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Mary
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Appendix:Variations of "mary"
English
Etymology 1
+am (surah)
thumb|A depiction of Mary, Mother of God, praying in quiet devotion (The Virgin in Prayer by Sassoferrato, 1650 1)
en Marie :inh enm:Marie 1
From en enm Marie, from en fro Marie, from en la Maria, from en grc Μαρία, grc Μαριάμ, from post-Biblical en he - and en arc מַרְיָם Maryām, from en hbo מִרְיָם Miryām, of uncertain meaning. (See the Hebrew entry for more.) en Miriam Marie Maria Mariah.
Alternative forms
en Marie Early New English
Pronunciation
mârʹē RP,GA,CA, en /ˈmɛəɹi/
en en-us-Mary.ogg US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-mary.wav US
en UK
en /ˈmɛːɹɪj/ SSB
en /ˈmɜːɹɪ/ Lancashire,square-nurse
en /ˈmeɾe/ [ˈmeːɾe] /-ɾɪ/ /-ɾi/ Scotland
en /ˈmɛːɾi/ Wales
en /ˈmeːɹi/ AU
mâʹrē NZ
en /ˈmeəɹi/ non-near-square
en /ˈmiəɹi/ near-square
en marry<aa:Mary-marry> ; Merry merry<aa:Mary-merry>
en ɛəɹi 2
Proper noun
s ies
en female Aramaic,Hebrew.
en 1821 Lord Byron Don Juan Canto the Fifth: IV I have a passion for the name of Mary,For once it was a magic sound to me:And still it half calls up the realm of fairyWhere I beheld what never was to be.
en 1830 Mary Russell Mitford Our Village: Cottage Names Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
1905 George M.Cohan, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
For it was Mary; Mary / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was Mary; Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
en 1996 w:Maeve Binchy This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury Hachette UK 2008 9781409105404 They had called their children Ann, Mary, and John as a reaction against their own fancy tricksy names. Both mothers thought these names sadly unimaginative and each blamed the child of the other for the lack of vision and style.
en Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter w:Austin Daily Herald https://www.austindailyherald.com/2009/04/meet-number-16-bus-shelter/ 2009-04-25 For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys. https://web.archive.org/web/20250720181532/https://www.austindailyherald.com/2009/04/meet-number-16-bus-shelter/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221205210834/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/books/review/show-me-a-sign-ann-clare-lezotte.html Meg Medina Meg Medina A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century 2020-04-27 Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).
en The courtroom attack that led to 26 years in prison w:BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3vrwq25r64o 2024-12-11 Deobra Redden, 31, was caught on camera in January jumping over a desk and lunging at Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who was sentencing him in another case. https://web.archive.org/web/20260820235600/https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c3vrwq25r64o 20 August 2026
en Q345 en religion The mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor for believers.
Matthew 1 18 1220 2 Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt.
en biblical Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably:
Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus.
Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
Luke 10 41 42 1297 1 And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her.
en Islam en Maryam Q220716 The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an
en chiefly US gay slang A term of address for a male homosexual. 1925
en nancy nan Thesaurus:male homosexual
en 1941 G. Legman Sex Variants II 1171 Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyone Bessie or Mary, e.g. ‘Oh, Bessie, you're a camp!’ on
en 1985 W. Dynes Homolexis 150 In America in the 1950s,... Mary was often used in the vocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well, Mary...’). on
en Ireland dated A male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
Usage notes
In English, the given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.
Synonyms
mother of Jesus en advocatrix, en Blessed Virgin, en Blessed Virgin Mary, en Christotokos, en Coredemptrix, en Deipara, en Holy Mary, en Holy Mother, en Holy Mother of God, en Madonna, en Maria, en Mater Dei, en Miriam, en Morning Star, en Mother of God, en Mother of Mercy, en Mother of Sorrows, en New Eve, en Our Lady, en Our Lady of Dolors, en Our Lady of Sorrows, en Our Lady of the Seven Dolors, en Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, en Panagia, en Queen of Heaven, en Santa Maria, en Saint Mary, en Sorrowful Mother, en Star of the Sea, en Theotokos, the en Virgin, en Virgin Mary
Coordinate terms
en Amina
Derived terms
0 en Joseph-and-Mary Mary-and-Joseph spotted Mary Blandford St Mary Bloody Mary Hand of Mary Mary Poppins Buckland St Mary Saint Mary Lake Bures St Mary Capel St Mary Immaculate Heart of Mary Queen Mary Land Chadwell St Mary Clyst St Mary Daughter of Mary Donhead St Mary Down St Mary Holy Mary holy moley holy moly Kingston St Mary Lowton St Mary's Mary garden Marian Maryann,Maryanne Mary Ann,Mary Anne Mary Bell order Mary Ellen Mary Gregory Mary Jane Mariel Mariolater Mariolatry Mariology Mary Celeste Marybeth Maryborough Maryknoller Maryland Marylike Marylouise Marymass Maryneal Maryolatry Maryrose Marysole Rosemary Mary-Lou,Mary Lou Mary Poppins-esque Mary Poppinsesque Mary Poppinsy Marys Mount Marystown Marysville Mary Tavy Maryton Marytown Maryville Moll Molly Ottery St Mary Plympton St Mary Port St Mary Pulham St Mary Rose Mary Stretch Saint Mary,Saint-Mary Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary St Mary Cray St Mary Hoo St Mary in the Marsh St. Mary Parish St Mary's Bay St. Mary's County St. Marys River St Mary's,St. Mary's St. Marys,St Marys St. Mary,St Mary,St.-Mary,St-Mary Stoke St Mary Tedburn St Mary Tivetshall St Mary Trimley St Mary Virgin Mary William and Mary Wisbech St Mary
Related terms
en Variants and pet forms Maire Mae Mamie Maria Mariah Marian Mariana Marianne Marie Marilyn Marion Marisa Marissa Marlene Maryann Maryam Maureen May Maya Mayme Mia Moira Mollie Molly Mya Polly
Descendants
1 yue Mary
1 ceb Mary Marie
1 da Mary
1 fo Marý
1 haw Mele Mere
1 ja マリー Marī
1 cmn 瑪麗 Mǎlì 瑪莉 Mǎlì 瑪利 Mǎlì
1 gv Mayree
1 mi Mere Meri
1 no Mary
1 gd Màiri
1 sv Mary
1 ty Mere
1 tpi meri
1 th แมรี
1 tum Mariya
Translations
female given name
Afrikaans: af Maria
Albanian: sq Mëri f, sq Mria, sq Mrikë, sq Maria,
Arabic: ar مَرْيَم f, ar مَارِي f
Aramaic:
Hebrew script: arc מרים maryam
Syriac: arc ܡܪܝܡ maryam
Armenian: hy Մարիամ
Asturian: ast María f
Basque: eu Miren
Belarusian: be Мары́я f
Bengali: bn মরিয়ম f
Breton: br Mari, br Mair
Bulgarian: bg Мари́я f
Catalan: ca Maria
Cherokee: chr ᎺᎵ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 瑪麗 Mǎlì, cmn 瑪莉 Mǎlì
Coptic: cop ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ
Cornish: kw Marya
Czech: cs Marie f
Danish: da Maria, da Marie
Dutch: nl Maria
Erzya: myv Марё
Esperanto: eo Mario
Estonian: et Maarja
Faroese: fo Maria f
Finnish: fi Maria, fi Marja
French: fr Marie f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Maria
Galician: gl María f
Georgian: ka მარიამ, ka მარია
German: de Maria f
Greek: el Μαρία, el Μαίρη transliteration from English
Greenlandic: kl Maalia
Hausa: ha Maryamu
Hawaiian: haw Malia
Hebrew: he מִרְיָם f miryám
Hindi: hi मैरी f, hi मेरी f, hi मरियम f, hi मारिया f
Hungarian: hu Mária
Icelandic: is María f
Indonesian: id Mariam
Irish: ga Máire f
Italian: it Maria f
Japanese: ja メアリー Mearī, ja マリー Marī
Khmer: km ម៉ារី
Korean: ko ^마리아
Latin: la Maria f
Latvian: cognate lv Marija f, transliteration lv Mērija f
Lithuanian: lt Marija f
Macedonian: mk Ма́рија f
Malay: ms Maryam, ms Mariam, ms Meriam
Maltese: mt Marija f
Manx: gv Mayree, gv Moirrey, gv Voirrey
Māori: mi Mere
Neapolitan: nap Maria
Norwegian: no Maria
Occitan: oc Maria f
Old Nubian: onw ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ
Persian: fa مریم maryam, fa ماری mâri
Polish: pl Maria f, pl Maryja f
Portuguese: pt Maria f
Romanian: ro Maria f
Russian: cognate ru Мари́я f, ru Ма́рья f; transliteration ru Мэ́ри f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Màiri, gd Mhairi
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Марија f
Latin: sh Marija f
Sicilian: scn Marìa f
Slovak: sk Mária f
Slovene: sl Maríja f
Spanish: es María f
Swedish: sv Maria, sv Maja
Tagalog: tl Maria f
Thai: th แมรี
Turkish: tr Meryem
Ukrainian: uk Марі́я f
Vietnamese: vi Mary, vi Maria
Walloon: wa Mareye f, wa Maroye f old, wa Maria f
Welsh: cy Mair f, cy Mari f
Yakut: sah Маарыйа
Mary, mother of Jesus Madonna Mother of God Our Lady Queen of Heaven Saint Mary Theotokos Virgin Mary
Note: Translations for Mary's various titles and appellations should go in the respective entries.
Afrikaans: af Maria
Albanian: sq Maria f, sq Meria f, sq Zonja e Bekuar f
Amharic: am ማርያም f
Arabic: ar مَرْيَم f
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: syc ܡܪܝܡ f maryam
Armenian: hy Մարիամ
Asturian: ast María f
Azerbaijani: az Məryəm
Basque: eu Maria
Belarusian: be Мары́я f
Bengali: bn মরিয়ম f, bn বিবি মরিয়ম
Breton: br Mari, br Itron Varia
Bulgarian: bg Мари́я f
Caló: rmq Maria
Catalan: ca Maria f
Cherokee: chr ᎺᎵ
Chichewa: ny Maria
Chinese:
Literary Chinese: lzh-lit 末豔lzh check whether this should be lzh-lit ("Literary Chinese") or lzh ("Classical Chinese", < c. 200 AD)
Mandarin: cmn 馬利亞 Mǎlìyǎ, cmn 聖母瑪利亞 Shèngmǔ Mǎlìyà
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb Mariama
Ngazidja Comorian: zdj Mariama
Coptic: cop ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ
Cornish: kw Maria Wynn f
Czech: cs Marie f
Danish: da Maria
Dutch: nl Maria f
Esperanto: eo Sankta Mario
Estonian: et Maarja
Farefare: gur Amaari, gur Amaria, gur Maria
Faroese: fo Maria
Finnish: fi Maria
French: fr Marie f
Galician: gl María f
Georgian: ka მარიამ, ka ღვთისმშობელი
German: de Maria f
Gothic: got 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰 m Marja
Greek: el Μαρία f
Ancient Greek: grc Μαρία f, grc Μαριάμ f
Hausa: ha Maryamu
Hawaiian: haw Maria
Hebrew: he מִרְיָם f Miryám
Hindi: hi मैरी f, hi मेरी f, hi मरियम f, hi मुक़द्दस कुंवारी मरयम f, hi मारिया f
Hungarian: hu Mária
Icelandic: is María
Indonesian: id Maria
Irish: ga Muire f
Italian: it Maria f
Japanese: ja マリア Maria
Kazakh: kk Мәриям
Khmer: km ម៉ារី
Korean: ko ^마리아, ko ^성모 ^마리아
Latin: la Maria f, la Coredemptrix f, la advocatrix f
Latvian: lv Marija f
Lithuanian: lt Marija f
Macedonian: mk Марија f
Malay: ms Maryam used by Muslims, ms Maria used by Christians
Malayalam: ml മറിയം
Maltese: mt Marija f, mt Sidtna Marija
Manchu: mnc ᠮᠠᡵᡳᠶᠠ
Manx: gv Moirrey
Māori: mi Meri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Maria
Nynorsk: nn Maria
Old English: ang Marīa f
Old Nubian: onw ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ
Ottawa: otw Maaniinh f
Persian: fa مریم Maryam
Polish: pl Maryja f
Portuguese: pt Maria f
Romani:
Welsh Romani: rmw 'Måri Råni f, rmw Me-Dir-Devleski Råni f
Romanian: ro Maria f
Russian: ru Мари́я f
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Márjá
Sanskrit: sa मरीयमि, sa मारिया f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Moire, gd Muire f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ма̀рија f
Latin: sh Màrija f
Sicilian: scn Marìa f
Slovak: sk Mária f
Slovene: sl Maríja f
Spanish: es María f
Swahili: sw Maryamu
Swedish: sv Maria
Tagalog: tl Maria
Thai: th มารี
Tumbuka: tum Mariya
Turkish: tr Meryem
Ukrainian: uk Марі́я f
Urdu: ur مریم f maryam
Vietnamese: vi Maria Catholic, vi Mary Protestant
Welsh: cy Mair f
Yao (Africa): yao Maliya
Yoruba: yo Màríà
19th sura of the Qur'an Maryam
Etymology 2
en Q5713 :bor tk:Mary
+, Turkmenistan
+ Region
en tk Mary, from en fa-cls مَرْو. en Merv Marw Marv.
Pronunciation
en /ˈmɑ(ː).ɹɪ/
Proper noun
en Q5713en city/capital r:pref/Mary in southeastern c/Turkmenistan.
en Q487401en region in southeastern c/Turkmenistan.
Synonyms
historical names for the city See en Merv
Related terms
en Merv
Translations
city in Turkmenistan
Azerbaijani: az Marı
Belarusian: be Мары
Greek: el Μαρύ
Ancient Greek: grc Μαργιᾱνή
Japanese: ja マル Mari
Latin: la Margiāna
Russian: ru Мары
Turkish: tr Merv
Turkmen: tk Mary
Ukrainian: uk Мари
region in Turkmenistan
Anagrams
en amry ARMY Army Mayr Myra Yarm army yarm
References
Mary n1
en Biblical characters Qur'an Titles
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb en Mary, from ceb fro Marie, from ceb la Maria, from ceb grc Μαρία, grc Μαριάμ, from ceb arc מַרְיָם maryām or ceb he מִרְיָם miryām, of uncertain origin.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb female English < Hebrew
Chinese
Etymology
From yue en Mary. zh
Pronunciation
yue /mɛː⁵⁵ ɹiː²¹/
Noun
zh nounyue nouns lemmas
zh Hong Kong Cantonese colloquial euphemism sex doll; love doll c:隻
zh 2009-07-31 zh:周秀娜推出人型攬枕尹蓁希擔心男人有歪念 Wen Wei Po https://web.archive.org/web/20230213151706/http://paper.wenweipo.com/2009/07/31/EN0907310012.htm
w:zh:白韻琴\白韻琴 就 指 人形 攬枕 如同 吹氣 公仔 M{m}a{e1}ry{i4},她 笑 說:「噉\咁{gam2} M{m}a{e1}ry{i4} 醜樣 啲\D{di1}。」 Pamela Peck says that a dakimakura is just like a blow-up sex doll. She jokingly said that “Well, a sex doll is uglier” C
zh https://web.archive.org/web/20210621163533/https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20171224/EYSP3VJDCHUW6KRPF77NHJH5LY/ Apple Daily 2017-12-24 zh:【Chill人生活】聖誕燈飾、倒數、禮物 邊樣最無謂?
@Cherry 指 自己 收 過 吹氣 M{m}a{1}ry{i4},「淘寶 訂{deng6} 嗰啲,明明 個 頭 吹 脹 咗 個 頭 都 係噉\係咁{gam2} 跌 落嚟,我 落 到 樓下 見 到{dou3-2} 垃圾{saap3}桶 即刻{kaak1} du{a}mp{2} 咗 佢。」 Cherry said she has received an inflatable sex doll before. “The ones you get on Taobao, the head keeps falling off even it has been inflated. I threw it away once I got downstairs and saw a rubbish bin” C-HK
zh https://web.archive.org/web/20241001090637/https://www.singpao.com.hk/index.php?fi=loadpdf&t=news&id=8968 2018-8-12 B08 Sing Pao 布簾後的世界 非一般性商店 I
無論如何,如果 認為 性商店 只有 震蛋{daan6-2}、假陽具、M{m}a{e1}ry{i4} 和 避孕套,就 只 能 說 一 句「少年,你 太 年輕 了」。 In any case, if you think sex shops only have vibrators, dildos, sex dolls and condoms, then one could only say that you're too naive. C-LIT
zh 2020-11-26 zh:是枝裕和電影《援膠女郎》變真人真事 哈薩克健身教練娶吹氣公仔 zh:《香港01》 https://www.hk01.com/article/554272
想不到{dou3} 現實 生活 中,亦 有 位 男子 愛 上 私家「M{m}a{e1}ry{i4}」,二人 結成 正式 夫婦,男方 仲 話「太太」有 正當 職業,平時 會 講 粗口,果真 戲如人生。 One could not expect that there was also a man who fall in love with his private sex doll in real life. They are married officially, the man even said his “wife” has a proper job and often swears. Indeed life is like a box of chocolates. C
zh terms written in foreign scripts
Danish
Etymology
From da en Mary. A variant of the traditional Danish da Marie.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female
References
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 092 females with the given name Mary have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 10 August 2011.
Norwegian
Etymology
From no en Mary. A variant of the traditional Norwegian no Maria or no Marie.
Proper noun
no female
References
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, 82-521-4483-7
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 879 females with the given name Mary living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1920 . Accessed on 10 August 2011.
Swedish
Etymology
From sv en Mary as a variant of the traditional Swedish sv Maria. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1808.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Mary.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
sv 2004 w:Majgull Axelsson Den jag aldrig var Prisma 9151843161 17 Hon visste att hon hade vuxit upp i ett vitt hus, att hennes mor hade döpt henne till Mary och att hennes far hade kallat henne Marie och att hon långt upp i tonåren hade lekt att hon levde två liv, att hon hade ett andra jag som vaknade när hon somnade och somnade nät hon vaknade.
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 10 519 females with the given name Mary living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 10 August 2011.
Anagrams
sv amry myra
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Mary + 1 Maria
Pronunciation
Mery +
Proper noun
meri
tl female English
Related terms
tl Mama Mary
Turkmen
tk:
tk:+ welaýaty
Etymology
tk fa-cls مَرْو
Proper noun
tk proper noun Cyrillic Мары
tk Mary Q5713,Q487401