Maria

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , corresponding to the 🇨🇬. .

Pronunciation

 * (also especially the variant "Mariah")
 * (also especially the variant "Mariah")

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
 * Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
 * 1) * 1776, Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
 * By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
 * , mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.
 * , mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.
 * , mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.

Statistics

 * According to, Maria is the 91th most common female given name for US births in 2022. According to the 2010 United States Census, Maria is the 7395th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4500 individuals. Maria is most common among Hispanic/Latino (58.20%) and White (31.93%) individuals.

Proper noun

 * 1) A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.

Proper noun

 * 1) A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary biblical character
 * 1) Mary biblical character

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) the Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ
 * 2)  any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha
 * 1)  any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha

Etymology
From, from , , from , corresponding to the. A Latinate variant of the vernacular Danish.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character

Etymology
From Vulgate, from , , from , corresponding to the.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character, mother of Jesus
 * 2) Mary Biblical character, Mary Magdalene
 * 3) . Variants include, , , , , , , and numerous others

Etymology
From, from , , from , corresponding to the. A Latinate variant of.

Usage notes
Matronymics
 * son of Maria: Mariuson
 * daughter of Maria: Mariudóttir

Etymology 1
From Vulgate, from , , from , corresponding to.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character

Usage notes

 * This has been a common given name in Finland since the Middle Ages and is a popular middle name today.

Etymology
From Vulgate, from , , from , corresponding to the. A Latinate variant of the vernacular French.

Etymology
From Vulgate, from , , from , corresponding to the.

Usage notes

 * The genitive form Mariä is restricted to Catholic contexts, and chiefly to the Virgin Mary. It is now very rare outside of fixed terms like . In contemporary German, the genitive Mariens is also widely restricted to the Virgin, while the only form commonly used for other persons is Marias.
 * In historic texts the name is often declined as in Latin. See.

Etymology
From the 19th century translation of the Bible into Hawaiian, from, , corresponding to the.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character
 * 2) * 2012 Baibala Hemolele, Mataio 1:18 (tr. KJV Matthew 1:18):
 * "haw"

- Penei hoʻi ka hānau ʻana o Iesū Kristo: I hoʻopalau ʻē ʻia kona makuwahine ʻo Maria na Iosepa, ʻaʻole naʻe lāua i pili, a ʻikea ʻo ia, ua hāpai na ka ʻUhane Hemolele.


 * 1)  (but possibly pronounced like Malia)

Etymology
From Vulgate, from , , from , corresponding to the. .

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character, mother of Jesus
 * 2) Mary Biblical character, Mary Magdalene

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary; Miriam biblical figures
 * 1) Mary; Miriam biblical figures

Noun

 * 1)  cannabis, marijuana

Synonyms

 * (from )

Usage notes

 * Variably causes syntactic doubling in the phrase Ave Maria 'Hail Mary':.

Etymology
From, , from , corresponding to the.

Pronunciation

 * Note: attested as Mariā, as in Ancient Greek, in early Christian poets, but commonly Marīa from the 6th century onwards (see quotations).
 * Note: attested as Mariā, as in Ancient Greek, in early Christian poets, but commonly Marīa from the 6th century onwards (see quotations).
 * Note: attested as Mariā, as in Ancient Greek, in early Christian poets, but commonly Marīa from the 6th century onwards (see quotations).

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary mother of Jesus
 * 1) Mary mother of Jesus

Descendants

 * Old
 * Italo-Dalmatian
 * West Iberian
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 * Borrowings



Etymology
From, from , , from , corresponding to the. Recorded as a given name in Norway since the Middle Ages.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character

Etymology
From, from , , from , corresponding to the 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mary.

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  Mary
 * 1)  Mary

Etymology
From, from , from , , from , corresponding to the Hebrew. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mary mother of Jesus

Etymology
, from, , from , corresponding to the.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character

Etymology
From, from , , from , corresponding to the. First recorded in Sweden in 1344.

Proper noun

 * 1) Mary Biblical character

Usage notes

 * Traditionally popular as a given name in Sweden, Maria was (for example) the most common first name of women born in the 1960s. It is also a popular middle name.

Etymology
, from, from , , from , corresponding to the.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mary

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mary