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Marla¹

Where it comes from

American back-formation from Marlene, first used in the 1930s.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Hebrew. Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property.

marla²

Where it comes from

From Irish marla, from Middle English marle. Doublet of marl.

noun

  1. Ireland, uncountable Plasticine; modelling clay. Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla, old plasticine with the colours all rolled together into brown.

marla³

noun marlas · mala · maala

  1. Australia A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia.

marla⁴

noun marlas

  1. A unit of area used in the Indian subcontinent, of varying size, but roughly 250 square feet.

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@misc{marla_2026,
  title = {marla},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/marla},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}