarrón Spanish, Castilian
- marrom Portuguese
- マロン Japanese
- marrón Galician
- maro Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- marrón Asturian
- simaran Taino