May

Appendix:Variations of "may" English <dab!> 1 right 260 Auguste Oleffe - The Month of May - 1909-JJJ - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK).jpg The Month of May by Auguste Oleffe (1908) In the merry month of May - Ehrhart. LCCN2011645701.jpg An illustration depicting characters dancing around a maypole (1905) Alternative forms en Ma abbreviation female given name en Mae Etymology 1 en :inh enm:May<ety:bor<fro:mai<ety:der<la:Maius<id:May>>>>> 1 From en enm May, enm Mai, from en fro mai, from en la Maius Maia's month, from la Maia, a Roman earth goddess. Pronunciation mā, en /meɪ/ en en-us-May.ogg California,monophthongized en eɪ 1 en may Mei Proper noun ~ s en Q119The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June. en mul:5<id:Q119> en Fifth Month Quakerism en calendar year<id:Q3186692> ; year<id:Q577> en January<id:Q108> February<id:Q109> March<id:Q110> April<id:Q118> June<id:Q120> July<id:Q121> August<id:Q122> September<id:Q123> October<id:Q124> November<id:Q125> December<id:Q126> Before 1789, "Barbara Allen (song) Bonny Barbara Allen," traditional ballad, collected in Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittridge (1886), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. II, part II, p. 277: All in the merry month of May, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen. en Frank Jacobs Welcome to Stanistan w:Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/01/welcome-to-stanistan/ 2014-07-01 At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU. https://web.archive.org/web/20251021010603/https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/01/welcome-to-stanistan/ 21 October 2025 en Rachel Dobkin Significant parts of the Constitution were quietly removed from the Congress website w:The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/constitution-removed-congress-website-restored-b2803241.html 2025-08-06 In May, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told reporters the Trump administration is “looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus for migrants under claims of an “invasion.” https://web.archive.org/web/20250807051609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/constitution-removed-congress-website-restored-b2803241.html 7 August 2025 en female, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning. en 1856 w:E. D. E. N. Southworth The Widow's Son T. B. Peterson 1867 210 I will not send Owen's Lily May to the almshouse." "Lily―what?" demanded Mrs. Morley rather sharply, for she was half provoked with what she mentally called Amy's whim of keeping the outcast child when she might send it to the asylum. "Lily May," said Amy, smiling. "Her name is Mary, and we called her first Little Mary, and then Little May. But Owen calls her Lily May." en 1982 w:Ruth Rendell The Fever Tree and Other Stories Hutchinson 0091497302 119 Their parents named them June and May because their birthdays occurred in those months. May was like the time of year in which she had been born, changeable, chilly and warm by turns, sullen yet able to know and show loveliness that couldn't last. en 2010 w:Margaret Forster Isa & May Chatto & Windus 9780701184667 5 It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel. en Hilary Bird Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act w:CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-aboriginal-font-official-id-1.3630353 2016-06-13 Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents. https://web.archive.org/web/20160613150454/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-aboriginal-font-official-id-1.3630353 2016-06-13 en Middle English. Theresa May, former British prime minister. en number of places c/USA: en former settlement co/Amador County c/California. en ucomm co/Lemhi County s/Idaho. en ucomm co/McDonald County s/Missouri. en small town co/Harper County s/Oklahoma. en ucomm co/Brown County s/Texas. en ucomm co/Pocahontas County s/West Virginia. en A number of <<townships>> in the <<c/USA>>, listed under May Township. Usage notes May (or Mae) is often used in conjoined names (e.g., Lillie Mae, Katie Mae, Fannie Mae). Derived terms en Terms derived from May Black May May-White syndrome Bloody May Cambus o' May have climbed May Hill Italian may King of May,King of the May May the Fourth maybloom Maybot maybush Mayite Maymester maythorn Maytide mayweed Lady of the May Lord of May,Lord of the May May 7th May and January mayblossom May and December May apple,mayapple May Ball May-bean May beetle May-bird,maybird May rose May bishop May blob May bloom May blossom May bug May Bumps may bush maybush May butter Maycember May-chafter May-cherry May-chick May-chit May curlew May Day May-December May dew May-drink may duke,mayduke May examination Mayey,Mayie Mayfair May-fern May fish,mayfish May flower mayflower May fly,May-fly,mayfly May fowl May-gad May game May gowan May grape s May grass May gray May-haw,mayhaw May highflyer May Hill May-house Maying,maying May-jack May-king May lady May laws May lily May-lord May Marian May meetings May-morn,May-morning May Morning May parr May peal May pole,maypole May-pop May queen May Queen May races May Revolution May-roll May-rose May-sel May-September romance May-skate May skin Mays Landing<qq:from surname> May-sucker may tag,maytag May-term May thorn May-Thurner syndrome Maytime may tree May Uprising may-weed May-week,May Week May whaap May whaup May wine May wool May-worm Maywort, maywort (Cruciata laevipes species) Memphis in May mid-May ne'er cast a clout till May be out Queen of May,Queen of the May sell in May and go away Sun of May Related terms en Cinco de Mayo Descendants bi mei pih Mieh tpi Mei bn মে 1 my မေ 1 ny Meyi 1 prs می mey 1 ha Mayu 1 haw Mei 1 hi मई 1 mi Mei 1 mh Māe 1 mkj mehi 1 sw Mei 1 tkl Me 1 to Mē 1 1 Translations fifth month of the Gregorian calendar Abaza: abq май Abkhaz: ab лаҵара Afrikaans: af Mei Alabama: akz hasiholtina istatáɬɬàapi, akz Meyka Albanian: sq maj m Alutiiq: ems Nikllit Iraluat Amharic: am መይ Apache: Western Apache: apw Itsáh Hashkēē Arabic: ar مَايُو m, ar أَيَّار m Egyptian Arabic: arz مايو m māyu Hijazi Arabic: acw مايو m māyu, acw ميي m mēy Aragonese: an mayo m Aramaic: arc אִיָּר iyar m Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܐܝܼܵܪ īyar m Classical Syriac: syc ܐܝܪ ʾīyār Turoyo: tru ܐܝـܝܰܪ m Armenian: hy մայիս Old Armenian: xcl մայիս Aromanian: rup maiu Asturian: ast mayu m Azerbaijani: az may Basque: eu maiatz Belarusian: be тра́вень m, be май m Bengali: bn মে Bikol: Central Bikol: bcl Mayo Bislama: bi mei Breton: br Mae, br miz Mae Bulgarian: bg май m Burmese: my မေ, my ငါးလ Catalan: ca maig m Chechen: ce Стигалкъекъа-бутт Cherokee: chr ᎠᏂᏍᎬᏘ Chichewa: ny Meyi Chinese: Cantonese: yue 五月 ng5 jyut6 Dungan: dng вуйүә Hakka: hak 五月 ńg-ngie̍t Hokkien: nan-hbl 五月 gō͘-goe̍h, gō͘-ge̍h, gō͘-gōe Mandarin: cmn 五月 wǔyuè Chukchi: ckt мимлыръылин mimlyrʺylin, ckt имԓыръыԓин imḷyrʺyḷin Chuvash: cv Ҫу Circassian: West Circassian: ady жъоныгъуакӏ Coptic: cop ⲙⲁⲓⲟⲥ Cornish: kw Me m Corsican: co maghju Cree: Montagnais: moe nissi-pishimᵘ Crimean Tatar: crh mayıs, crh qural ay Czech: cs květen m Dakota: dak Wožupiwi Danish: da maj c Dhivehi: dv މެއި Dusun: Central Dusun: dtp Mikat Dutch: nl mei, nl bloeimaand m archaic Old Dutch: odt winnamānoth Dzongkha: dz སྤྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ། Emilian: egl mâż m Erzya: myv панжиков Esperanto: eo majo, eo Majo Estonian: et mai, et maikuu, et lehekuu Ewe: ee Damɛ, ee Mai Faroese: fo mai m Fijian: fj May Finnish: fi toukokuu French: fr mai m Frisian: North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: frr mei m Mooring: frr krölemoune m, frr moi m Saterland Frisian: stq Moai West Frisian: fy maaie, fy blommemoanne Friulian: fur Mai Galician: gl maio m Georgian: ka მაისი German: de Mai m, de Wonnemond m Bavarian: bar Moa Gilbertese: gil Mei Greek: el Μάιος m, el Μάης m Greenlandic: kl maaji Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: gug jasypo Guianese Creole: gcr mé Haitian Creole: ht me Hausa: ha Mayu Hawaiian: haw Mei Hebrew: he מַאי may Hindi: hi मई f Hungarian: hu május Icelandic: is maí m, is maímánuður m Ido: io mayo Indonesian: id Mei Interlingua: ia maio Inupiaq: ik Nuġġiaqtuġvik, ik Suppivik Irish: ga Bealtaine f Italian: it maggio Jamaican Creole: jam Mie Japanese: ja 五月 ごがつ, gogatsu, ja 皐月 さつき, satsuki Javanese: jv Mèi Kabuverdianu: kea maiu Kalmyk: xal хөн сар Kambera: xbr wulang lima Kannada: kn ಮೇ ತಿಂಗಳು Kapampangan: pam Pángalimang búlan, pam Máyu Kashubian: csb môj Kazakh: kk мамыр Khmer: km ឧសភា Kikuyu: ki Mũgira Njara Kongo: kg mayi Korean: ko 오월(五月) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb ئایار Northern Kurdish: kmr gulan Kyrgyz: ky май Ladin: lld mé Lao: lo ເດືອນພຶດສາພາ, lo ພຶດສາພາ Latin: la maius Latvian: lv maijs m Lezgi: lez тӏул Limburgish: li Mei Lingala: ln máyí Lithuanian: lt gegužė f, lt gegužis m Livonian: liv maij, liv lēḑkū Lombard: lmo maasc Louisiana Creole: lou mê Low German: nds Mai m, nds Maimaand m Luxembourgish: lb Mee m, lb Päischtmount m Macedonian: mk мај m Malay: ms Mei Malayalam: ml മേയ് Maltese: mt Mejju m Manchu: mnc ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ Māori: mi Haratua, mi Mei Mingrelian: xmf მესი Mirandese: mwl Maio m Mòcheno: mhn moi m Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn тавдугаар сар Navajo: nv Tʼą́ą́tsoh Neapolitan: nap maio, nap majo Northern Sotho: nso Mopitlo Norwegian: Bokmål: nb mai m Nynorsk: nn mai m Occitan: oc mai m Odia: or ମ‌ଇ Ojibwe: oj zaagibagaa-giizis Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu трѣвьнъ m Old English: ang þrimilce Oromo: om Ebla Ossetian: os май Pannonian Rusyn: rsk май m Pennsylvania German: pdc Moi Persian: Dari: prs می Iranian Persian: fa-ira مِه Plautdietsch: pdt Mei m Polish: pl maj m Portuguese: pt maio m Punjabi: pa ਮਈ m Rapa Nui: rap Vai Tu'u Potu Réunion Creole French: rcf mé Romanian: ro mai, popular ro florar Romansh: rm mai m, rm maitg m, rm matg m, rm meg m Russian: ru май m Sami: Kildin Sami: sjd вӯссьма̄нн Northern Sami: se miessemánnu Skolt Sami: sms vueʹssmään Ter Sami: sjt вы̄ссьма̄нна Samoan: sm me Sardinian: sc magiu, sc maju, sc mazu Scots: sco Mey Scottish Gaelic: gd Cèitean m, abbreviation gd Cèit Sekani: sek ʼUtʼǫ̀ʼ kùnuyehde Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh мај m Latin: sh maj m, sh svibanj m Croatia Shona: sn Chivabvu Sicilian: scn maiu m Sinhalese: si මැයි Slovak: sk máj m Slovene: sl máj m Sotho: st Motsheanong Southern Altai: alt май Spanish: es mayo m Sundanese: su Méi Swahili: sw Mei Swazi: ss íNkhwekhwéti Swedish: sv maj c Tagalog: tl Mayo Tahitian: ty mē Tajik: tg май Tatar: tt май Telugu: te మే Tetum: tet maiu Thai: th พฤษภาคม Tibetan: bo ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། Tok Pisin: tpi me Tongan: to Mē Turkish: tr mayıs Turkmen: tk maý Udmurt: udm куартолэзь Ukrainian: uk тра́вень m Urdu: ur مَئی f Uyghur: ug ماي, ug بەشىنچى ئاي Uzbek: uz may Venetan: vec majo Vietnamese: vi tháng năm Volapük: vo mayul Võro: vro lehekuu Walloon: wa may Welsh: cy Mai m Winnebago: win Mąą hitawus hii wiira Wolof: wo Mee Yakut: sah Ыам ыйа Yiddish: yi מײַ n Yup'ik: esu Qusiirvik Zazaki: zza Gulane Zulu: zu uNhlaba, zu uMeyi Zuni: zun Sow-a:ne, zun Yachun Kwa'shi'amme abbreviation of the month above Armenian: hy մյս Basque: eu mai. Belarusian: be тра Czech: cs kvě Finnish: fi touko, fi toukok. Georgian: ka მაი. Greek: el Μάι, el Μαΐ Hungarian: hu máj. Italian: it mag., it mag Kazakh: kk мам. Lithuanian: lt geg. Portuguese: pt mai. m Serbo-Croatian: Latin: sh svi m Croatia Spanish: es may., es may Tagalog: tl May., tl May Thai: th พ.ค. Turkish: tr May Ukrainian: uk трав. Vietnamese: vi thg 5 hawthorn or its blossoms Greek: el λευκάκανθα f given name Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 梅 Hebrew: he מַאי may, he מַאיָה máya Hungarian: hu Maja Latvian: lv Maija Macedonian: mk Маја f Russian: ru Ма́йя f Slovene: sl Máj m, sl Mája f Swedish: sv Maj f, sv May f See also Etymology 2 The surname is converged from several origins: As an English surname, from en enm May, a pet form of en Matthew (see en Mayhew). As an English, en nl -, en de -, en pl -, and Jewish surname, from the name of the month. Also as an English surname, occasionally a pet form of en Mary or en Margaret. Also as an English surname, from the obsolete noun en may kinsman, from en ang maga son son, relative. Also as an English surname, from obsolete en enm mei physician, a borrowing from en ang mege, from en la medicus. See en Mee. As an en ga - surname, Anglicized from ga Ó Miadhaigh descendant of Miadhach, a name derived from ga miadh honor. As a en fr - surname, shortened from en Lemay, en Dumay. Also as a French surname, from a derivative of la Marius, similar to en Mario. As a Jewish surname, from the town en Mayen in Germany. As a en zh - surname, from zh 麥 (see en Mai) and zh 梅) (see en Mei). As an Amerindian (Mexico) surname of en myn - origin, from und maay cloven hoof, originally "young deer." Proper noun s en surname en. Anagrams en amy Amy MYA Mya Yam mya yam en diminutives of female given names eponyms en Months Cebuano Etymology From ceb en May, from ceb enm -, from ceb ang -, from ceb fro mai, from ceb la maius Maia's month, from la Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from ceb ine-pro *magya she who is great, from ceb ine-pro - base ine-pro *meg- great. Proper noun ceb proper noun ceb female English 2018 — Gravinez, Sheila C., Super Blowout: Gugma Naumol sa Ospital (13 October), SuperBalita ceb Maanyag, tisay, mapaubsanon, ug maalamon ang pipila sa mga hiyas ni Flora May “Tisay” Trocio nga nagustohan ni Jum Kenneth Alcover. ceb English Middle French Noun m May (month) Descendants fr mai frm Months Norwegian Etymology From no en May. Proper noun no proper noun no female Swedish Etymology From sv en May. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-May.wav Proper noun c sv female Tagalog Etymology 1 tl :bor en:May + 1 Pronunciation Mey + Proper noun mey tl female English Etymology 2 tl Mayo. Alternative forms tl May. Proper noun + tl Mayo: en May tl Ene Peb Mar Abr Hun Hul Ago Set Okt Nob Dis Turkish Noun tr noun tr Mayıs May tr Oca Şub Mar Nis Haz Tem Ağu Eyl Eki Kas Ara Vietnamese Etymology From vi may lucky. Compare vi Hạnh with the same meanings. Pronunciation vi may Proper noun vi female