מַכָּר, acquaintance, friend. Y. Gitt. III, 45ᵃ ויש מ׳ לעני has the poor man a friend?, i.e., is he who separates the poor man’s tithes permitted to reserve them for a certain person?—Pl. מַכָּרִים, constr. מַכָּרֵי. Ib. במ׳ כהונה וכ׳ the Mishnah speaks of friends of priests or Levites (to whom the owner is in the habit of giving the priestly shares); Bab. Gitt. 30ᵃ. Ib. במ׳ לא קתני (sub. כהונה) the Mishnah does not distinctly speak of friends. Ḥull. 133ᵃ; a. fr.